This week we had a festival called Bhoghi in southern part of India. an important ritual as a part of this festival is to collect the waste from your house and burn it. it is an interesting ritual as we identify things which are hampering our quality of life and removing them and making a clean start.

As I was thinking about this it occurred to me from years ago when I had learned about lean manufacturing while reading the book “Toyota Way” it talks about 7 types of waste

1. Transportation

2. Inventory

3. Motion

4. Waiting

5. Overprocessing

6. Overproduction

7. Defects

This set me thinking as an architect -

“What are the wastes I could remove from the systems which I am responsible for as an architect?”

“removing an emerged guitar branches” , “unused reports and unnecessary data jobs running in production“, many more…