Hi Jean, You raise some thoughtful points :) ... I think you are on to something here. Personally I never like it when some one tells me what I MUST do. My...
Sorry Xavier, I have not been able to keep up with this discussion over the week.. The person we heard from at Toyota - Ishii-san - deals with embedded ...
There are fixed price, time, and scope projects around the world, and Japan is no exception. These contracts are almost certainly subject to improvement via a...
Hi Paul, The scenario you paint (Who works over the weekend when a release that is late?) is rather unlikely in Japan. We found a cultural intolerance of...
Hi Mary, Thanks for the response. ... This is consistent with what I've been told by others that have visited or lived in Japan. It sounds very regimental and...
Hi! I have 3 separated teams (and yes, I can't reunite them in one place), and two of them uses the resources of the third team. Any hint about how we can...
We are pleased to announce the May 2009 ACCU London Meeting. Talk: Agile Software Development in the Enterprise Speaker: Jeff Sutherland When: 18:30,...
The Poppendiecks have a new book soon to be released and a new Lean Software Development course. It is called Designing a Lean Software Development Process....
Hi! Since 2005 I'm managing several real projects executed using an management oriented process distilled from XP, similar to Scrum, with good results (25 over...
Hello Agustin, I¹m not qualified to comment on the Kanban and backlog aspects of your question, but I would like to offer some advice on ³defining success²....
<sorry everyone for the double post accidently hit send while pasting a URL> Hello Agustin, I¹m not qualified to comment on the Kanban and backlog aspects...
Hi! One of the main issues on my job is to define the "success crieteria" of a project. Thanks for your info Agustin ... Hi! One of the main issues on my job...
Hi Ryan: I readed your article and found ir very interesting. I'm looking forward to apply it in an experimentak way, and when I have some experience I'll tell...
At Net Objectives we want to increase exposure to the value of Lean and Lean-Agile. One way we're doing this is the exceptionally low cost of some upcoming...
Hello Agustin, Sorry for the delayed reply, but it has been a hectic week. I agree with Ryan, working to achieve business goals instead of scope targets is an...
Hello Mary: In our SAP projects we are actively trying to engage the best business experts, which is not easy - is always busy - but we know that is essential...
Yes, I agree, I think you have done an excellent job in describing the balance that we have to keep searching for. Good luck to you too! Mary Poppendieck ...
Sorry for the late reply on this. I had an observation I hadnt seen mentioned thus far ... ... I was immediately struck by how closely this parallels the...
Rob Hathaway (and his colleague Jason Smith @ Indigo Blue) with Karl Scotland (EMC Consulting) are organizing the European version of the Lean & Kanban...
Hi Alan! I'm catching up on email and when I tried to open the file What%20Is%20Lean.pdf from the FIles section of the group, it says the document is no longer...
You can find the file at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/leandevelopment/files/ might be better to just pull it off there. Alan Shalloway, CEO, Sr....
LitheSpeed / Modus Cooperandi are offering discounts for those who attend the new course Kanban Systems for Lean Software Development. This courses will be...
Hi, I'm volunteering on the Agile 2009 committee to publicize the conference this year. There are just 2 of us, myself and Eric Lefevre-Ardant, so we need your...
The new Poppendieck book, which somehow I got a copy of, has lots of interesting new discussions. For example, they talk of SW Airlines and how they accept...
I'll be teaching a 2-day Lean Software Development class in Bellevue on June 18-19 and in Charlotte on June 23-24. We've lower than normal pricing because we...
A basic pass / fail test was developed at Nokia to understand if the many teams were implementing Scrum correctly. You can take this test by clicking on the...
Don't miss your chance! This is the only course being taught by Mary and Tom Poppendieck in the US in 2009, and space is limited. The Poppendiecks have a new...
Hi all, At this time I'm involved in several projects , some of them interfacing with "QA methodologists", that is a funny name for people raised on the PMI ...
Agustin, Your first step is to stop seeing this an anti-pattern and start seeing this as an opportunity to improve the planning process. The notion is a...
When I was faced with this situation I made sure I talked to the "QA help" in their language and made sure my project plan conformed to their rules so they...
