A new tutorial was recently added to the upcoming XP Agile Universe 2003 conference schedule for Sunday afternoon, August 10th. The Agile Customer's Toolkit...
I would like to invite everyone on this list to a couple of workshops at OOPSLA. On Sunday, October 26th, Jens Coldewey, Pete McBreen and I will be hosting a...
Hi all, This is a bit off-topic, but the following PDF is an extract from a book about process and quality improvement called "Mind your Ps and Qs" by David ...
Clark - A quick read of the excerpt you pointed to struck me as not agile in principle. The starting point of Covey's argument is that quality means...
Hi Clarke, A couple of years ago I was a speaker at Project World in Anaheim. As one of the features of the conference, we toured Disneyland 'Underground' to...
Hi Tom and Mary, You're both dead right. My last paragraph was badly writen and didn't say at all what I meant to. That said, both responses have helped...
Hi Clarke, I agree, Lean Software Development is hard work and requires a lot of discipline! In the excerpt from "Mind your Ps and Qs", David Covey starts out...
I think that the essence of this is the contribution of SPC (Statistic Process Control) to TPS/Lean. The Covey book - as is typical of Western approachs to ...
Hello again Mary, Sorry for my delayed response to your notes. I'm not being impolite, just on holiday and laptopless.. ... suites. I suspect that if ... ...
slight corretion to my last post: Hello again Mary, Sorry for my delayed response to your notes. I'm not being impolite, just on holiday and laptopless.. ... ...
Hi Clarke, I also have been on vacation, so I'm getting back to you a bit late also. All of the things you do to mistake-proof analysis are very useful. But ...
Hi Mary, Just wanted some clarification from your point of view - isn't Disneyland's new staff training practice of teaching each and every one of their new...
At 3M we were taught that managers should communicate what needs to be done, not how to do it. In the Marines, leaders are taught to communicate end state and...
... FYI, I am an Agile Methods proponent - just that I believe repeatable processes have a place even in the most Agile organizations. -=-=- Faisal, Well said!...
I believe that you may be in screaming agreement here. I don't see anything in Faisal's post to suggest that he was advocating prescriptive deterministic...
Hi Mary, A few weeks ago I ordered your new book "Lean Development". I haven't got it yet, it is on its way to Europe. But something inside tells me that I...
I just finished reading David Schmaltz's book: The <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1576752534/poppendieckco-20> Blind Men and The Elephant: Mastering...
I just finished a wonderful book: "Artful Making" by Rob Austin and Lee Devin. In this book, Rob and Lee talk about how a theatre company develops a play,...
... Interesting! However, it sounds as though it would be a different book with different conclusions if they had picked a different art medium to analyze, for...
One of my favorite articles on Lean Manufacturing is by Gary Convis, President, Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky: The Role of Management in a Lean...
Yesterday I re-discovered the Lean Enterprise Institute web site, which is run by Jim Womack and Daniel Jones. They wrote the book "The Machine That Changed...
The Sep 8th issue of Information Week has an article about how Gateway just cut 450 jobs after laying off 1,900 people (20% of its workforce) during the first...
I have been doing more research on Randy Mott, currently CIO at Dell, formerly CIO at Wal-Mart. If you are looking for proof that lean development works, you...
Mary, in one of your articles on lean development, you said that 80% of bugs come from the forces outside of the control of the individual programmer (bugs...
Hi Keith, This has been variously attributed to Deming and Juran. Deming had his 14 famous points for management, which are published in various places,...
... While not reporting that statistic directly, in QSM Vol 1, Weinberg discusses work done by Glass that showed that schedule stress was the root cause of 40%...
I just saw this on StickyMinds.com. It appears to be yet another methodology named XPM. A quick reading reveals it certainly seems to share many things from...
FYI - there is a stickmind.com roundtable discussion going on regarding "Finding the Requirements 'Sweet Spot'" hosted by Ellen Gottesdiener (who has...
Has anyone participated in kaizen events, whether software-related or not? Please tell us about it. (See <http://homepage.mac.com/keithray/blog/2003/09/21/>...
