Lean Enterprise - Gary O'Brien and Barry O'Reilly
Thoughtworks Technology Podcast
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4.5 • 58 Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2014
⏱️ 50 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So Barry and Gary, it's not a joke. |
| 0:13.0 | Dan's real name's not Larry. We're not part of a cult of rhyming names. |
| 0:18.0 | However, we have done a lot of work to make sure you remember |
| 0:21.5 | who's who because our experience over talking together has been that during the break, people |
| 0:25.8 | come up and first questions always, are you Barry or Gary? It's quite embarrassing. So Barry's |
| 0:30.2 | actually been practicing an Irish accent. He's going to attempt the entire presentation in an Irish |
| 0:34.3 | accent, so I hope that goes well. Okay, so Lean Enterprise. |
| 0:42.7 | There's a very cool quote |
| 0:44.3 | and picked up from the economist to talk about |
| 0:47.0 | what stops organisations from becoming a lean enterprise. |
| 0:51.4 | It's quite in line with the theme today. |
| 0:55.2 | So there are things that go on in traditional organisations that are going to inhibit what you do. And it's really |
| 1:00.4 | important that we become quite transparent and make these things very visible so that we can |
| 1:05.3 | change the kind of conversations that are going on in organisations. There's this market tension that's been building. |
| 1:13.0 | And the first thing we talk about is how do we build the right thing quicker, |
| 1:18.0 | as opposed to just building the thing that we've been asked to do |
| 1:20.9 | and continuing to build it until we finished it |
| 1:22.8 | and then standing back and saying, what do we build next? |
| 1:25.3 | How do we build the right thing quicker? |
| 1:27.4 | From an |
| 1:27.8 | end-to-end perspective, so you can't just build something really, really fast if it takes |
| 1:34.1 | you sort of eight months to decide what to build and another sort of six or seven months |
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