Hi Glen: You made some good points in your post. I'm very intrigued about managing with the question “how long are we willing to wait before we find out...
Hi George: Any more specific pointer? ( I don't have a hard or soft copy of this book ) Thanks! Agustin ... Hi George: Any more specific pointer? ( I don't...
Jim Womack recently published a very good eletter, I blogged about it for those interested. Many great quotes, though this one stands out for me: *“We in the...
Agustin, It's been a couple years since I last read this book, but there's some interesting analysis (and charting) of slip dates. The issue of when we want...
Agustin, The phrase "how long are you willing ." is commonly used in the space and defense domain to define the period between measurements of physical percent...
The Proceedings of the Lean & Kanban Conference are now available for sale from our event sponsor Wordclay. Profits from this book will go to the Lean Software...
I think there was a great quote on this list, but I'm having trouble tracking it down to see its context. "Everyone knows that adding stress to a system under...
At XP2009, a keynote talk was given by Bjarte Bogsnes, a finance executive at Statoil in Norway, who wrote the book "Implementing Beyond Budgeting." I am...
(Responding to David from 4/29 included below - Yeah, I know - waste of delay, not to mention mura/muri given all my recent posts. Also, FYI, this was written...
Peter, Thanks for your post. Some nice thoughts in it. Can you point me to Radeka's piece? It feels to me like your list of lean principles mixes up...
Love it. Wish I was there for the keynote. I look at a lot of companies and they talk about Empowered, Self-organized teams at the time. Its really a joke in a...
People often ask how lean principles can be spread throughout an organization. This Beyond Budgeting work might be a key, because it is driven from the top of...
Hi everyone - Just a quick note to let those of you in or near Boston know of this great deal - I don't have to tell you what a dynamic speaker Ken is. Plus we...
The agenda for the UK Lean & Kanban Conference 2009 is now available online at http://ukleanconference.com/program.htm. Don't forget that registration is...
Dear all, On July 9 , 10 and 11 Massimus.com in partnership with Brazilian Lutheran University in Manaus (www.ulbra-mao.br) will be promoting the event Agility...
Hi, everyone - The Agile 2009 conference is set to be one of our best yet! Save the dates: August 24 - 28, Chicago, USA This year we are using "personas" as a...
Dear Lean Colleagues, I'm currently attending a post-graduate program on Lean Management at UNL in Lisbon(http://www.fct.unl.pt/candidato/cursos/depg/lean) and...
I saw some discussion around the definition of various terms and ideas, including the definition of Lean (Software Development). I was thinking of ways to do...
Hi Shane, Kanban is a scheduling tool - kanban by itself is hardly sufficient to qualify a work system as lean. That lesson was learned in manufacturing long...
Sorry - here is the text: Toyota Way 2001 Respect for People 1. Respect: Respect others, make every effort to understand each other, take responsibility...
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...
We are proud to present this new course from Mary & Tom Poppendieck. This course is based on their new book Leading Lean Software Development This is a two-day...
Link is broken. From: leandevelopment@yahoogroups.com [mailto:leandevelopment@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of julia.kittyhawk Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 7:11...
It's easy to forget that even though we deal with software, our users are real people trying to solve real problems. This recent experience of mine ...