Cupertino, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 06/11/2015 -- Neil A. Chaudhuri recently suggested why Kanban may be a better choice for projects than Scrum. Scrum is a process. Kanban is a meta-process, asserting key principles without prescribing how to accomplish them. There is nothing about sprints, product owners, formal planning meetings or any of the ceremony associated with Scrum. Based on the lean manufacturing model espoused by the "Toyota Way," Kanban is in a way a superset of Scrum. The ability to visualize work in an explicit way is vital. Kanban demonstrates unequivocally where everything is in workflow. It also reveals potential bottlenecks where manufacturers may apply the Theory of Constraints. Establishing pull systems using Kanban as the core underlying methodology, has been critical to the movement toward lean manufacturing processes during the past few decades. This is one of many features appearing in Forecast Errors Newsletter. Each week features two to four topics.
Forecast Errors, a weekly e-newsletter, sponsored by Ultriva, Inc. shares methods, modes, and tools used to inform Manufacturers' of Forecast Errors that they face on the manufacturing floor, and with a variety of supply chain industries. The newsletter explores forecast errors as the difference between the actual and predicted value. In the current issue, Forecast Errors argued that what separates best-in-class companies from those that struggle with accuracy is how they root out (and learn from) forecasting errors.
A forecast error is the difference between the actual and predicted value. The consequences are expensive inefficiencies that can be resolved with lean manufacturing technology.
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