Question 8—How Will We Create the Pitch at the Pacemaker?

P itch refers to how often we release and take away work from the pace-maker. It provides us with a management time frame.1 It is a mea-surement of how the value stream, or more specifically the pacemaker, is performing to our schedule. If we set a schedule for a week, it will take us a week before we know we have met the schedule. If we set a schedule for a day, it will take us a day before we know we have met the schedule. What if we schedule every hour? The pitch increment should be small enough to allow us to react to problems and still ship to customers on time.