by Matt Horvat | Feb 1, 2019 | Uncategorized
The Lean Portland Happy Hour focused theme for our January 1st Tuesday event was on Lean (and other) certifications. Nicole Sisco, Portland State Center of Executive and Professional Education started the conversation about their certificate programs and we discussed...
by Brion Hurley | Dec 16, 2018 | Local Events
Several volunteers from Lean Portland and a few nonprofit partners took a tour on November 21st, 2018 to learn how the Vancouver Clinic (VC) performs their daily management system for escalating problems. Tour attendees were John Ashcraft (Free Geek), Drew Koessler...
by Matt Horvat | Sep 18, 2018 | Local Events
By Bret Matthews Lean Portland members Ernest Mayer and Maria Grzanka co-presented the keynote at the Oregon Department of Human Services Annual Lean Academy Conference on August 14, 2018. The presentation was titled “Understanding Culture for Continuous...
by Matt Horvat | Mar 24, 2018 | Stories
Lots of fun work and humbling life lessons presented by Free Geek and ReBuilding Center at the Spring Forum of the Association of Oregon Recyclers. Thanks to Brion for all his work with environmental responsibility.
by Matt Horvat | Mar 3, 2018 | Stories
By Mike Alfoni, Project Manager Rebuilding Center Starting last summer the warehouse team with the support of Lean Portland started developing a project management and decision-making process for how things “get done” around here. We were faced with too...
by Matt Horvat | Feb 24, 2018 | Local Events
We’re excited to introduce a new conference that will be held April 14th, 2018 in Portland, Oregon! The theme of the conference is the Future of Work. It will be Open Space that will explore the intersection of Agile, Lean, Design Thinking, the Responsive...
by Matt Horvat | Feb 23, 2018 | Local Events
Lean Portland will be speaking about our volunteer work with reuse nonprofits at the upcoming Association of Oregon Recyclers (AOR) Spring Forum. The event is titled “Reuse Systems and Organizations in Action,” and will be held at McMenamins Kennedy School...
by Matt Horvat | Jan 24, 2018 | News
We’ve been trying to keeps costs to a minimum here at Lean Portland and had to stop using Meetup.com. There is a $15/month organizing fee that comes with groups as large as ours. Our events will now be on Eventbrite. For full details please visit...
