Tag: Empowered Teams
🚗 How Toyota Built Agile Before Agile Existed – Lessons from the Lean Revolution
1. The Context – Japan’s Postwar Crisis and Toyota’s Constraint In the late 1940s, Japan’s economy was shattered.Toyota, a small automaker compared to global giants like Ford, couldn’t compete in volume, scale, or capital. But instead of copying Detroit’s assembly-line model, Toyota flipped the script:If we can’t be the fastest or the largest, we’ll be…
Agile Project Management Unleashed: From Meetings to Meaningful Impact
Agile isn’t about doing more; it’s about delivering what matters most. 1. Impact-Focused Sprint Goals: Beyond Backlog Items Most teams define sprint goals as collections of user stories, measured in story points. Yet backlog completion does not guarantee business value. Instead, frame sprint goals as testable hypotheses: “We believe that adding X feature will increase…
