We (innovel) have been helping various teams in non IT settings for quite a while now. Can you give more detail on the team and kind of work? I don't think...
Whenever Jim Womack write a letter (see his letters at LEAN.org) it is useful, I think, to post them also here. This Yahoo board is an example of Yokoten. I...
/* related to this thread...*/ I am looking for a job description of a 'lean & agile' Project Leader (PL). The goal is not to be buzzword-compliant but rather ...
Hi all. I'd like to compile a list of references on how to take measurements for software process improvement - books, online papers would be good but anything...
Hi Paul, On our web site you can find a thinking tool for use when designing diagnostics and metrics. www.innovel.net in the articles section. Cheers, Robin...
To Whom It May Concern, My name is Donald Buresh, and I am a Ph.D. student at Northcentral University located in Prescott Valley, Arizona. The reason that I am...
Robin, ... Thanks for pointing to this. I had skimmed the article in the Agile 2006 Proceedings but reading over it again offered some insight to some recent...
I highly recommend "Measuring and Managing Performance in Organizations"by Robert D. Austin. It's not about software specifically, but it discusses important...
Hi Paul, Our blog site http://softwareintegrityblog.com is a reference for Quality, Metrics and Measurements and even has some Lean Development stuff (Video...
Paul, DevCreek (www.devcreek.com) is a site for gathering individual and team metrics. Currently we gather and report on testing activity and Bugzilla ...
... I second the pointer to Austin's book on measuring organizations. It gives great insights into the dangers of poorly chosen measurements or misused...
Hi Tamara & Skip, Tamara, it sounds like you're is a good situation and I agree with your advice to Skip. Skip, I would like to think that a PMO in an...
Thanks to all who have provided suggestions. I have the two books on order and am trawling through the other references. If any more suggestions come in, I'll...
I believe that I remember a mention of process oscillations in a talk on Lean Software Development that Mary gave in Austin a couple of years ago. I don't know...
In control theory, oscillation can occur when feedback is too frequent. The trick is to tune a system so that the feedback is frequent enough to keep it in...
The book isn't specifically about measurement for SPI but it's so good that I should recommend it for anything about measurement. "How to Measure Anything" I...
... frequent. The ... to keep it ... I just observed that in a team I'm presently coaching : they're oscillating because of too frequent feedback. Or rather,...
Hello, thomas. On Tuesday, March 25, 2008, at 4:54:17 AM, you ... Could you please describe what actually happened, what the oscillation consisted of and how...
What's oscillation? Once when I was an engineer, I was programming a control algorithm for an automated vehicle. This software was supposed to control the...
At the SEPG conference last week, there was a keynote presentation the head of the Air Force's Research Lab. He was talking about "swarm" technology where all...
I see bottlenecks accreting around testing efforts on projects that I've been on for the past couple of years. I still see the testing brick wall in place on...
Hi Jef, ... When it comes to an expert workforce crafting collectively-owned code, my experience tells me that it's easier to bring a developer up to speed in ...
I recently posted an article called "The Role of Quality Assurance in Lean-Agile Software Development" on our resources section. This is actually a chapter in...
"Too much" feedback need not be a problem. In the Air Traffic Control system I worked on, there was a feature called "Manoeuvre Detection". In theory one...
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