What if you could double your factory throughput without adding people?
What if you could reduce your product costs by 50%?
How much money would you make?
How many jobs would you create?
Why aren’t you doing it?
What are you afraid of?
Too afraid to make money and create jobs.
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Nice… You could apply this equally well to Agile in the software development arena (and I might just do that!) thanks Mike!
Thanks, Mick. Give it a try with Agile in software development, but please send a note and let us know how it goes.