Process Improvement Quote by Gene Kim

“Feedback loops not only enable quick detection and recovery of problems, they also inform us on how to prevent these problems from occurring again…

— Gene Kim

“The Complexity Trap: Every problem gets solved by adding more …more meetings, more approval, more process. Until the solution becomes worse than the problem.”

— Greg Born

“Having a process that ensures problems are brought to the surface, and their root causes diagnosed, assures that continual improvements occur.”

— Ray Dalio

Process improvement programs are like teaching people how to fish. Strategy maps and scorecards teach people where to fish.

— Robert S. Kaplan

“Rather than micro-managing to resolve every problem, create the right atmosphere, process, and system that facilitate effective problem solving.”

— Assegid Habtewold

“a process that ensures problems are brought to the surface, and their root causes diagnosed, assures that continual improvements occur.”

— Ray Dalio

Process improvement is most valuable in raising the floor of a community's practice.

— Fred Brooks

“our goal is to create fast feedback and fast forward loops wherever work is performed, at all stages of the technology value stream, encompassing…

— Gene Kim

“Truly great problem-solvers powerfully communicate the value of the problem-solving process and difficulty of the problem once the solution is found.”

— Nat Greene

“We increase flow by making work visible, by reducing batch sizes and intervals of work, and by building quality in, preventing defects from being…

— Gene Kim

It's all about new techniques -- simplifying old techniques, and consolidating steps. Making things go faster, but not worse.

— Martha Stewart

“You can't solve today's new problems with yesterday's old processes”

— Rick Otton