The actual over time, I acquired an email at a woman that inquired about if Nutrisystem has been basically the comparable to lean cuisine dishes. She desired to know exactly why your woman shouldn't merely obtain slim as well as cuisine with the supermarket along with hope all went well. She requested the reason it had been needed to order Nutrisystem on the web when the 2 were fundamentally the identical. My impression is they aren't the same ( space ) certainly not by a long chance. I'm going to reveal that more in the following article.
Even so, I can't examine a breakfast time, goodies along with sugars mainly because lean cuisine does indeed certainly not provide these things.
Note that you are likely to include many fruits in addition to vegetables. I'm about to make-believe which you do this kind of with regard to both equally weight loss plans to maintain every item and fixture similar. Therefore, we'll develop the pancakes in the morning, the particular mozzarella dairy product tortellini for lunch, the chicken wings for dinner, any peanut butter cookie regarding a treat, as well as pretzels for just a snack. This full day of all 5 foods nets all of us roughly 874 calories from fat for your time - consuming 5 times inside them for hours some sort of lunch, lunchtime, meal, and treat. (Understand that this doesn't incorperate your fresh sides.)
Now, let's look at a lean cuisine time. We're about to have a very tiny lunch (given it needs to be under 154 calories to be similar.) Then, we shall get fettuccine for lunch and elegant pizzas for dinner. Right now, I cannot figure in the appetizers in addition to puddings since there is no supplied. Although, in the interest of controversy, I'll label this equivalent in the same way that I known as the breakfast every day identical. In this example, were investigating 1124 calorie consumption. The grounds for the larger quantity of calorie consumption is on the whole, the actual lean cuisine foods are about 75 energy (and infrequently additional) more than the Nutrisystem brethren. As an example, the particular Nutrisystem chicken wings measures Two hundred and fifty calories, as the lean cuisine lasagna is actually 330.
Over the course of each day, this may actually accumulate. You're lower the probability that to get involved with ketosis through throughout way too many calories from fat along with cabohydrate supply. As well as, your lean cuisine dinners have got quite high levels of sodium which usually if you have water retention can certainly impede your progress.
Many people that electronic mail myself wish to know regarding market merchandise because they feel that they can be cheaper, but this perception could be completely wrong. If you use coupons, Nutrisystem foods is as low as all-around $2 per food i always think to be more cost-effective as compared to nearly all diet regime frosty dinners. Not only this, yet you need to go on your personal for breakfast, goodies, along with sugars. This is often rather difficult with relation to time period nevertheless strength of will. If I am wonderful on choosing my own, personal foods, We would not want to be dieting to start with.
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Saturday, October 2, 2010
JIT Knowledge Creation
This is our business. Just-in-time knowledge creation. (It is not just-in-time knowledge management.)
Why? And why is it so important?
Well, ultimately the answer is because people are important. Or maybe it is better to say we respect the customer. And the firm's shareholders.
What do I mean, you say?
Let's start from the beginning. A long time ago the Lean people discovered that any Work-In-Process waste (WIP) or inventory, is muda. No, they weren't being silly. All Lean firms still have some WIP and inventory, but they have been relentlessly reducing the ratio of WIP and inventory to sales for 50 years now. And now it is a very small fraction of what it used to be. And they are still not satisfied. It must be reduced more.
And why did they do that? Well, in the auto industry they realized that an unsold car in inventory is trouble. It can only get worse, it cannot get better. The sun can spoil the paint job. Rain can cause rust. Hail can damage the exterior. Time can make it go out of the current model year. In other words, they noticed that the car can decay. (There are other reasons too.)
In software development, our business is knowledge. In the form of working code.
How fast can our knowledge decay compared to a car?
And here we mean not only the final knowledge (the working code), but also all the other tacit and explicit knowledge needed in the course of building the working product.
My opinion, and I usually demonstrate this easily in each Scrum class, is that our knowledge decays exponentially faster than a car. And a car's value will only go down a bit at a time. But our knowledge can lose its value as much as 100% in one day.
So, although no one told you, we in the software industry need to be relentlessly reducing our all our work-in-process and inventory. So, WIP is any work we have done that has not resulted in finished inventory. Finished inventory is fully finished software, that is all but deployed and in use by the 'customer'.
Now, we don't mean you should be foolish. For example, there is a minimum marketable feature set concept that does apply. Although we think that the size of the MMFS is much smaller than we almost always want to believe.
Again, a key goal of how we organize things should be to minimize WIP and inventory. And because there are many reasons for that, we can also organize things to minimize the negative impact of the WIP and inventory we 'must' have. (We will talk later about some of the other negative impacts of WIP and inventory.)
We must have a greater percentage reduction in WIP and inventory than the auto industry. We have lots of work to do to make that happen. Lots of impediments to remove. It was hard for the auto industry, and it will be hard for us. And now we have made the first step -- someone has told you that is absolutely key to your job.
Now, you know what your job really is. To know and not to do, is not to know.
BTW, Takeuchi and Nonaka have written many many pages about knowledge creation. They are the godfathers of Scrum. (A hint, for those who want a hint.)
Why? And why is it so important?
Well, ultimately the answer is because people are important. Or maybe it is better to say we respect the customer. And the firm's shareholders.
What do I mean, you say?
Let's start from the beginning. A long time ago the Lean people discovered that any Work-In-Process waste (WIP) or inventory, is muda. No, they weren't being silly. All Lean firms still have some WIP and inventory, but they have been relentlessly reducing the ratio of WIP and inventory to sales for 50 years now. And now it is a very small fraction of what it used to be. And they are still not satisfied. It must be reduced more.
And why did they do that? Well, in the auto industry they realized that an unsold car in inventory is trouble. It can only get worse, it cannot get better. The sun can spoil the paint job. Rain can cause rust. Hail can damage the exterior. Time can make it go out of the current model year. In other words, they noticed that the car can decay. (There are other reasons too.)
In software development, our business is knowledge. In the form of working code.
How fast can our knowledge decay compared to a car?
And here we mean not only the final knowledge (the working code), but also all the other tacit and explicit knowledge needed in the course of building the working product.
My opinion, and I usually demonstrate this easily in each Scrum class, is that our knowledge decays exponentially faster than a car. And a car's value will only go down a bit at a time. But our knowledge can lose its value as much as 100% in one day.
So, although no one told you, we in the software industry need to be relentlessly reducing our all our work-in-process and inventory. So, WIP is any work we have done that has not resulted in finished inventory. Finished inventory is fully finished software, that is all but deployed and in use by the 'customer'.
Now, we don't mean you should be foolish. For example, there is a minimum marketable feature set concept that does apply. Although we think that the size of the MMFS is much smaller than we almost always want to believe.
Again, a key goal of how we organize things should be to minimize WIP and inventory. And because there are many reasons for that, we can also organize things to minimize the negative impact of the WIP and inventory we 'must' have. (We will talk later about some of the other negative impacts of WIP and inventory.)
We must have a greater percentage reduction in WIP and inventory than the auto industry. We have lots of work to do to make that happen. Lots of impediments to remove. It was hard for the auto industry, and it will be hard for us. And now we have made the first step -- someone has told you that is absolutely key to your job.
Now, you know what your job really is. To know and not to do, is not to know.
BTW, Takeuchi and Nonaka have written many many pages about knowledge creation. They are the godfathers of Scrum. (A hint, for those who want a hint.)
Friday, July 2, 2010
An Intro to Business Value Engineering
On June 30th, while I was in Montreal giving a CSM Course, I also joined the Scrum User Group and gave a new, somewhat different, presentation on BV Engineering. They seemed to like it more, so maybe I am making the points in a somewhat more practical, concrete way.
Here is the link to the PDF: http://www.slideshare.net/jhlittle/intro-to-bv-engineering-montreal
Here is the link to the PDF: http://www.slideshare.net/jhlittle/intro-to-bv-engineering-montreal
Friday, June 18, 2010
Courage
We have suggested in other posts that a tremendous amount of improvement can be made in, to over-simplify, 5 areas:
* ScrumMaster leading the removal of impediments
* Product Owner executing the 85-33% rule (like the 80-20 rule)
* Team having more fun!
* Team reducing Technical Debt all the time
* Continuously better Business Value Engineering
And why do we not see more improvement if there is indeed so much improvement there to be had?
How much improvement? Easily 5x - 10x over not that long a period of time.
So, why not?
Well, first, it is hard. It takes some hard work, but mostly hard thinking and hard conversations.
Second, we must actually believe that serious improvement is possible. Not so easy when we see so much baloney (I was sorely tempted to use a more technical term) happening all the time.
Third, we must actually want serious improvement (this is a key place where fun comes in). You must want it in very part of your body, almost. All of them must want it (well, many of them).
And then, we must have courage. To fight our own stupidity. To persevere against some hardships and some ups and downs. To fight others' stupidity. And to fight all the slings and arrows and natural shocks that come into a daily lives.
And we must focus. Maybe that means working on only one of the 5 areas above at any one time.
It is there. Go for it.
* ScrumMaster leading the removal of impediments
* Product Owner executing the 85-33% rule (like the 80-20 rule)
* Team having more fun!
* Team reducing Technical Debt all the time
* Continuously better Business Value Engineering
And why do we not see more improvement if there is indeed so much improvement there to be had?
How much improvement? Easily 5x - 10x over not that long a period of time.
So, why not?
Well, first, it is hard. It takes some hard work, but mostly hard thinking and hard conversations.
Second, we must actually believe that serious improvement is possible. Not so easy when we see so much baloney (I was sorely tempted to use a more technical term) happening all the time.
Third, we must actually want serious improvement (this is a key place where fun comes in). You must want it in very part of your body, almost. All of them must want it (well, many of them).
And then, we must have courage. To fight our own stupidity. To persevere against some hardships and some ups and downs. To fight others' stupidity. And to fight all the slings and arrows and natural shocks that come into a daily lives.
And we must focus. Maybe that means working on only one of the 5 areas above at any one time.
It is there. Go for it.
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