Jidoka is a four-step process from Lean Manufacturing, that engages when faults or "abnormalities" occur:
- detect the abnormality;- stop;
- fix or correct the immediate condition;
- investigate the root cause and install a countermeasure.
Note that Jidoka is a technique from lean manufacturing, not from product development. This lens asks whether the concept of Jidoka can be appied to Software Development - and if so, how?
Interesting web pages
- Jidoka in software development
- A simple introduction to jidoka in software development
- SPA Conference - Jidoka session
- Details of my workshop on Jidoka at the SPA2006 conference in the UK
- Catch up before checking in
- Using a CM tool's policies to prevent further recurrence of a merge crash
- Use tests as a failsafe
- Using automated test suites to stop the line
- The Essence of Jidoka
- Article on Jidoka in lean manufacturing, published by Society of Manufacturing Engineers
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