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...
... Given a set of constraints, you always want to as lean as possible. If you have a safety-critical device with embedded software, you will not be *as* lean...
... Mary -- If you are talking about XP, it's my impression that the lead XPers believe the same as you do. Didn't Kent write that the separation of concerns...
All -- The LD book and the crop of other folks who are applying real options to software development would tend to assert that we should have a different ...
Some of 3M's most profitable products - Scotch Tape, for instance - resulted from people working on projects long after they were officially 'killed' by...
... I had 3M in mind as an example of what works here. In 3M, as I understand, everyone gets 15% of their time as research/slack time. If you care enough to ...
Your understanding of 3M is correct, at least that's the way it worked when I was there doing product development. The nice thing about this is that 3M did...
I think that you need to look at the roots of the term lean i.e. JIT and Deming-style QA When would you not want to minimize inventory (optimize it for your...
... What is not Lean? Maybe "Mass Production" and "Scientific Management"? But then Womack and Jones say that even Mass Production was just a special case of...
David, You had me nodding my head in agreement...for awhile. Lean is always valid. Projects exist in a world of uncertainty; the future is never another way....
It might help to have different questions. What is the likelihood of a successful outcome and what is the expected value going forward net of the expenses...
... That's right, and most of the real options papers, including mine that is explicitly using a decision analytic approach, make exactly this point. However,...
In his book 'Leading the Revolution,' Gary Hamel discusses establishing an open market for ideas, an open market for capital, and an open market for talent...
... Unfortunately the typography makes the book all but unreadable. (It doesn't help that his best model is Enron). The notion of an internal market also ...
I agree with you on all points, Arien, including your criticism of Hamel's book. But I still think that having an open market for development is a good and...
Mary and Arien, Open markets for projects appear irresponsible to me. What workers would we let judge the viablility of projects? Does anyone here own a...
... We are in utter agreement (yet another instance where e-mail takes 100x as long as direct conversatino :-) ... And to reward workers for killing/scaling...
Hal, As I will be arguing in my book, "Agile Management of the Software Development Factory" to be published in June, I believe we can treat the sum of money...
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