Lean Agile Improvement uses a proven approach to bring lasting change to your business process improvement goals. Being good is not enough, and past wins do not guarantee future success. To succeed in today’s environment, you must continuously seek better ways of working and delivering value to your customer.
Lean Agile Improvement aim is to provide valuable knowledge and resources to help you on a journey towards sustainable success. It is not a cookie-cutter approach and instead relies on the process of discovery to put you on your right path.

Lean Agile Improvement is based on more than 35 years of industry experience in competitive large scale product development environments. While most of the insight is coming from product development and knowledge work, the principles and practices presented are universally applicable and scaleable to many environments including manufacturing and service industries.
The intent is to provide you useful and practical advice from the lean and agile perspectives. While the content below follows a sensible flow and approach, you can also jump in to any topic in any order, based on your interests.
Contact Info: Mike Schwedt
mrschwedt at gmail dot com
[248] 318 1459
Posts (work in progress)
- The Lean Agile Improvement Mindset
- Building a Culture of Continuous Improvement
- Put People First
- Assess Your Situation
- Handle Big Change
- Systematic Problem Solving
- Visualize the Value Stream
- Optimize for Flow
- Process Improvement Reference Models
- Organizational Development
- Team working models and practices
- Leadership
- Built-in Quality
- Reference materials