Lean Process Improvement Through Béarnaise Sauce

Or… How lean process improvement can be applied to just about everything in your life to eliminate waste in resources. Plus, you will have a delicious sauce at the end which will impress everybody that you know.

A photograph of a plate with some grilled lobster tails, salad and bread, with a container of sauce in the foreground. So, probably not an image of béarnaise sauce — but it does look delicious. (Photo by Davide Cantelli on Unsplash)

TL;DR¹

How lean process improvement can affect every facet of your life, looking at it through the lens of making béarnaise sauce — with some side servings of life advice that I try to impart to my children.

It is about questioning and evaluating everything that you do, and trying to improve your life, with small steps at every point — so that you can concentrate on the things that you love (like coding, or writing medium articles).

Lean Process Improvement

What is Lean?

Originating in Japanese manufacturing, Lean is a methodology that focuses on eliminating waste. Waste can come in many forms — from superfluous motion to wasted raw materials and nonproductive time.

Although this came from delivering value to customers, and increasing profits for a company, I apply this principle to my everyday life to eliminate time-wasting so that I can concentrate on…