Lean Development
Agile is often the subject of an entire IT transformation within an organisation. But what is IT transformation?
Transformation means different things for different organisations and what it is depends entirely on each organisation's own unique situation, and what they are trying to achieve. It's also something that keeps changing, as the organisation, customers and the market continues to change,...
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I am noticing a troubling trend with many of the organizations I interact with. The project teams have a release date, a relatively fixed team size, and somewhere between 5 to 10 times...
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Someone sent me a Haiku poem earlier today. It was nothing to do with agile, but it inspired me to write a Haiku poem of my own. I don't know why. I guess I was just having a...
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Shopping in our local Grocery Store (Farm Boy) on a recent Saturday made me realize what a good job they do Limiting Work in Progress (WIP) and Self Organizing. Driving into the parking...
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This post originally published by Mike Cottmeyer for Agile Chronicles, May 2009.
Here I am.. Sunday afternoon.. Mother's day. Just got back from taking the family out for a low key...
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One of the big wins of any agile method you pick… Scrum, Kanban, Extreme Programming, AUP… is that you get a built-in ability to balance capacity against demand. This natural throttling...
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The last of the 7 Key Principles of Lean Software Development is 'Optimise The Whole'.
In their popular book, 'Implementing Lean Software Development', Mary and Tom Poppendieck...
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Principle number 6 of the 7 key principles of lean software development is Respect People.
It's yet another principle that should really be common sense. But unfortunately too...
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Deliver Fast. In a way, that's a funny principle to have. I would have thought that's stating the blinking obvious! But the reality is that it isn't. All too often in software...
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Continuing with my series about the 7 key principles of lean software development, here are my comments on Lean Principle #4 - Defer Commitment.
I'm not sure I really like the name...
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The third principle of lean software development is Create Knowledge.
This one seems a bit strange to me, as it almost seems obvious and common sense. But then I guess we all know...
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In my previous post about lean software development, I explained Lean Principle #1 - Eliminate Waste.
Quality issues result in all sorts of waste. That's a fact. There's waste...
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Need I say more?
No, thought not :)
Kelly.
