Exciting news about the Lean & Kanban 2009 Conference released today... Quite simply the greatest ever assembled group of experts in Lean software development...
I don't know how often I've cited this quote! My favorite illustration of this is on the cover of a the book "Distributed Systems, 2nd ed." by Sape Mullender,...
I went to a Twin_SPIN meeting last night and heard a presentation from the SEI on how to tailor the CMMI model to small development efforts. She was a good...
I think there are good ideas within the CMMI and complementary ideas to Lean, but the packaging sucks and the whole CMM brand is poisoned. I don't see how the...
Ah if only should were coulds and woulds were wills. I somehow wish mr Humphreys would appear on this blog and provide us with tales of the early and wondrous...
Tomofrommn: There have been significant advances in the "leaning" of the CMMI in the past four or five years. It turns out that the CMMI model suites provides...
Corey, You certainly don't mince any words! I remember when CMM was a new thing and how relieved I was to hear that people were trying to do something about...
I agree Stuart. Good points. As much as it's easy to poke holes at the dysfunction of trying to apply some of Taylor's ideas to the modern knowledge work...
There is lots of information on Lean + CMMI on the web. Google will take you there. Including topics in aerospace and defense, where Lean and CMMI have been...
Mike, Corey needs to visit the SW Dev shops of manned space flight, deep space navigation and control and Joint Strike Fighter flight stability controls, oh...
Nancy, As you mention the "leaning" of CMMI has been underway for some time. The Continuous model of CMM is missed. As well, implementation tools have been ...
I wonder this myself Robin. You could ask the same of Waterfall? How did such a wasteful, inefficient process ever come to dominate software delivery the way...
I think it is partially due to change management, where the current leadership layer is "trapped". For example, if you have 4 vice-presidents with the...
I went to an Agile presentation yesterday that suggested that you could improve communications by breaking up the little teams and getting everyone (except the...
That is a dumb idea. Whoever gave the presentation had no clue. Most people are not systems thinkers. When people don't understand systems thinking they...
Draw a diagram with each person as a circle and connect each circle with a line representing the communication path and their relationship. Start with 2 then...
Hello Tomofrommn, Like the others, I haven't heard about the idea you refer to. I see the communication problem though, in a project with more then a 100...
in the late 1990's, Durward Sobek spent 6 months at Toyota studying the way Toyota develops cars. He learned Japanese just to be able to do this. Then he spend...
... I think a lot of it has to do with computer science getting sucked into Engineering colleges at universities in the early days. The first books on ...
... <robin.dymond@...> wrote: <snipped stuff I agree with> ... I would suggest studying the U.S. Marine Corps. They have some very good ideas. They have...
You bet! I thought the real challenge was who they were going to report to (or how to survive the fight over who was going to get them). :) Shane Hayes...
Hi all, Can anyone recommend any good books on: A3 Kaizen Value Steam Mapping other must read lean books? I have read The Toyota Way (excellent) and Tom and...
Check out Managing the Design Factory by Reinertson. Extraordinarily good imnsho Sent using my BlackBerry Bold - the thinking man's iphone. www.clarkeching.com...
Jonathan- Among the best are . Managing to Learn - by Jon Shook. An account of how the A3 problem solving process actually works from the perspective...
