I have just read a great book called 'Sources of Power; How People make Decisions' by Gary Klein. It discusses intuitive decisions making in great depth, and...
... gridlock. ... Tom DeMarco may have addressed some of the overutilization issues in his book "Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total ...
There is one other way to reduce the onset of gridlock, and that is to reduce the size of the batches that move through the system. This has the effect of...
I will be out of the office starting 12/06/2002 and will not return until 12/16/2002. I will be checking emails but if you need help immediately, please...
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Gregory Howell
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Dec 8, 2002 5:01 pm
... -- Gregory A. Howell, P.E. Center for Innovation in Project and Production Management (Lean Construction Institute) Box 1003 (101 Alpine Drive for...
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Gregory Howell
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Dec 8, 2002 5:02 pm
I was reading my email from the bottom up this morning and missed this note from Mary. Also on the http://cic.vtt.fi/lean/singapore/singapore.htm is an...
... Seen from this perspective, XP does this throughout: Short iterations = small batches Small stories = consistent batches TDD = small, consistent units of...
Here is a direct link to the paper Greg mentions: http://cic.vtt.fi/lean/singapore/Howell.pdf. The graphs in this paper look the same as the graph of cycle...
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Gregory Howell
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Dec 8, 2002 7:21 pm
... -- Gregory A. Howell, P.E. Center for Innovation in Project and Production Management (Lean Construction Institute) Box 1003 (101 Alpine Drive for...
While slack is absolutely necessary, we don't have to live with the level of variability that we generally experience on projects. To use the highway example...
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Gregory Howell
ghlci@...
Dec 9, 2002 2:51 pm
... -- Gregory A. Howell, P.E. Center for Innovation in Project and Production Management (Lean Construction Institute) Box 1003 (101 Alpine Drive for...
You might recall that Toyota has a few trusted suppliers who deliver components to the factory at the point of (use) installation or assembly. These components...
Hi Eugene, good to hear from you. I like your idea - break it up into small work packages and gradually refine the solution. Good analogy on shipbuilding, I...
We have just posted a second draft of our book, Lean Development: An Agile Toolkit for Software Development Leaders at http://www.poppendieck.com/ld.htm . We...
You are following this lean principle "3.Decide as Late as Possible" in authoring your book. You may want to re-phrase this: A brief introduction to these...
Nucor Steel grew from a startup in 1968 into a $4 billion giant, attributing much of its success to an incentive pay system based on productivity. When I...
<snip> Is this fair? Is it right to reward plant managers based on the productivity of plants over which they have no control? </snip> The simple answer is...
I disagree. By rewarding plant managers based on the productivity of all plants, the managers have an incentive to optimize their plants output, and and...
<snip> I disagree. By rewarding plant managers based on the productivity of all plants, the managers have an incentive to optimize their plants output, and and...
David, I agree, I think there must be more to Nocor's success than extrinsic motivators. But at least their extrinsic motivators are at a high enough level to...
Hi everybody, this is my first post here and I'm new to lean development also but I think this topic is common to every agile approach. ... they are creating? ...
<snip> should developers be 'responsible' for the business success of the system they are creating? Some have argued that customers, not developers, should be...
David, I couldn't agree with you more heartily. When I was leading new product development teams, the teams used to get into arguments all the time - a ...
... Is there a right answer for all teams? For all individuals? I'm thinking of the GE/Durham [1] jet engine plant where they are "consensuing" on most of the...
HI Jonas, You referenced truly interesting article, one I had read before, but enjoyed reading again. I agree that decision making processes depends on the...
A couple of reviewers of the Lean Development book have posed a question I have been puzzling over, and wonder if anyone on this group can help out: When is...
Do you know, I can't think of anywhere where I might not want to use lean development either. How about if you had inherited a very bad team, a team you...
