Quitting a Software Application: Safari vs. Chrome & Error Proofing Mark Graban Aug 26, 2011 4 Blog The two primary web browsers I use these days on my Mac are Safari and Chrome. I've always been a big user of…
Of Blogs and Books (or from Solo to Silo); The Need for Lean in Publishing Mark Graban Jul 31, 2011 25 Blog As a kid, I always enjoyed writing and, at one point, dreamed of being a baseball beat writer, like the father of…
Changes in Mac OS X “Lion” and Parallels to Workplace Changes Mark Graban Jul 22, 2011 10 Blog It's nowhere near as important as yesterday's topic of employee and patient safety, but my last two days of using…
Warning: You Can’t Even Draw a Map with this “Value Stream… Mark Graban Jul 13, 2011 33 Blog If you are a Twitter user and follow the #Lean hashtag on Twitter, you might have seen a lot of noise from a…
Blog Post About Preventable Errors Felled by Preventable Error Mark Graban Mar 2, 2011 2 Blog So Monday's blog post was about preventable medical errors - namely errors involving pharmacies giving the wrong…
Reminder, Monday Night – Talking at Lean Software Austin Gathering Mark Graban Jan 15, 2011 1 Blog As a former Austin resident ("Keep Austin Weird!"), I'm happy to be heading down I-35 from Fort Worth to attend the…
Podcast #99 – The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development Mark Graban Oct 11, 2010 7 Blog For episode #99 of the podcast, I'm talking with the authors of the book The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer!-->…
This Yahoo Check Makes Zero Cents Mark Graban Jul 2, 2010 8 Blog This is a cliche' of bad process and bad information systems, but I actually received a paper check in the mail…
Guest Post: Don’t Market Without Your Kanban Mark Graban Jun 26, 2010 8 Blog Today's guest blogger is Joe Dager, of the site Business901. He's a very active blogger and podcaster and he's very…
How I Broke My Blog and Fixed It… Lessons Learned Mark Graban Apr 26, 2010 3 Blog For those of you who have had difficulty accessing LeanBlog.org for the past two weeks or so, I apologize. It's…
Parallels between “Lean Startups” and “Adaptive Design” Mark Graban Apr 23, 2010 0 Blog I've been a fan of the "Lean Startups" work of Eric Ries since last year, so I'm happy to be producing a free LEI!-->…
Notes on a Talk by Eric Ries (@ericries) at MIT on “#Lean Startup” Mark Graban Jan 18, 2010 14 Blog One of my goals for the next few weeks is to catch up on blogging about some great speakers I've seen recently.…
Video about Lean Startups Mark Graban Sep 30, 2009 4 Blog Gov 2.0 Summit 09: Eric Ries, "Lean Startups: Doing More with Less" I was tipped off a while back to the work…
The Dawn of a New Day in Software Development… Steve Hebert Aug 26, 2009 4 Blog Mark's note: Running the risk of being called lazy, I'd like to introduce another guest blogger, Steve Hebert. We…
‘Takt Time’ for Apple’s App Store and for Healthcare Mark Graban Aug 25, 2009 3 Blog Sunday, I read this New York Times article about Apple's "App Store" for the iPhone and iPod Touch (I've been a…
Reflections on Reader Feedback – Part 2 Mark Graban Aug 15, 2009 3 Blog Following up on Part 1 of my Reader Survey reflection exercise, here is Part 2. Thanks for the 113 survey responses…
"Do" Lean or "Be" Lean in IT? Mark Graban Jun 29, 2009 1 Lean & IT « IT Business Alignment (IT2B)Oops... I accidentally hit "publish" instead of "save as draft." For a…
The Benefits of Using Lean Approaches for Software Development Mark Graban Apr 15, 2009 1 If Lean can work in healthcare, why not software? Today's guest post is by Eric Landes, who currently works with…