Wait until the seventh
ContentsOverviewAsking the users rather than the vendorThe corporate tool is not where the work happensWhat people are doing in spreadsheets that they […]
Four reports, forty per cent of the hours
ContentsOverviewCounting the thing nobody had countedSize does not predict reporting load, and the gap is enormousWhere the time actually goes, and where […]
The step where nothing was recorded
ContentsOverviewNot every job needs the full procedure, and saying so is the pointThe gap in the formColour, keys and who supplies themThe […]
Sixteen days in one country, thirty seven in another
ContentsOverviewEverything varied except the machineThe variance, measuredWhere the risk was sittingThe unglamorous causes of overrunWhat the playbook actually standardisesWhat this is, and […]
The sites with the worst numbers had no plan
ContentsOverviewA list of projects is not a planTwo targets move, four do notConcentration cuts both waysThe finding that changes where to spendThe […]
Nobody told him the date could move
ContentsOverviewThe cost sits with one party and the decision sits with anotherA factor of four between two contractors doing the same workThe […]
Nobody was measured on working together
ContentsOverviewThe dilemma underneath the briefWhat people actually saidThe platform question was not the platform questionWhat they would accept, and what they would […]
Filled in from personal experience
ContentsOverviewNobody owned the process, only their part of itWhat the map showedSix fields nobody downstream was readingThree designs, one rejected on the […]
Four to ten months to return a part
ContentsOverviewThe problemWhat the sprint set out to doAftermarket and Service BusinessFour to ten months to return a partAugust 2026 4 min read […]
Thirty two thousand hours
A €19 billion European energy and refining major had an improvement programme live with no baseline under it. The sprint counted the lost time: 32,000 hours mapped, and one word that decides what the number means.
Designing a Learning Academy for a Defence Manufacturer
ContentsOverviewThe problemWhat the sprint set out to doOperational ImprovementDesigning a Learning Academy for a Defence ManufacturerAugust 2026 2 min read SprintlyWorksThe client […]
Two hundred hours to send a price
Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain & Operations Two hundred hours to send a price Contents The situation Why it is hard How we […]