Gene Kim

Best Quotes

“The people best able to solve problems are the people doing the work, right? Always... it's always about two people, the person who has a problem and the person who can fix it. And the closer you can get them together, the better off we are.”

Full Circle: The Gene Kim Interview

“What's magical about the Toyota DNA is that you have a community of scientists all working together to solve problems every day... you want to sort of make sure that the methods are being widely known and used everywhere. So it's not to starve innovation, it's really to enable innovation.”

Full Circle: The Gene Kim Interview

“It turns out that in 1986, he was doing engine design at Denso... using a Toshiba laptop, using Dbase-4 to solve all the frontline problems... Art Smalley is evidence that you don't have to be an Art Smalley. Any frontline worker can solve their own problems.”

Full Circle: The Gene Kim Interview

“As the cost of software delivery goes to zero... essentially all the real constraints of the organization now get elevated. So it's not about moving electrons, moving atoms is actually... where value is created.”

Full Circle: The Gene Kim Interview

“Once coding is free and instantaneous, you know, the bottom is everywhere else is merging and integration and then deployment and then feature specification.”

Full Circle: The Gene Kim Interview