Review & Release Process

Bringing Flow to the Review and Release Process

Published by Gerard Doorley in Lean Laboratory, Lean QA on January 17, 2019

The concept of flow is a key element in achieving lean operations. This fact has not gone unnoticed by laboratories but many still struggle to achieve real flow and very often the final review and release of samples can prove to be somewhat of a bottle neck. The final review and release tasks should not be thought of as being autonomous or decoupled from the testing process and should be incorporated in the flowed process.