Lean/ Agile at Standard Life (one of the biggest IT departments in Scotland) from http://license.icopyright.net/user/viewFreeUse.act?fuid=NTQzODg2 : Lean, the...
This is an updated version of the foreword. I removed the other message to avoid confusion. This is an extremely rough draft for the foreword to our upcoming...
Dear group, I am noticing several usability issues with using this group in Yahoo. Is it just me or are there some problems here? * Lines get split after only...
Hi, You can control some of this via your settings for the egroup at groups.yahoo.com. You also control some by how your personal software is set on your pc. ...
A NEW SHIGEO SHINGO BOOK November 9, 2007 Vancouver, Washington Announcing a new hardcover Shigeo Shingo book, Kaizen and the Art of Creative Thinking. Once...
Hi Alan, I liked the forward and look forward to reading the book. What occurs to me thinking about the industry transitioning from a craft to a profession as...
... and ... what ... the ... the ... I do agree we have a problem with tools. But I think that's because they tend to do too much. Many tools try to create...
Oh finally your going to release this! I spent a bunch of time commenting on the drafts on it then it went dead.... I gave up on it.... There was some good...
Can anyone provide an example from the real life software world for the communication of constraints? The example on Poppendieck's "Lean Software Development"...
Join, Lean thinker and Scrum expert Roman Pichler, for this free Skills Matter In-the-Brain session as he introduces the core lean management principles...
Hey SkillsMatter.Marketing, You're going to annoy a lot of people emailing these "commercials" out about geographically based courses to these non-geographical...
Hi, In a few weeks Mary & Tom Poppendieck will teach their Implementing Lean Software Development - practitioners course in Charlotte on Jan 28-29. See here...
Maybe I am in the minority here, but I am actually interested in getting announcements of different courses being offered (here: Poppendiecks) and in the...
You're right, Arun, we do depend on discussion lists to keep up to date with events and courses, and courses are by their nature local. Mary Poppendieck ...
I actually like them too. I think there might have been some extra irritation with Skills Matter because they had overly done announcements at the Lean Agile...
Hi, In a few weeks Jeff Sutherland will lead a Certified ScrumMaster course in NYC on Feb 28-29. Jeff is the co-creator of Scrum. He also includes XP and Lean...
The talk I gave at Agile 2007 on leadership is now available on the web at: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/poppendieck-agile-leadership. Mary Poppendieck ...
Also, keep in mind that there's an Agile announcement list http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/Agile-ANN/ where you can sign up for only announcments. Who...
Hi all, I've got a development team which converted from a waterfall (BUFD) approach to agile software development methodology approximately one year ago....
Sounds to me you are already on the right tack and you know the answers yourself. Iteration length depends on a lot of things, how much variability there is in...
Get rid of QA. I mean this quite seriously; QA as an "end of the line" test process is something that went out in manufacturing several decades ago. The...
Hi, I am not, personally, in favor of the 2-week or 1-week iterations. I feel they put a bit too much strain on the developers (they must be at their highest...
I suggest that the team should do some experiments and find the best iteration length(s). In order to do experiments, the team needs to know what it is trying...
As you state below, there is certainly some iteration "overhead" which is incurred each time. We typically spend ~2-3hrs in iteration planning and mini-task...
Mary, When you say PatientKeeper uses one quarter as the iteration lenght for a "new application" are you really saying that they have a single iteration...
Great presentation. Thanks! ... From: leandevelopment@yahoogroups.com [mailto:leandevelopment@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Mary Poppendieck Sent: Tuesday,...
