Folks, On Saturday February 18, that's just over a week from now, the early bird period for the Lean Software and Systems Conference 2012 (LSSC12) will end....
Folks, This is your week to get your early bird registration in for Lean Software & Systems in Boston May 13-18. Register before Saturday night to get Lean...
Hi folks, Just a reminder to those who've been consider submitting to the User Experience stage at Agile 2012 - we'd love to have your submission but... THE...
Folks, You have less than 24 hours to make your early bird registration for for Lean Software & Systems in Boston May 13-18 and save up to $850. Register now...
Hi All, Can any of you thorw some light on how to apply Lean principles in an application maintenance life cycle? Here the application maintenance, what I mean...
The basic system-level measurement for any lean process is the elapsed time from when you get the ticket to when the ticket is closed. It doesn't count as...
... Â And a practical way to help you along this path is to visualize the state of tickets - where are they in the workflow, are they being actively worked on...
Hi all, I am looking for a good value stream mapping video. I've looked on YouTube and have found them rather cheesy. I was wondering if this community had any...
I don't know if they have a video available but I learned some great stuff about value stream mapping from Alan Shalloway of NetObjectives and I know they have...
Folks, Our Boston Lean Party at the Seaport Hotel and World Trade Center on the week of May 13th will soon be upon us. Are you planning to attend Lean Camp New...
Tuesday April 17th is the last day to get the $1395 price for our conference in Boston next month. Read why I think it is the _must_attend_ event for 2012... ...
There is still time for Lean Kanban Southern Europe, a surprising little gem of a conference in Madrid next month. Read my blog post on why you should...
Lean Camp New England is a one day open space event led by Jim Benson, author of Personal Kanban. It is an opportunity to share and learn about Lean and Kanban...
Lean Kanban Southern Europe is coming up in Madrid in just 13 days time. There is still time to register. The organizers would still like to see another 20-30...
I have a wee announcement to make: Seven-and-a-half years ago I started writing my business novel Rolling Rocks Downhill - think Goldratt's "The Goal" but set...
I had a very interesting discussion yesterday about the 'perceived' lack of room/time for innovation for a development team under a two week sprint cycle. The...
TBH I don't think it's the two-week sprint that's the issue, and it won't get better (or worse) just as a result of changing to a different production model,...
I've heard of and seen other teams struggle with this too. In some cases, I think it's that people have let their roles become silted, and they take the...
Hi Johnnie, I've heard of this happening, but haven't experienced it myself. I certainly don't think that agile environments imply any lack of creativity or...
Not surprisingly, the notion of innovation is different for different folks. I've seen two major contexts (not to exclude others) for innovation: 1) When a...
Hi all, This is a wonderful topic. My view is that the whole thing is fairly complex, and you can't force it. First, we are trying to do two things: (a)...
I think this is the most important point. As Mary Poppendiek put's it, you have to slow down to speed up: The irony is that the fast-moving company had to...
hmmm... Perhaps, there is another perspective that could be rendered. That is... the majority of computing systems don't need innovation. Aren't many...
(responding to Marvin) ... This, I think, is a very relevant point. A large proportion of agile work is post dot-com boom web enablement. One system is very...
Hello Paul ... I disagree, strongly. A few examples of important innovations in areas one would think had been stable: Book stores :: Amazon Music :: iPod ...
If the work does not require innovation, and can be carried out with no need for problem solving then why isn't it being automated? If developers are just...
Seems to me that most disruptive innovation these days has software at its core. The automotive industry expects 90 percent of innovation in vehicles to come...
