Agile and Scrum - Nigel Thurlow

How AI Reveals Bottlenecks and Improves Workflow: Lessons from Toyota

Seeing the System: From Toyota’s Material and Information Flow [...]

By Nigel Thurlow|2026-09-18T13:23:03-06:00September 20, 2026|Agile and Scrum, Featured, Leadership, Lean Thinking, Methods, Toyota Production System|

Automating a Broken System: The Hidden Risk of Agentic AI

Beyond The Chatbot Agentic AI is rapidly moving beyond [...]

By Nigel Thurlow|2026-09-03T12:24:33-06:00September 6, 2026|Agile and Scrum, Featured, Leadership, Lean Thinking, Methods, Toyota Production System, Uncategorized|

The Cost of Keeping Everyone Busy: Why High Utilization Slows Knowledge Work

Why Keeping Everyone Busy Makes Knowledge Work Slower High [...]

By Nigel Thurlow|2026-08-23T07:24:16-06:00August 23, 2026|Agile and Scrum, Featured, Leadership, Lean Thinking, Toyota Production System, Uncategorized|

Why Transformations Fail: Leadership Must Change

The Transformation Leaders Want—and the Change They Avoid Are [...]

By Nigel Thurlow|2026-08-14T10:41:38-06:00August 16, 2026|Agile and Scrum, Blog, Featured, Leadership, Lean Thinking, Toyota Production System|

How Scrum Rescued a Major Toyota Program

Management Summary This is my Toyota Scrum case study. In [...]

By Nigel Thurlow|2026-09-13T12:10:12-06:00January 6, 2023|Agile and Scrum, Blog, Featured, Lean Thinking|

The Agile Transformation Myth

The Agile transformation myth, a topic we introduced in the [...]

By Nigel Thurlow|2026-07-22T18:52:46-06:00December 28, 2022|Agile and Scrum, Lean Thinking|