Hello members of the leandevleopment Yahoo group. We just thought we'd let you know that Kent Beck has graciously let us use the leandevleopment discussion...
Hello Everyone, Today I posted the full first draft of the book: Lean Development: A Toolkit for Software Development Managers at www.poppendieck.com/ld.htm....
As we wrote Lean Development, we tried to keep in mind the danger posed by metaphors. Indeed, the manufacturing metaphor with its focus on repeatable process...
In the October 2002 Harvard Business review, Michael Lapre and Luk Van Wassenhove offer some insight in an article called “Learning Across Lines, The secret...
I think the problem is in the use of the word "metaphor" and not in the comparison to manufacturing. What you are really saying is that you want people to use...
It's interesting that you should pick up the Lapre and Wassenhove article from HBR. I read it on the way to work a week or so ago and it caused me to create...
David - You are right. The mapping has to occur at a systems thinking level of abstraction. I chose the term metaphor because that is the term being used on...
David - Thanks for sharing the slide. I expect that the practitioners of either Scrum or XP would place their approaches differently. In particular, we have...
David - Would you be willing to share the other views you mentioned below? I think I would place CMM Level 1 down in the firefighting quadrant, not Scrum. -...
I think that we need to start now and change the mental model in the Agile community from "metaphor" to "abstraction" (or at worst "simile"). If people can ...
The problem with slides is that they need a dissertation to go with them, or you need to see them "live" with the author talking to it. Hence, I need to think...
I agreed with your whole posting except the implication that lean thinking is the norm. The NWLEAN mailing list suggests to me that lean is still working its...
I agree Kent, Lean Thinking is not the 'norm' in manufacturing (whatever that means). I think this is, in part, because many places tried implementing the...
MessageI think the Software Industry in a whole is in a dilemma. We are an impatient bunch of people who would use the word EXTREME or AGILE to justify getting...
Our Target audience for the Lean Development book is software development managers, project managers, and other leaders who choose or constrain how project...
... I'd say that it does an admirable job at giving a theoretical basis for why agile methodologies work, and in connecting agile methdologies to other similar...
I've re-read the Chasm book. I think XP is still stuck at the small chasm, the one between innovators (technical people who want to do a new process because...
Kent - Since you and Ward delivered a "Distinguished Lecture" on pair programming for the local Object technology user group symposium a couple years back, the...
My two cents, I agree with Kent that we are still in the early adopter stage, struggling to move into early majority, not close to the chasm yet. I know there...
Hello Tom, We are struggling with the lean metaphor in looking at projects in general. Too much of the attention of the metaphor attends to the materiel...
Hal, I am trying to figure out exactly what you mean by the machine metaphor. I do not totally buy the concept that a project is simply a special case of...
I have a theory that a fundamental question in most organizations is: How do people know what to do when they show up for work in the morning? There are two...
... Just to add to my previous message, I think that within the parameters of the book itself, it may be more valuable with some practices that suppliment the...
My interpretation of the chasm is that you can't rush through any of the segment. Each segment provides experience and resource crucial to addressing the next...
I'm not sure I'm ready to write persuasively (or even lucidly) about this. Here's a short commentary (for now). If you've been following the series of...
The postings Hal refers to below are at http://weblog.halmacomber.com/ . If you have an interest in agile project management, Hal's writings and references...
Tom writes, Might the theory of project management be the theory of a learning project team? Oh, if it were just that simple. The PMI appears to be agnostic...
Thanks for the plug Tom :-) Actually, this presentation is a now somewhat out-of-date outline for my first book which will be published next year. The draft...
