Comments on: Back from Houston

By: Marnie

Marnie — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 20:17:15 +0000

I just want to say that we had an amazing time in Houston. Thank you so much to Mike and Amy for having us, and to Kathleen for organizing the day. We learned an incredible amount and really enjoyed meeting everyone.

By: christy

christy — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:56:23 +0000

The Friday get-together looks like it was a lot of fun, I’m jealous. Hoping Mike and Amy will let me stop by sometime and check out their system… maybe I can steal some stuff while I’m there, too!

Love the Cola la la la outfit!

By: Milena

Milena — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 14:43:21 +0000

The funniest thing about driving with Kathleen was that she would give me an order, i.e. “Get on this freeway” or “Do a U-turn” and expect it to be excecuted at that moment, as if she were driving. It takes me about 5 seconds to process what she wants, make sure everything is safe, etc, while she mutters “I would be driving a lot more agressively if I were you”. …I love Kathleen!

Seriously, it was an amazing day on Friday. It was so nice to meet people in all stages of product development! So I think everyone will have gotten something different out of it. Thank you Mike and Amy for organizing such a great get-together!

By: Vesta

Vesta — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 02:06:50 +0000

Oh, I’ll be back, alright. Mwahahahaha!

Seriously, it was an amazing event. Thanks so much to Mike and Amy.

By: Marguerite Swope

Marguerite Swope — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 23:41:46 +0000

Kathleen,

Thank you SO much for the photos. I’ve been eagerly awaiting a report, and I just loved the photos. I don’t know how you chose a best design at the Flash ‘n Trash show. They were phenomenal! Thanks also for the link to those photos.

I look forward to reading more as reports come in.

And, I want to see Vesta’s photo of the infamous sign. I’m so curious to see it!

Marguerite

By: Mike C

Mike C — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 21:45:55 +0000

The cutter is Jostin, he’s Noemy’s son.

We came out of the open house no worse for wear here, though we immediately jumped into our hectic Monday schedule.

My impression was that a lot of the attendees got as much (if not more) value from talking with their peers than they did from looking over the actual lean implementation.

We’d probably be willing to host another session at our facility sometime next year, though I’m hoping to convince Kathleen (and maybe some others) to collaborate with us and put on a two day mini-conference next summer that could include a factory tour but would also have more in-depth offsite portion that didn’t require us to TALK REALLY LOUDLY whenever our air compressor fired up.

I bought a lock that I was going to use to control access to our inventory storage room, but have since decided to put on my door in case Vesta “sticky fingers” Garcia comes back.