An interesting article about IT at Toyota can be found at: http://www.baselinemag.com/article2/0,1540,2011734,00.asp?kc=BLCIOEMLP090506 KAT0 My favorite quote...
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Brad Appleton
bradapp1
Sep 10, 2006 2:02 pm
I will be participating in a "panel discussion" in about two weeks at IEEE COMSAC on the subject of "Just Enough Requirements Traceability" ...
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Mary Poppendieck
mpoppendieck
Sep 14, 2006 8:43 am
As of today, Amazon.com has started shipping our new book, Implementing <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0321437381/poppendieckco-20> Lean Software...
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Kyle R. Larson
kylerlarson
Sep 17, 2006 6:16 pm
Implementing Lean Software Development: Practitioners Course 2 Day Workshop Presented by: Mary and Tom Poppendieck December 6-7, 2006 Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN ...
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Alan Shalloway
alshalloway
Sep 21, 2006 1:28 pm
Lean Software Development: For Corporate Management and the Development Team 2 Day Course Last Time Offered at 2 for 1 Pricing Presented by: Alan Shalloway,...
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Alex Pukinskis
alexpukinskis
Sep 28, 2006 4:45 pm
I¹ve often heard that what makes Toyota unique is that it¹s able to harness the intellect of average people. I can see how TPS might make this true for ...
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Mary Poppendieck
mpoppendieck
Sep 29, 2006 12:42 am
Probably the most extensive answer to this question is found in "The Toyota Product Development System" by Morgan and Liker, in Chapter 9: Develop Towering...
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Phlip
phlipcpp
Sep 29, 2006 8:21 pm
... Aviara Oaks Middle School is a recently-constructed campus, nestled in the heart of the suburban growth zone of Carlsbad, California. It has an excellent...
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David Carlton
carlton_db
Oct 5, 2006 5:52 am
Recently, there's been a Google-related discussion going on in the XP mailing list; that reminded me of something Mary said in one of her talks at Agile 2006....
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Keith Nicholas
keithworking
Oct 5, 2006 6:38 am
What if, the pet projects people end up working on are tools to make their own lives easier? Or play with a design ideas? Or create a nifty framework? Or...
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allan kelly
allan_kelly
Oct 5, 2006 9:10 am
... I've read a few Google blogs in the last few months and the 20% thing seems a little dubious. I read one blog this week were the Googler said "They take...
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Ron Jeffries
ronaldejeffries
Oct 5, 2006 10:53 am
Hello David, thank you for your ideas. On Wednesday, October 4, ... Well ... that's not so clear. If your team is a bottleneck, and you can improve...
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Ron Jeffries
ronaldejeffries
Oct 5, 2006 11:33 am
Hello allan, thank you for the email quoted here. On Thursday, ... I've often seen these systems done with several columns on the wall, indicating things like ...
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Kevin Rutherford
rutherfordso...
Oct 5, 2006 11:54 am
Hi Ron, ... I'm currently working with a project where history dictated we introduce several wait states on the board: - defects waiting to be fixed - fixes...
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tal_ovadia@...
elak8x
Oct 5, 2006 3:28 pm
I like the Kanban approach, and I think it brings the visibility into clear view. However in my case half of my development and most of my QA groups are in a...
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Bartels, Mel
Mel_Bartels
Oct 5, 2006 3:54 pm
... that Google's policy of letting people spend 20% of their time pursuing pet projects actually helps their productivity. I'm a manager of a software team;...
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David Carlton
carlton_db
Oct 5, 2006 4:00 pm
... That's probably what would happen. I have one or two projects like that that I'd like to get around to doing... ... I guess I'm a bit dubious the utility...
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Mary Poppendieck
mpoppendieck
Oct 5, 2006 4:01 pm
Hi David, I lived with the 3M 15% time for two decades. Here are a couple of things to note about how it actually worked in practice: 1. The 15% rule...
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Alan Shalloway
alshalloway
Oct 5, 2006 4:05 pm
I'm afraid I don't have time to make a complete answer but when you look for bottlenecks you should do two things: 1) pay attention to "optimizing the whole" ...
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Chris Hulan
fosaan2001
Oct 5, 2006 4:11 pm
... From: tal_ovadia@... I like the Kanban approach, and I think it brings the visibility into clear view. However in my case half of my...
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David Carlton
carlton_db
Oct 5, 2006 4:21 pm
... Yeah, that's what we're doing now. ... That's an interesting idea: it will help give visibility into what other groups are causing us to work at less than...
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Mary Poppendieck
mpoppendieck
Oct 5, 2006 4:21 pm
Mel, Rally Software Development is in more or less the same position that you are - they have to churn out software. They used to have development cycles of ...
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David Carlton
carlton_db
Oct 5, 2006 4:37 pm
... Yup. ... I suspect that we have a product management bottleneck. I think we're probably covering that up by guessing more often than we should what's the...
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Tom Poppendieck
tpoppendieck
Oct 5, 2006 4:38 pm
David - The lesson for queuing theory is not really about the good things that can be accomplished by applying the slack time. Rather the lesson is that if ...
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allan kelly
allan_kelly
Oct 5, 2006 5:05 pm
... Well, in our case there are two answers. The project I've been product managing was a web app so once we completed an iteration we released. Every two...
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Bartels, Mel
Mel_Bartels
Oct 5, 2006 5:18 pm
... the second week? Instead of shortening the development cycle, they started something they call 'hack-a-thon'. After 6 weeks of development and one week...
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allan kelly
allan_kelly
Oct 5, 2006 5:30 pm
... I am increasingly of the opinion that as developer tools and techniques have improved the bottleneck for the whole industry has moved from the development...
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Tom Poppendieck
tpoppendieck
Oct 5, 2006 6:28 pm
David - Over a decade ago, when Jeff Sutherland invented Scrum, he was faced with a situation in which his product development process bottleneck was the ...
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Keith Nicholas
keithworking
Oct 5, 2006 8:46 pm
You know what the highest value short term thing is perhaps....we still leverage lots of internal tools that we developed with free time play, they increase...
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Phlip
phlipcpp
Oct 6, 2006 1:08 pm
Question for anyone who read the whole thread (I was busy!): Has anyone suggested "ask everyone where they think the bottleneck is"? Put another way, if a...
