Jens R. Woinowski

Quality and risk manager

Jens R. Woinowski has been in the IT business for more than 20 years and is currently quality and risk manager at a major IT company. While studying and applying lean principles as part of his job, Woinowski discovered that lean management principles were as relevant in personal life as in business. In his blog Lean Self he shares insights of this discovery to the public.

Tue, 12/17/2013 - 15:20
Are You Feeling Low From Failing Lean? Try meeting ever-changing challenges one small step at a time
Tue, 05/26/2015 - 13:35
As you browse through lean management pages on the Internet, you may have seen reports on companies having little success with lean, or comments about how misunderstanding lean can lead to bad consequences. From time to time I can sense the level…
Habit Stacking In a nutshell
Mon, 06/09/2014 - 17:28
I recently stumbled upon the book by S.J. Scott, Habit Stacking: 97 Small Life Changes That Take Five Minutes or Less (Archangel Ink, 2014). The concept is very simple, but powerful. Instead of a classical review, this is an “in a nutshell” version…
If Your To-Do List Is Empty, There Is No Fun Striking the perfect balance on your <em>kanban</em> board
Mon, 03/17/2014 - 16:12
Recently, a reader of the Lean Self blog made an interesting remark, which is the headline you see above. It actually made me wonder: How happy are we if our to-do list is empty? And how full must it be for us to become unhappy? Let's assume you…
Three Reasons Not to Like Best Practices Context is everything
Tue, 12/17/2013 - 15:20
In my line of business, the term “best practices” is common. It’s an abbreviation for the sum of all experiences people have had, condensed into how-to instructions, design or behavior patterns, lessons-learned documents, and so on, all collected…