Jim, Mary, all, There is an excellent book from Michael Kennedy - Product Development for the Lean Enterprise. I use this book when talking to CxO level folk....
Hubert, Yes, it's a good book. I spoke at a product development conference last year and met Michael who was very interested in what was going on in the agile ...
Hi Folks I am looking into Lean to try to reduce the time it takes my development group to turn a development request into something that starts making or...
Hello Dave, We (www.poppendieck.com) offer Lean Software Development training, and in the past we have offered it in Australia at the request of individual ...
Mary Thanks very much for the reply. I would love to get you out to give some training here but with only 8 people in the devlopment group I suspect we...
Hello Mary, This message raises the question: Is it possible to learn lean development principles and have a successful integration of these lean practices in...
I know of two companies that have reported at conferences that they read our book on Lean Software Development, studied it carefully, and then implemented very...
I just read Mary and Tom Poppendieck's book and thoroughly enjoyed it! Thanks to Mary and Tom for writing such an eye-opening read. I've been thinking about...
... Measure the defect rate per iteration. Expect it to go down. Any time spent working on a defect is time not spent on new features. Then measure your cycle...
... You just said it. Measure the time, for each feature, from slating or scheduling that feature's details, and collecting profit from the feature. (That's...
... I agree. Those are good indicators. I think it will become clear over the lifetime of the project that we are getting less done per cycle time or need...
Lean Solutions, James P. Womack and Daniel T. Jones. Free Press, 2005. These are the authors of The Machine that Changed the World. (The "machine" was lean...
If you are registered at www.lean.org <http://www.lean.org/> (it's free), there is a wonderful article about the difference between industrial models vs....
Call for Participation XP Days Benelux conference 17 & 18 November 2005 Rotterdam, The Netherlands http://www.xpday.net XP Days Benelux is a two day...
Hello group, I am working on military software as a safety person. The onsequences of safety critical faults on this system are more than catastrophic. I am...
Just a random synapse firing in my brain & blog at <<http://bradapp.blogspot.com/2005/09/quantum-agility-and-organizational.html>> Sometimes I think trying to...
While pondering the question of whether or not to "commit" changes after every "green bar" or to wait unit after refactoring, and thinking about a "codeline"...
Brad, Good question. You can't scale agile as-is, since if you did, the exponential increase in inter-personal communication overhead would be paralytic....
... Yes. We've attempted that in several places. And Ron Crocker's Grizzly method talks about doing exactly that sort of thing by applying OO design principles...
Hi, There are only two weeks left to register for the XP Day Benelux conference. The conference will take place on Thursday 17 and Friday 18 November 2005, in...
... more exploration. ... I thought I'd include an excerpt from my book - Design Patterns Explained - 2nd Edition. Chapter 8. This discusses the relationship...
... Hi Dave: My company, Net Objectives, has been working informally with Mary and Tom and are now offering a 2-day course in Lean Software Development ...
Xp-Cinci is having a membership drive. Please help spread the word about these two special presentations. We will hold two special introductory presentations. ...
Hi Dave, You might want to talk to ThoughtWorks. They have a large presence in Australia. Their home page has a few nice Forrester reports on how they have...
Hey. Hey. Hey. What if appropriate fast is 2 years? Is that agile? You folks need to take several deep breaths and get your feet. Quick has always been...
... What's wrong with assessing what you have (in code, not on paper) after 2 weeks? What's wrong with adaptive planning towards that two year goal? These...
Hi List, While estimating (specially at the RFP stage), there is an external context that is generally overlooked. The problem gets more intense when you...
... If the Proposal is for something very valuable, then risking a little money up front, to _start_ the project, and run it for a few weeks, seems the best...
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