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/>...
In the late 1980's our plant switched over from a push schedule to a pull schedule. We made video cassettes, and typically an order would take a month to get...
At Software Development Best Practices in Boston last week, Watts Humphrey gave a keynote talk, and, never having heard him before, I thought I should sit in....
Is anyone on this list familiar with so called "Lean Six Sigma"? If so, what are you impressions of it (particularly for software development) and does it...
Brad, You may try looking at the Software Channel on iSixSigma.com <http://software.isixsigma.com/> Here is one article that may help explain Lean Six Sigma......
Nice links, Brian. On the same subject, does anyone have a comparison of Six Sigma and Design for Six Sigma (DFSS), or experience with both? Mary Poppendieck ...
Mary, We went through the PSP/TSP training and coaching in SEU. TSP is a reasonable process, but it is fed by PSP data. PSP's key risk mitigator are: * Heavy...
Brad, I provides a good model to deploy coaches for organization improvement in a large organization. It is often hard to justify the cost of overall...
Thanks for your detailed explanation of PSP/TSP Michael. I wasn't aware that PSP was so heavily interwoven into TSP; one certainly would not have guessed it...
... I wish I had more choices on how to run a project -- being able to pick the staff, arrange the environment, acquire training, and so on... -- C. Keith Ray ...
Thanks for the details. I am simply appalled by PSP; it violates everything I ever learned about making a quality product. I do not buy the underlying...
In an effort to increase the quantity and quality of online resources for retrospective facilitators, I decided to host the FacMan Wiki. At William Pietri's...
I am very intrigued by the concept of using Value Stream Mapping to reduce waste in software development processes. Are there any good on-line references or...
I started reading a great book by Barry Boehm and Richard Turner, "Balancing Agility and Discipline". This book uses an assessment system to define which...
Alex, I haven't heard much about value stream mapping being used in software development, so I don't have a software reference beyond the first chapter of my...
Everyone-- I got the new C/C++ User's Journal (vol. 21, no. 10, October 2003) about two weeks ago and finally read it last night. There's a great article...
This link http://www.nature.com/nsu/030929/030929-2.html is to a paper where a researcher says that bus arrival times are unpredictable and affected by chaos. ...
Hi Mike, ... They would become a lean personal transportation company. Beaming up, Dale -- Dale Emery -- Consultant -- Resistance as a Resource Web:...
How about the 'Super Shuttle' concept that you see at most major airports? Mary Poppendieck www.poppendieck.com Author of Lean Software Development: An Agile...
