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...
Hi all, Can anyone recommend any other "good" lists/groups that cover lean / agile development? For the moment, I'm more interested in the big picture than the...
Clark - This would depend on your goal for interacting with a group. If your primary objective is to learn about agile approaches, the best free resource I am...
Clyde Cutting and Gary Jedynak are working on the concept of 'assessment' instead of certification to determine the level of skill a person has. (See...
Absolutely agree. Consistent, repeatable performance is what is matters, not the outliers. Mary Poppendieck www.poppendieck.com <http://www.poppendieck.com/> ...
Hello Keith, Although the Lean Development book dose have several lengthy sidebars describing projects doing lean development, I would not call it the main ...
I wrote this as the introduction to an editorial recently: In the middle of the 20th century, dozens of countries and millions of people believed that central...
Since scrum is "purely" management practices, it does not have to solely apply to software projects, and is reported to have been applied to other kinds of...
I hope you will consider attending this excellent conference, at which the book Lean Development: An Agile Toolkit will be introduced. Tom and I will be...
