Apologies in advance if this email does not apply to you… I would like to inform you of the next meeting of the Thames Valley Agile Special Interest Group....
All, Apologies if you receive the following message more then once. On October 11 & 12 Mary Poppendieck will be running the Lean Software Development course in...
I'm a frustrated agilist: I know alot about agile, I can talk a good agile talk, and I've even given a couple "Agile Talks". But I don't do agile. Why? There...
Apologies if you receive this message more than once. After the success of the first Open Day for Managers on Extreme Programming (XP) and Agile Methods held...
Has anyone been successful at being both agile and compliant with Sarbanes Oxley? I just had my first brush with the Sarbanes Oxley Act on a project. We have a...
Has anyone been successful at being both agile and compliant with Sarbanes Oxley? I just had my first brush with the Sarbanes Oxley Act on a project. We have a...
Sigh. SOX is like Y2K all over again: fear dominating common sense. I too would love to hear Agile SOX stories. Mary Poppendieck www.poppendieck.com ...
Hi Mary, ... Hmmm... Is it big enough to create another artificial bubble in the tech world, like Y2K did? Dale -- Dale Emery, Consultant Collaborative...
I've read in at least one place that SOX will indeed create a large bubble of non-value-added technical work. I read in another place that smart companies are...
I do believe your approach is very logical and likely would address the goals of the SOX requirements. However, there are two factors that may make it...
Thanks John, your approach makes sense to me also. And yet, we have one of the Big Five accounting firms that simply disappeared without a trace a couple of...
Hi Jonathan, I am forwarding your question to the lean development group, where more people may have some ideas on overproduction of features in the supposed...
Good Day, I seem to have lost my (physical) book mark to the phrase "duration of accountability" in "Lean Software Development - An Agile Toolkit". Can anyone...
I've searched the book text and can't find this phrase or anything like it. Do you recall the context? Mary Poppendieck www.poppendieck.com 952-934-7998 ...
Mary, Thank you for the quick response! After reading your response I retrieved another one of my books in the "Agile Software Development Series", "Agile...
There are two things that keep change from being discontinuous. First of all, most companies have an underlying culture, and the culture will inform most...
She's too modest to toot her own horn, so I'll do it for her... Tomorrow from 1pm-2pm Central Time is Mary Poppendieck's online seminar on Lean Development! ...
Starting next week, my company, Rally Software, is hosting a series of free webinars around Agile Software Development to include speakers such as Mike Cohn,...
Dear Colleagues, I am a seasoned executive and a management consultant with 20 years of Information Technology experience across Financial, Healthcare, ...
Apologies if you receive this message more than once. ... Call For Participation XP Day Benelux 2004 19 November 2004 Mechelen, Belgium http://www.xpday.net ...
The following course will be offered in San Jose on November 8 and 9. Implementing Lean Software Development Long feedback loops are the biggest cause of waste...
To "Amplify Learning", Mary Poppendieck suggests in her book, on page 46: "If strata teams work for machine interfaces, consider them for user intefaces also. ...
FYI - for those who are interested, the article just appeared online at: <http://www.cmcrossroads.com/article/34375> Portions of this were discussed at one...
... Thanks Alistair! I had some similar feedback from Scott Ambler as well. I had actually meant to use a different graph. I have since updated the article to...
... Wow - thanks! Yes - it my own. I slaved away in powerpoint over the course of a week until I arrived at something that came close to what I wanted. I'm...
Hi Brad, I belevie there is a mistake on that grafic... The Depth-First decision making approach should refer to Waterfall Lifecycle. So you need to invert the...
... I guess it depends on how you draw it :-) In my case, since I drew the waterfall model with phases as rows, the waterfall model is breadth-first because it...
To me, breadth first means delay irreversible decisions until the most knowledge is gained. Depth first means make detailed decisions early, thus casting them...
