Engineering Quote by Gene Kim Download Open image ““Complex work is managed so that problems in design and operations are revealed.”” — Gene Kim ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Engineering Teamwork Work
“Whenever something is engineered as complex, it is designed to keep you simple.” — Richard Diaz Copy Share Image
“In technology, our work happens almost entirely within complex systems with a high risk of catastrophic consequences. As” — Gene Kim Copy Share Image
“Give people a small, easy task to do, rather than a complex one.” — Susan M. Weinschenk Copy Share Image
Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
Complexity has and will maintain a strong fascination for many people. It is true that we live in a complex world and strive to… — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
“the most important part of design is finding all the issues to be resolved. The rest are details” — Soumeet Lanka Copy Share Image
“Reality consists of sets of interacting problems, systems of problems we call “messes.” As previously noted, problems are abstractions extracted from reality by analysis.… — Russell L. Ackoff Copy Share Image
“for those organizations that provided a stock ticker symbol, we found that high performers had 50% higher market capitalization growth over three years. They… — Gene Kim Copy Share Image
“A critical part of the Second Way is making wait times visible, so you know when your work spends days sitting in someone’s queue—or… — Gene Kim Copy Share Image
“when something does go wrong, we conduct blameless post-mortems, not to punish anyone, but to better understand what caused the accident and how to… — Gene Kim Copy Share Image
“Bill Baker, a distinguished engineer at Microsoft, quipped that we used to treat servers like pets: “You name them and when they get sick,… — Gene Kim Copy Share Image
“To even get feedback from our integration process would require twenty-four to thirty-six hours.” — Gene Kim Copy Share Image
“work can bounce between teams endlessly due to incomplete information, or work can be passed onto downstream work centers with problems that remain completely… — Gene Kim Copy Share Image
“practicing five minutes daily is better than practicing once a week for three hours. And if you want to create a genuine culture of… — Gene Kim Copy Share Image
“20% on detailed planning (Their poor throughput and high lead times were misattributed to faulty estimation, and so, hoping to get a better answer,… — Gene Kim Copy Share Image
“Features are always a gamble. If you’re lucky, ten percent will get the desired benefits.” — Gene Kim Copy Share Image
“I listen to Wes and Patty brainstorm ideas to reduce yet another dependency on Brent when something starts to bother me. Erik called WIP,… — Gene Kim Copy Share Image
The status quo (of development) pre-ordains failure from the very beginning. — Gene Kim Copy Share Image
The bones of my architecture are very much related to the structure, to the physical fact of how a building can stand up; it's… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love. — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
Batley and Spen has a high proportion of people working in manufacturing, and we can boast the full range of industries, including high-skilled, precision… — Jo Cox Copy Share Image
Design is a very personal thing. It's like art. Your personal choice plays a big role. — Gauri Khan Copy Share Image
Worship isn't destructive, Martin. I know that. I don't. I only know it's the core of his life. What else has he got? He… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
Leave a cavity behind the [wall] facings, and on the inside build walls two feet thick, made of red dimension stone or burnt brick… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life,… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
Design certainly has a cosmetic, aesthetic aim. It always aims at making things beautiful. But relevance is just as important. I often say, 'If… — Yves Behar Copy Share Image
I think the ethics and morals of genetic engineering are very complicated. It intrigues me. — Roger Spottiswoode Copy Share Image
Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be — Curtis W. Fentress Copy Share Image