Hello Mary, Did you get a chance to post examples of value stream map somewhere online? I am very interested to see these examples like many other readers of...
Hello Yuri, Just got back to my office. I hope to get to this shortly, but want to think about it and I have a ton of catch-up work to do first. Cheers! Mary...
Hi, At one of two different times at Agile 2007 I hope you will join a group of us to discuss Business Value: What is it? and What do we do about it?. Here...
I'm looking for some help on what venue (conference, periodical, street corner, etc.) would be right for something I'd like to put forth (or to be told, "we've...
Yes, it'll be available later this week. Alan Shalloway, CEO, Sr. Consultant Net Objectives, Gold Level Sponsor of Agile 2007. 425-269-8991 Integrating people,...
... Have I ever! Can you say corporate IT? ... Not by the folks that make the rules ( read own the budgets ), IMO. ... I'd like to hear what you have to say....
Mark, ? Over 5 years I was involved at ThoughtWorks with agile software delivery engagements inside?Fortune 100 companies and also?building internal Agile...
Mark, I would love to hear more about what you have learned and so I hope you find some ways to share your insights. Here is a place to look for listings of...
[snip] ... What I'm about to say is based on my experience developing software in large IT shops and may not be apply to other areas. In my experience a kind...
Here's a start (from Toyota's web site): The Toyota Way of doing business centers on respect for people and continuous improvement. And to maintain this...
I favor an exchange student program. It's the best way to learn another culture. Have developers spend time supporting their systems. Or have them spend a...
... Don't get me wrong, these ideas resonate deeply with me. I just don't see many IT shops staffing the "best". The best are expensive and by definition...
... There aren't any solutions that work very well for the mediocre. There couldn't possibly be: even if we wrote down a perfect solution, the mediocre could...
... I guess that depends upon what you mean by mediocre. Mediocre in ability but willing to work together as a team? Mediocre in all areas? Mediocre in the...
... I'm not so optimistic. However, "medium" and "mediocre" do not carry the same connotation. I would think that people who were medium could improve their...
... I guess I thought you had meant medium. You are right, they are different. I agree, good people following a good process will do even better. ... I was...
Hello, I am a PhD student at Nova Southeastern University and I also work full time as a VP of Business Systems Delivery for a manufacturing company in the...
I don't buy the idea of mediocre people. Garry Hamel (the Strategy Guy) wrote in his article "Management Innovation" in the 2/2006 Harvard Business Review: ...
... Mary: Thanks for this. :) I am so uneloquent at times! :( I get dibs on your first clone (a mini-Mary) I can carry around to say what I mean to say. I'm...
Hello, Alan. On Tuesday, August 7, 2007, at 11:05:14 PM, you ... Certainly skill alone is not sufficient. However, I'd like to hear you relate the above...
... My point was not that there are "bad" people but rather that business -- especially IT given that it is a cost center -- is driven to hire the cheapest...
Lynn, ? In a nutshell, the problems that Lean Software Develpment attempts to address?are the very high costs to build even very low quality software.? Most...
I wonder if "processes" as used in the agile manifesto tended to refer to a comprehensive series of instructions to be carried out by rote as opposed to a more...
Hello, Mary. On Wednesday, August 8, 2007, at 12:17:00 PM, you ... Would you agree that well-trained people who can do the job well and can constantly improve...
"well trained"...Tying together some of the earlier posts- it seems like a lot of companies hire cheaper employees, as pointed out, but also don't then invest...
... +1 ... How do we measure this value? Specifically, when developing internally facing IT systems, value measurement becomes tricky as we don't have revenue...
Hello, Peter. On Wednesday, August 8, 2007, at 2:01:26 PM, you ... So ... imagine that you valued the things on the left over the things on the right. What...
... My problem with this question is that you are positioning them against each other. That assumes there is opposition. That one has to be opposed to the...
