Hi John, first, thanks for your help. I already had a good knowledge about lean production from Taichii Ohno. So, the idea was very clear to me. Meanwhile I ...
Hi. One of the biggest problems of software development is to provide a clean, simple structure for the product, and to keep it from devolving into a chaotic...
Hi Stephan ( and Hi John!), In John’s last e-mail he noted that at the end of each iteration you have to have software that is: “production quality and ...
Hi, The lean tool Value Stream Mapping (VSM) looks like a very powerful instrument to me to talk to managers about how our slow and slack process is doing. But...
Hi, Do you live in Scotland (or like Hagis and have a generous travel budget)? If so then the Agile-Scotland group meets monthly in Edinburgh with the odd ...
In case you haven't heard about it yet, Mary Poppendieck has an article in the February issue of Software Development Magazine. She gives an excellent ...
I will be out of the office starting 01/20/2004 and will not return until 01/26/2004. If you need assistance right away, please contact Carol Borglum ...
The ability to attach documents to trouble tickets, the ability to see some (even basic) history tracking on each ticket, are the key things elementool does...
this e-mail wasn't supposed to go to the list. Sorry everybody! ... From: Mark Christensen Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 7:49 AM To: Subject: RE:...
Congratulations to Mary and Tom Poppendieck for "Lean Software Development" being nominated as a finalist in the 14th annual Jolt Awards. This nomination...
XP Agile Universe 2004 Call for Panels Proposals Calgary, Alberta, Canada August 15-18, 2004 www.agileuniverse.com www.xpuniverse.com Panel sessions provide a...
Just published in January and absolutely the most comprehensive, insightful, and wise book on Toyota. Jeff is the anchor in the Sobek- Ward-Liker trio that's...
What you term as lean manufacturing\development is actually post-fordism and was detailed in the late 80's by left-wing critics such as; David Harvey and...
Hubert, Amazon has it at this link: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0071392319/qid=1076598475/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-7182300-5297400?v=glance ...
Adrian, Hard to believe that those two gentleman fully grasped Toyota then. I know I didn't in the late '80s, even though I had the good fortune of dialog with...
Here is a good article on Lean Product Development: http://www.astm.org/cgi-bin/SoftCart.exe/BIZLINK/BusLinkA02/morgan.html?L+mystore+xkwz4376 Mary Poppendieck...
Mary Poppendieck, author of "Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit", will be speaking in Chicago at DePaul CTI's downtown campus this Friday February 27...
Hi Everyone, I'm currently writing up my MBA dissertation and I'm momentarily stuck. I want to show that IT development is a significant part of most product ...
Hi Clark, I would think that you have to narrow the selection of products you are thinking about before you could make the statement that IT is a significant...
Clark - A resource you need to start your argument with is Software By Numbers by Mark Denne and Jane Huang. We met Jane at a Chicago Agile Group last Friday...
Thanks Mary. Your experience fits with my guess and, since you and Tom are respected authors, I can footnote our "conversation" for the MBA .. they love that ...
Thanks Tom. I like Software by numbers. It, along with Waltzing with Bears provides the bulk of the justification for my recommendations. Clarke "Tom ...
The lean development book mentions using table-driven requirements. Could anyone explain this method please? Aidy ... This message and any attachment are...
I recently stayed up most of the night reading Product <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1892538091/poppendieckco-20> Development for the Lean Enterprise...
Mary, I met Michael at a conference we both spoke at in November and have exchanged a couple of emails with him since. He is very interested in the agile...
FYI - slides for two of the three presentations mentioned below are now available online. Please see the URLs inserted below ... Slides available at...
On the webpage at http://www.poppendieck.com/publications.htm there is a presentation on "Lean Programming" dated May 2001 that lists the "ten simple rules of...
