From the course: Implementing Continuous Improvement: A Case Study

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The kickoff

The kickoff

(air whooshing) (indistinct chatter) (laughing) - All right you guys. (indistinct chatter) 8569, if Elena imports an FCS file to (mumbles). - So, Rich What's going on here? - Yeah, so. What you've seen in our process run is we do planning once a week with our customers. We have this structured five day cycle that we go through. And planning occurs then work authorization. And at the beginning of every five days cycle, especially for large projects like we have here, the entire team that's sitting here is working on the same project. - These are your programmers here, right? - Programmers, QA, project management. - So everyone? Really. - Yeah. - We don't have any-- - High Tech Anthropologists? - The high tech anthropologists are not at this particular meeting today, although they often are. Just for whatever reason, they're not needed for this particular session today. - Okay. - And what they do is,…

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