Finally, we got along to XPDay today, albeit only for a few hours. We went specifically to see my brother, Marc Baker, and Dan Jones from the Lean Enterprise Academy do their keynote. It was great to meet Dan and talk with him over lunch.
Dan talked about the evolution of Lean. Marc talked about Lean thinking and how they're conducting 'experiments' in various industries, particularly healthcare, to compress value streams, eliminate unnecessary waste and increase throughput. It was a good talk. Refreshingly different, I thought, but still pertinent. The anecdotes were amusing and the metrics were both shocking and impressive, in terms of what was going on before the experiments and what the experiments achieved. And I'm actually glad they didn't talk about Lean in the context of software.
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