Bob, Thanks for all of your comments; they give me some very good ideas and I'll be taking them into account. You ask for a deadline - my current target is to...
A heart-breaking post from news:comp.software-eng : please, can any of you comment on the following directive repeated often by the lead programmer of the dev...
Let's assume that the lead programmer is not afflicted (at least publicly) with bouts of madness, running outside to bay at the moon, telling management ...
... http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?IncoherentRewardStructures The lead has learned the structure and is obeying the rewards. These don't link to (ahem) shipping...
... At my last employers, another team was singing their own praises that they were on time with their release. Then they used the phrase 'code complete'...
Mary, Thanks for the new chapter 4, it reads well and I only have a couple of relatively minor suggestions. * "Software should be developed as a 'Project'" ...
Hi Allan, Thanks for your comments; I was beginning to wonder if anyone saw the new chapter 4. :-) Throughout the book I steadfastly refuse to use the word...
As I was doing research on the Heathrow T5 terminal, I ran across this article, which shows once again that if you forget the people part, it's not Lean: ...
Mary, This seems to be a lesson that is continually being relearned. At Rocky Flats were I was a PMO, much of the success is attributed to the management of...
... to integrate..." Put quality before quantity. As others have said - you'll be remembered Positively for shipping on time, even it it doesn't have all the...
... I suspect they follow a Big Requirements Up Front, and a Big Plan Up Front. With only manual testing, by Customer Proxies, you get a curious scenario: ...
Hi Glen, Here's a quote from Gary Hamel that I love: "It took Detroit more than 20 years to ferret out the radical management principle at the heart of...
... Perhaps I'm confused here... As I see it the problem is not that software development isn't a project -- the problem is that projects are managed in all...
Hi Mark, I spent years in product development, and some years also in IT, and many more years in "engineering" doing process control systems. When I was in ...
... You don't stop learning. You do stop projects. The use of projects implies a "start" and a "stop". This encourages an attitude of "One day it will be...
... Does this mean they delayed planning the sidewalks until they see where the trails appear in the grass? (I live in a BRUF town, and I lay awake at night...
Womack and Jones' book from 1990 mentioned below is certainly foundational to Lean Software Development thinking. The current struggles of GM and Ford reflect...
... Some of those fortune 1000 companies have been pursuing agile methods for their own development to possess the capability internally rather than contract...
We have also seen agile adoption in Capitol One, Honeywell, Rockwell, Lockheed Martin, Google, Amazon, and other large organizations. A keynote at XP2005 in...
... A very good question. Some of us (myself included) will certainly struggle to try and make that happen. To what extent we'll succeed remains to be seen. ...
... Hi Tom, I'd guess it depends on what you mean by "we", and how long "we" can wait. I happen to know a bit about how Ford and Chrysler do software, and I'd...
Brad, There are agile implementaion efforts in aerospace as well other government agencies and their contractors. The challange is to assess the pervasiveness ...
Tom wrote: I wonder if the community pursuing Agile Software methods are behaving more like Ford and GM or more like Toyota. Can we succeed by focusing just...
... Why is that the "real question"? Why isn't the real question "what have current projects learned and taken from XP and other Agile methods?" Or a host of...
... Just be sure to give it appropriate attribution. ;-> Enjoy and prosper! Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com Steering is more important than speed, in driving...
... In which case yo might have to wait a generation for the change. Today's managers where brought up on traditional approaches and the Polaris myth. Some of...
Yep, That's a better question. And the follow on from the CMMI POV is, can I trace those learnings to improvements in the processes? That wat the appraiser can...
Tom Having just Left Honeywell mostly due to a completely botched lean software initiative I feel I can assure the small consultancies that they have nothing...
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