After visualizing the value chain, it is time for the service team of BIT to introduce Work in Progress Limits in the Kanbanize dashboard.
Continue readingKanban in practice: determine the value stream mapping.
The first step of the Kanban approach is mapping the value chain of the organization (or of the team, depending at which level the approach is focusing). The process should be mapped “as it is”.
At the starting point of the mapping process, particularly useful is the operating model canvas (that is part of the ISO 9001 system of BIT).
Let’s talk about Kanban with the Business Unit Managers.
After obtaining the sustain of HR and Finance, it was the turn to obtain the one from the Business Units managers. Let us have a talk with them.
Continue readingCost of delay to highlight the cost of queues: fundamental step to introduce the Kanban methodology.
Paul (the quality coordinator of BIT), was able to obtain the sustain of HR to introduce Kanban methodology in BIT. But this was not enough: he needed now the support of Finance.
Continue readingCan Kanban practices be used to prevent burn out?
In the last three years, BIT had 4 cases of employee burn out. Three of them were young employees, holding an operative level; one was a middle manager around 40 years hold.
Paul, the quality coordinator of BIT, who has also the role of Health and Security (H&S) agent, believes it is time to insert the prevention of psychological risks (PSR) in the QMS of the Company
A visual approach to project management reporting: Story Mapping.
After discussing with the team leaders and high management the 6 principles of the change management process of BIT, Paul was ready to design the different components of the process. It started with the reporting phase.
The importance to agree on principles in a change management process.
It is not the first time that the Quality coordinator of BIT needs to deep drive in the topic of change management. Last time (September 2018) was related to the migration of the QMS from ISO 9001 version 2008 to version 2015. In that occasion, the ITIL V3 offered a substantial help to arrive to write a practical (and accepted by BIT management) procedure; as well important, to agree on the change principles before discussing the procedure.
Continue readingCan a quality coordinator be also a change manager?
At end of 2021, the two founders of BIT decided to retire.
The management of the Company was entrusted to the daughter of one of the founder: Emma.
Since she was a teen, she has been involved in the family business but after graduation (in philosophy) she spent some years working abroad in an IT distributor company. Meantime, she obtained a MBA.
Seasonality in Process Control: the business impact.
The SPC of the quality analysis of the tracking list showed the presence of a strong seasonality in the process.
Statistically, it is possible to remove the seasonal effect but the quality coordinator of BIT prefers to separate the analysis of the process in “normal” and “high” period in order to give a business value to this quality measure.
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The Statistical Process Control of the quality analysis of the tracking list.
In the post Quality check of the tracking list it was presented a quite straitforward way to manage the quality of this control list. With the help of the statistical process control technique we can determine if the effort of the team have brought the process under control: a basic step to introduce then the continous improvement.
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QMS in Operations 