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 ...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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 ...
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...
I just returned from Software Development West, where I discovered that an unexpected part of Lean Software Development grabbed the attention of a surprising...
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...
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...
... -- Gregory A. Howell, P.E. Center for Innovation in Project and Production Management (Lean Construction Institute) Box 1003 (101 Alpine Drive for...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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 ...
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...
At LifeWare (www.lifeware.ch), we manage life insurance contracts for banks and insurance companies. Typically, the products we manage are too complicated for...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
Our colleagues from the Lean Construction movement [Lauri Koskela and Greg Howell] have extended their work on the theory underlying project management in The ...
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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