Hunting For An Engineer

  This book is simply my observations and stories about businesses passing or failing on the three rules of execution that are listed in the book introduction.
  Plenty of other books talk about these same ideas, but life in the real world is never quite as rosy as most authors want you to believe.

Hunting For An Engineer has about 20 charts. The sample below are some of my favorites, taken directly from the book. All of these charts were created in an Excel spreadsheet.

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Excuses are a dime a dozen when a bad product ships out the door.



Passion isn't the miracle pill that people think it is, especially when the most passionate person in the organization doesn't know what he's doing.



When the Kanban is low, it is a trigger to pull forward more material.



When the Kanban is high, it is a trigger to push more work downstream.



A scary boss can wreck the whole organization.



A wrecked communication cycle can spread like wildfire.



The 5-Why tool can lead to dead ends, try the 5-Forks instead.



A good looking flowchart is very helpful and should look good enough to hang on the wall.



When using the Ishikawa diagram, start with your best guesses.



Then after doing a thorough investigation, see if your initial guesses were even remotely correct.

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