ToyotaWay

The Toyota Way of running projects

Intro

*The Toyota Way - 14 management principles from the world's greatest manufacturer * by Jeffrey K. Liker describes the management philosophy behind Toyota's "Lean Management". It goes beyond the better known "Toyota Production System" and "Lean Thinking", whose ideas are starting to be applied to IT projects.

The session

In this session, participants get to examine some of the 14 principles, to see if and when they are or aren't applicable to IT projects. They work in small groups to create a short presentation, which they present to the other participants. The session ends by a plenary discussion to draw up the conclusions of this session

Schedule

• 10 min Introduction
• 20 min Overview of the principles
• 30 min Select principles and form groups to examine them
• 20 min Each group makes their presentation
• 10 min Conclusions

None required, although some experience with management and development processes could be helpful.

The session organiser will provide copies and an introduction to the "Toyota Way" book.

This session will also be held at XP 2005. The aim is to compare and contrast the output from both sessions.

Session results

Introduction

The session started with a quick overview of the 14 principles: