Dear Lean-Agile Community, Back in May, I asked for your help doing research on organization culture and Agile. Thank you so much to all of you who took the...
Have you seen case studies or reports on productivity improvements and Return on Investments (ROI) from Lean Development methods? Any reports, pointers to...
... What I've seen is all linked from http://biblio.gdinwiddie.com/ If you find any other research, please add it to that site. It's an annotated research...
Thanks George, this looks very useful. Mary Poppendieck Author of Lean Software Development, Implementing Lean Software Development, and Leading Lean Software...
Dear all, The session submission deadline for Ágiles 2010 was extended until July 16th! The conference is composed of different types of sessions (talks,...
Yep. There have been a few spam mails recently too. My filter caught a couple of them, and a couple made it to my inbox. Someone probably needs to check the...
The group is set up to moderate first posts, and this has worked well for a long time. However, there does not seem to be a way to moderate first postings of...
In the management of the group, you can restrict putting up links to moderators only. Open the group page --> Management --> Group Setting --> Web Tools, and...
Thanks, I’ve not turned off that spam path. Mary Poppendieck Author of Lean Software Development, Implementing Lean Software Development, and Leading Lean...
I've been reading some old work by Peter Drucker (Management Challenges for the 21st Century). He talks about how Taylor's work on work was pivotal for ...
Hi, I do that a lot, partially because I did a lot of Toastmasters (TM), and TM club rescue for years. However a corporate TM club likely fails in 13-18 months...
Sometimes I look back to Drucker or Deming or Brooks and wonder if we have lost our way in the last 20 years. It sometimes feels like we have all the critical...
... The Agile methods I know recommend a (single) business person deciding what should be done. (Mary believes, if I understand, that this should be a team...
Ron Agile may not be democratic when it comes to choosing requirements but it is very democratic (or it is supoosed to be) when -choosing practices ...
... The how is chosen by the team. That does not make it democratic. Democracy Form of government, where a constitution guarantees basic personal and political...
Jeff, ... I think that a hallmark of democracy is the principle of decisions made by a majority. The things you mention don't require that principle, or even...
Hi Tomo, I like the idea of an evangelist - the equivalent in Open Source is the benevolent dictator. Case in point: the Ubuntu sabdfl (self-appointed ...
From the Ubuntu page on governance: This is not a democracy, it's a meritocracy. We try to operate more on consensus than on votes, seeking agreement from the...
... <snip> ... Lets first define democracy: "a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected...
... Not as such. But reflecting on my long life in this business, it seems to me that the closer I got to people who were self-engaged and focused on a common...
... <snip> ... <snip> System Dynamics and The Logical Thinking Process are good frameworks for doing that. Combine with models of human thought processes as...
... This was alluded to in the LeanSSC UK conference last week (sorry, I forget who raised it). We compared "communities of practice" and "communities of ...
Hi, I think another model is the Prussian military one, where you are given a task, and part of your job is to figure out how to do it. That model also shows...
I've often tell people that of all the things I learned in college, the ones that I use on a daily basis are based on the experiences I had working in ...
Hello Folks, This is a very interesting discussion. Mary's recent post about Ubuntu made me think of an approach called deep democracy. It was coined by Arnold...
We were discussing the subject of this thread during the lunch today and we agreed that treating knowledge workers as volunteers is a good way to define what...
In my experience, one thing that keeps volunteers coming back is the belief that what they are working on will be successful. So if they see an "evangelist"...
(responding to Tomo) ... This is something I have often seen, and I'm not sure whether I ought to be worried about it. Partly I worry that so few people seem...
