<commit_before>---
layout: post
title:  "Lean Quality"
date:   2017-09-15 4:30:00
categories: LeanQuality
---

LEAN Quality, or the technology of the most efficient, highest possible quality and continuous improvement is one of [my philanthropic venture](http://markbruns.github.io/philanthropy/mvp/opensource/2017/07/15/Venture-Philanthropy.html) areas ... removing waste is about higher quality, lower maintenance, more sublime, more natural existence ... ideally, it is about an independent, creative way of life that costs nothing to maintain. The ideal may be unattainable, but we should work at making living and the maintenance of life rewarding and fun in of themselves.

Learning to see waste is a matter of thinking serious about the eight wastes of the D.O.W.N.T.I.M.E. acronym during our downtime ... we should not think of waste as a crime or moral failure -- instead we should look at it as an opportunity for improvement. Focusing on LEAN quality is a way to polish something that we are justifiable already proud of.  

# Defects

  * Not understanding the requirements, or worse, just doing something before learning the requirements
  * Producing the wrong thing or something that cannot be used without rework or re-conditioning
  * Producing CRAP for a variety of reasons, eg not paying attention or keeping a process under tight control

# Overproduction

  * Producing something that will need to be disposed of [just for the sake of being productive]
  * Producing something because it's easier to keep drones busy and mindless than it is to manage creative people
  * Producing more quantity rather than better quality or more difficult to produce more needed items  

# Waiting

  * Keeping people in limbo, possibly producing defects or overproducing something, while they wait for answer
  * Not being respectful of others time, attention or their urgency but just keeping them waiting out of arrogance
  * Waiting in traffic, in line; waiting for responses; waiting for feedback from a device or process  

# Negativity

  * Having the mindset of a Nihilist, rather than a Realist
  * Not Listening, especially to others, but also to the process or to Nature
  * Not using suggestions or ideas, but instead finding fault with the suggestor<commit_msg>leaning up our ways of life<commit_after>---
layout: post
title:  "Lean Quality"
date:   2017-09-15 4:30:00
categories: LeanQuality
---

LEAN Quality, or the technology of the most efficient, highest possible quality and continuous improvement is one of [my philanthropic venture](http://markbruns.github.io/philanthropy/mvp/opensource/2017/07/15/Venture-Philanthropy.html) areas ... removing waste is about higher quality, lower maintenance, more sublime, more natural existence ... ideally, it is about an independent, creative way of life that costs nothing to maintain.

Obviously, that ideal may be unattainable, but it should not stop us from keeping our eyes on the goal, on what quality is and from LEANING up our processes as we work toward the goal. We should work at making our ways of life simpler, more creative and more in tune with natural processes, eg recreation through potager gardens with composted household waste to minimize the amount of packaging and extraneous processes necessary to sustain waste. The maintenance of our ways of life should be rewarding and fun in and of themselves.

Learning to see waste is a matter of thinking serious about the eight wastes of the D.O.W.N.T.I.M.E. acronym during our downtime ... we should not think of waste as a crime or moral failure -- instead we should look at it as an opportunity for improvement. Focusing on LEAN quality is a way to polish something that we are justifiable already proud of.  

# Defects

  * Not understanding the requirements, or worse, just doing something before learning the requirements
  * Producing the wrong thing or something that cannot be used without rework or re-conditioning
  * Producing CRAP for a variety of reasons, eg not paying attention or keeping a process under tight control

# Overproduction

  * Producing something that will need to be disposed of [just for the sake of being productive]
  * Producing something because it's easier to keep drones busy and mindless than it is to manage creative people
  * Producing more quantity rather than better quality or more difficult to produce more needed items  

# Waiting

  * Keeping people in limbo, possibly producing defects or overproducing something, while they wait for answer
  * Not being respectful of others time, attention or their urgency but just keeping them waiting out of arrogance
  * Waiting in traffic, in line; waiting for responses; waiting for feedback from a device or process  

# Negativity

  * Having the mindset of a Nihilist, rather than a Realist
  * Not Listening, especially to others, but also to the process or to Nature
  * Not using suggestions or ideas, but instead finding fault with the suggestor
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