[BBLISA-announce] BBLISA June meeting - Lay Waste to Waste (tonight)

[John P. Rouillard]

Hi all:

Back Bay Lisa now has a youtube channel.

Peg's May talk on "Project Management and IT" is available there at:

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vL4vqC-wQc

The talk for June is titled "Lay Waste to Waste".

Waste is part of every process. As with entropy, waste increases
unless steps are taken to reduce it. In many processes the waste is as
high as 85% of the process.

This talk will cover the basic ideas and some background behind Lean
and 6 Sigma (LSS), discuss their origins and then walk through some
examples while introducing the tools and techniques. Plus you get to
test the speaker by bringing your own problems and (hopefully) leave
with some ideas on how to tackle resolving the problem.

John Rouillard has been a system administrator trying to fix practices
for more decades than he cares to remember. His interest in formal
problem solving techniques developed by watching solutions that didn't
really solve problems but merely added more problems while allowing
the original issue to generate even more failures.

The talk will happen this evening, Wednesday, June 11, 2014 at 7PM in
MIT E-51, Room 149.

For those of you unable to attend in person, please join the
GoToMeeting at:

  https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/696243693
  Meeting ID 696-243-693

Also, we will be recording it for later upload to you tube as
well. (Thanks to Josh Boon for setting this up.)

Agenda:

7:00 - Announcements & Introductions
7:25 door prizes (on if you are there in person I'm afraid).
7:30 - Formal presentation MIT E-51, Room 149

Hope to see you there.

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				-- rouilj
John Rouillard
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