Hi all, (sorry for cross-posting) Craig and me wrote a 'short' lean introduction and made is publicly available (very much based on the lean chapter of our...
This is very good. Thank you both for doing this! Catherine Sent on the Now Network™ from my Sprint® BlackBerry ... From: Bas Vodde <basv@...> Date:...
(Apologies for the re-post - I wasn't subscribed to leandevelopment) Bas (and Craig if you're listening), I really love the "baton" quote - if ever one phrase...
hi folks, we've published the (free 45+ page) Lean Primer at www.leanprimer.com welcome to let others know, link to it, blog it, etc. ... hope it's useful ...
Tue, Aug 11 - Tue, Sep 22 '09 (6 live sessions) Agility has allowed development teams to simultaneously reduce cost, increase the rate at which value is...
Hi Alan, I'm not on the leanagile list and wasn't planning to join at the moment. So, if you will be only replying there then the discussion thread wouln't be...
... I'm happy to have the conversation here - mostly didn't want it spread around several groups - but this is the first post back - and I do appreciate your...
Hi, A huge mail :) I'll try to keep it short again. On Deming: I definitively agree Deming has had an influence, though, it seems to me that e.g. TWI or Ford...
Hi, Â Â Â Â I am interested in conducting a benchmark of the software productivity of our organization. Here are some of the metrics that I know can be...
Siddharth: I would suggest your focus on metrics not be on the code as much as business value. The following are those that may relate to: value delivered,...
I don't know the context in which you intend to use those metrics, but before you consider computing those types of numbers, or any other attempt to measure or...
*This is an excerpt from the book from Mary and Tom Poppendieck 'Implementing Lean Software Development' , which reflects on metrics :-* * Myth: Optimize By...
Siddharth, As a follow-up to Alan¹s post, which I agree with, there are some alternate methods of measuring business value apart from the points system...
This is a topic that has been discussed at great lengths in literature, mailing lists, and blogs, but when I googled it I didn't readily find anthing that was...
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HI, If i was in a Microsoft.NET project, i could propose the use of Nunit for automated unit testing, Cruise Control for automatic build, FIT or Fitnesse for...
vbUnit exists and works for VB 6 (as are others http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unit_testing_frameworks). It's not integrated into the IDE like it is in...
Hi, My perception is that most software management frameworks focus on all the variables, except the customer. I think that one of the subtle and tactile ...
When people who have no knowledge of Lean (pull, JIT...) ask me to explain what Lean is I have a hard time. The time window I usually have to explain it is...
Mostly I draw upon the roots of lean-- the reduction in stockpiles in warehouses, in supply chain management, the idea that if there's a problem with, say, a...
Depends on how fast you talk. J Lean in short: Lean is an approach to deliver value to your customers faster by focusing on improving the workflow of the...
I would suggest that the concepts of cadence (or battle rhythm) and synchronization of activities in workflows are also essential ingredients. These two...
Of course they are - but you've only got 20 seconds. Can't get all of that in there. Anyway, that's an implementation issue of lean - not what it is about. ...
Here is what John Shook has to say on the subject: "As you know, much if not most, if not almost all of "lean" is essentially a matter of seeking in all that...
