Tag: Agile terminologies

Definition:

The Project Status Report is a document that is used by Project Managers for formal regular reporting on the status of a project to the Steering Committee, Project Sponsor, Senior Manager or other Key Stakeholders, depending on the size of the project.

Status Reporting is one of the several methods used by agile teams to report current status of the project both internally and externally. To be more precise, a Status Report is a simple document that exists between a project manager, client and the internal team, periodically updated by everyone so as to where the project is in relation to where it has to be at that point of time. The key benefits of using Status Reports are: managing large projects with multiple stakeholders, and focus everyone on the same issues every week. It is easy to find out if there is any slippages in timings or issues that affect budget of project, highlight the same and address it to the stakeholders.

Further Reading:

Disciplined Agile Delivery by Scott W. Ambler and Mark Lines

Definition:

In Japanese, the term ‘Mura’ means unevenness or inconsistency in physical matter or human spiritual condition. In Kanban, Mura is reduced by equipping the process with the exact part, at the exact time, in the exact amount. Mura in Japanese means irregularity, lack of uniformity or non-uniformity, inequality and it is also included as a key concept in Toyota Production System (TPS). Mudra is one of the three types of waste i.e., (Muda, Mura and Muri).

In Toyota waste reduction is one of the effective to increase profitability and eliminate the less profitable resources. Toyota has adopted these three words as part of their process of product improvement program,as they are very familiar with the common Japanese word usage.

Further Reading:

The Toyota Way Fieldbook by Liker, David Meier, Liker