MessageIt does indeed. Thanks. Thanks Clarke ... From: Kent Beck [mailto:kent@...] Sent: 01 March 2003 02:00 To:...
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Mary Poppendieck
mpoppendieck
Mar 2, 2003 1:08 am
Hi Pete, I agree with you, it is often very difficult to get a customer to set priorities. Sometimes I think it because it is a lot of work and they don't ...
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Kent Beck
kentlbeck
Mar 4, 2003 12:14 pm
I had a programmer tell me just the other day, "I don't trust product management not to screw up the business." What can you say? In this case product...
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Colin Rand
colin_74
Mar 4, 2003 2:22 pm
Hi, I'm new to this group, but I think that I have been using an interesting technique to help developers (myself included) to trust that managers are making...
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Lowell Lindstrom
omlowell
Mar 4, 2003 5:18 pm
Thanks for sharing the experience and technique. Would it be accurate to interpret these as a form of acceptance test? Lowell...
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Colin Rand
colin_74
Mar 4, 2003 6:25 pm
I don't think so. An acceptance test checks to see that the customer's needs are met. Using SPCs show the (de)stabilizing effect the feature has on the system....
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Lowell Lindstrom
omlowell
Mar 4, 2003 6:49 pm
It sounds like these are metrics on the business process that the software will impact. I teach something I call "stakeholders tests." The basic idea is...
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Mary Poppendieck
mpoppendieck
Mar 4, 2003 7:58 pm
Colin, This sounds very interesting. When I worked in a plant we had something called 'Programs for Profit'. (P4P) Every time an improvement was made, no ...
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timocock
Mar 9, 2003 6:48 pm
I would like to hear from anybody in this group who is interested in working with me to adapt the Bradford production game to a software context (rather than a...
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Mary Poppendieck
mpoppendieck
Mar 31, 2003 4:16 pm
I just returned from Software Development West, where I discovered that an unexpected part of Lean Software Development grabbed the attention of a surprising...
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Hal Macomber
HalMac3
Mar 31, 2003 5:08 pm
Hi Mary, This might be somewhat off base. In construction projects the project manager and project architect often have access to the proforma for the...
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clarke_ching@...
sl466g
Apr 1, 2003 9:08 am
I will be out of the office starting 14/03/2003 and will not return until 07/04/2003. I'm off on holiday in New Zealand. Please contact Jackie Fairbairn. For...
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Gregory Howell
ghlci
Apr 1, 2003 2:16 pm
... -- Gregory A. Howell, P.E. Center for Innovation in Project and Production Management (Lean Construction Institute) Box 1003 (101 Alpine Drive for...
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Mary Poppendieck
mpoppendieck
Apr 1, 2003 7:34 pm
Greg, I would really like to know more about an investment mentality. Anything that Boldt is doing is probably well worth understanding! I will always be...
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Mary Poppendieck
mpoppendieck
Apr 2, 2003 3:36 am
I recently received an e-mail from Jeff Conklin, one of the early writers on Wicked Problems. He sent me a new link to post: ...
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Kent Beck
kentlbeck
Apr 2, 2003 12:30 pm
Pay per use projects have a real advantage in maintaining an investment perspective. For example, imagine that you are running a messaging service where folks...
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David J. Anderson
netherby_uk
Apr 2, 2003 7:53 pm
Huh? Maybe "freeze the scope" would be a better wording. Doesn't Scrum freeze the scope of a Sprint for 30 days. Freezing the scope i.e. "no more changes" is a...
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Mary Poppendieck
mpoppendieck
Apr 3, 2003 10:34 am
Kent, I really like this concept of 'pay per use' projects, but never heard of it before. Can you recommend a place to go for more information? Mary...
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David Putman (DavidPu...
davidputmanuk
Apr 3, 2003 10:46 am
On the subject of investment, I've recently been preparing a white paper on expected ROI for projects. Looking at ways of comparing the expected outcomes, etc....
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Willem van den Ende
willemvanden...
Apr 3, 2003 2:36 pm
Hi, It's very nice to see more people in sofware development are interested in sharing the economy of a business with the ones who do the 'actual work' as ...
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Colin Rand
colin_74
Apr 3, 2003 3:10 pm
Willem, You have mentioned one of the most important points of decision making, feed back loops. When deciding on a best path, we all recognize that we are...
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Kent Beck
kentlbeck
Apr 4, 2003 12:22 pm
At LifeWare (www.lifeware.ch), we manage life insurance contracts for banks and insurance companies. Typically, the products we manage are too complicated for...
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Mary Poppendieck
mpoppendieck
Apr 4, 2003 2:01 pm
Hi Willem, Influence Diagramming sounds similar to Balanced Scorecard. Do you see them as similar? I have heard of people using Balanced Scorecard...
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Mike Cohn
mikewcohn
Apr 4, 2003 3:56 pm
Hi Mary- I've never created a balanced scorecard for a specific project but I have created them for Engineering departments as a whole. I've found that to be ...
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Willem van den Ende
willemvanden...
Apr 7, 2003 5:46 pm
Hi Mary, I've never used Balanced Scorecard. I have heard the word, but that is about all I know about it. I would be interested in a good literature reference...
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Mike Cohn
mikewcohn
Apr 7, 2003 5:59 pm
Balanced Scorecard is an idea from Robert Kaplan and David Norton. Their book on it is simply called "The Balanced Scorecard" (I believe they've come out with...
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David J. Anderson
netherby_uk
Apr 7, 2003 7:19 pm
We use Balanced Scorecard at Motorola but I haven't been here long enough to comment as to its value. Interestingly, in the current edition of Harvard Business...
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Tom Poppendieck
tpoppendieck
Apr 11, 2003 7:27 pm
Our colleagues from the Lean Construction movement [Lauri Koskela and Greg Howell] have extended their work on the theory underlying project management in The ...
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attkeithray
Apr 20, 2003 11:26 pm
I'd like to know what company Bruce Ferguson works for... this sidebar would be more credible to the managers I want to show it to, if I could point them to an...
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Mary Poppendieck
mpoppendieck
Apr 21, 2003 1:24 am
Bruce Ferguson is VP of sales at ThoughtWorks. Mary Poppendieck www.poppendieck.com <http://www.poppendieck.com/> 952-934-7998 Author of Lean ...
