... 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....
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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...
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... 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 ...
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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...
Thanks for that. Where we are having trouble is in the system of systems where only one system uses Agile. The interfaces are a mess and not good enough to...
Right, in fact, it doesn't take a safety critical environment to have things start to get frayed at the edges of the agile team or organization. I've seen...
Suppose Team A needs something from Team B, say a small bit of interface code that takes a day of work. If Team B uses a sequential development methodology,...
... Vendor more Agile than Client - good. Vender less Agile than Client - bad. One FAQ about Extreme Programming is "how can you sell an API if you refactor...
This is a classic issue I remembeer discussing in Lean Manufacturing circles, where the discussion came down to, you have to push the just in time approach all...
Hi! Many thanks for your note. So what you are suggesting is that large scale projects should be decomposed into a multiple sub-projects and implemented using...
We are having a similar problem while developing a very high profile, tight deadline project for a key client in an Agile way, while the surrounding...
Ian, God bless. I know it can be very trying and you begin to question yourself after awhile. Software development is a very young science and we will...
