Toyota Production System

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1. radiatorOct 2023
   Why don't you read some books?

   - Out of the crisis and The new economics, Deming

   - Workplace Management and Toyota Production System, Ohno

   - Peopleware, DeMarco & Lister

   - Managing the professional service firm, Meister (delegation)

   - Leadership Handbook, US Army

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2. belfalasJan 2023
   Many more beyond this but these are my for sures.

   People / Soft Skills:

   * How to win friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie

   * Secrets of Consulting - Gerald Weinberg

   * Peopleware - Tom DeMarco & Timothy Lister

   * Nurtured by Love - Shinici Suzuki

   * Turn the Ship Around! - David Marquet

   * Never Split the Difference - Chris Voss

   http://dhemery.com/articles/resistance_as_a_resource/

   http://dhemery.com/articles/managing_yourself_through_change...

   Macro Skills:

   * Toyota Production System - Taiichii Ohno

   * Workplace Management - Taiichii Ohno

   * Thinking in Systems - Donella Meadows

   * Fifth Discipline - Peter Senge

   Agile:

   * Extreme Programming, Explained (2nd ed.) - Kent Beck (the annotated bibliography is a goldmine)

   * Chaos: Making a New Science - James Gleick

   Programming:

   * Implementation Patterns - Kent Beck

   * Test-Driven Development, By Example - Kent Beck

   * Refactoring (both editions) - Martin Fowler

   * Refactoring to Patterns - Joshua Kerievsky

   * Practical Object Oriented Design - Sandi Metz

   * Functional Programming in Scala - Chiusano & Bjarnason

   * Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided By Tests - Freeman & Pryce ("The Goose Book")

   * Modern Java in Action - Raoul-Gabriel Urma

   * Java Concurrency in Practice - Brian Goetz

   * Grokking Algorithms - Aditya Y. Bhargava

   Architecture:

   * Righting Software - Juval Lowy

   * Release It! - Michael Nygard

   * Site Reliability Engineering - Beyer, et al. ("The SRE Book”)

   * Domain Driven Design - Eric Evans

   * Introduction to Permaculture - Bill Mollison and Mia Slay

   * Fun with a Pencil - Andrew Loomis

   Design:

   * All books by Edward Tufte, especially “The visual display of quantitative information”

   * The Elements of Typographic Style - Robert Bringhurst

   * Understanding Comics - Scott McCloud

   * Design of Everyday Things - Don Norman

   * Notes on the Synthesis of Form - Christopher Alexander

   * The Timeless Way of Building - Christopher Alexander

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3. eatonphilJun 2021
   I would not recommend anyone An Elegant Puzzle. No disrespect to the author's writing ability and no discredit to his experience. I thought the book had no flow (it was a curated collection of his blog posts, or something like that). He described in detail the decisions he made or things he learned but since he didn't explain any context about the company at the time I could not figure out how any of it was relevant to me. And I've worked everywhere in companies of varying size between F500 and Series A.

   I do agree The Manager's Path is a good one though.

   Some other favorites are High Output Management by Andy Grove, Managing Transitions by William Bridges, The Toyota Production System by Taiichi Ohno, Measure What Matters by John Doerr, Peopleware by Tom DeMarco, The Innovator's Dilemma, etc.

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4. akeckJun 2019
   My favorite book in this topic is "The High-Velocity Edge: How Market Leaders Leverage Operational Excellence to Beat the Competition: Second Edition" by Steven J. Spear (Formerly "Chasing The Rabbit")

   Also really good: Deming wrote his perspective in "Out of Crisis" and Toyota's Taiichi Ohno wrote about his experience in "Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production". As others have mentioned, Deming laid the ground work for this type of thinking in post-war Japan. Taiichi Ohno led the initial development of the Toyota Production System.

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5. linksnapzzMar 2019
   For anybody that cares, much of this process has its origins in Taiichi Ohno's work in the '70s. His original "Toyota Production System" book of 1978, which is still in print, is short, accessible, and enormously enlightening. Likewise, a comparative study of why the Toyota system works in comparison with other manufacturing approaches is the 2nd edition of Womack's "Machine that Changed the World". Also, other books by Shingo, Imai, Deming et al. have lots of good information.
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6. dammitcoetzeeSep 2018
   It's hard not to be dismissive of what appears to be a simple set of concepts, but you're missing on an opportunity to learn a very cool set of skills here. I recommend that anyone who wants to live a better life and do better work read books on the Toyota Production System and Taiichi Ohno. As for Poka-Yoke, It's a word that seems simple but when used in industry contexts communicates a deeper set of requirements than just "make it foolproof". Also, don't undersell how useful systematizing common sense is (and how difficult its application can get).
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