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...And How Are You Going to USE That Information? 2 Sep 2007 | 07:08 pm
I cited in my last post a case where Counting Wasted Time. I ended by giving my favorite response when someone is asking to collect data about the project: ...And how will you use that information? ...
Counting Wastes Time 1 Sep 2007 | 11:54 pm
It's there. You see it. You have this overwhelming urge to count it. It's a moral obligation, a call-to-arms; your personal mission. I am referring to counting artifacts and measuring artifacts. I am...
How I Discovered Lean 29 Aug 2007 | 06:17 am
Before I delve more into Lean, the best management practice to support Agile, I would like to step back and talk about how I got to Lean. The path I took influences my thinking about the Agile/Lean in...
Lean - An Agile Management Process 27 Aug 2007 | 09:21 pm
In Three Critical Enablers for Agile, the second critical enabler is use of a management process consistent with the Agile engineering practices that continually produce software. For this, I use Lean...
Some Agile/Lean References 27 Aug 2007 | 07:32 pm
This is just a quick pointer to a couple of Web items. Applying Agile to Ruby is a presentation I did last year at JAOO in Denmark. This Webcast has been nicely edited by the InfoQ guys for viewing. ...
Keystrokes are NOT Gold 19 Aug 2007 | 10:32 pm
Programmers tend to treat their keystrokes as gold. Perhaps they are driven to counting by project managers. Perhaps their typing skills are atrocious. Regardless, there is a great reluctance to disca...
Three Critical Enablers for Agile 19 Aug 2007 | 10:08 pm
I have been more successful with Agile processes than any alternative I have tried in my 40 years of programming. My early work predates even phased processes like waterfall. Roy Singham, our founder,...
Ideal Developer Ratios for Pods 10 Aug 2007 | 12:08 am
In the last post, I postulated that an ideal team structure exists for Agile, a pod. The pod is a collocated, self-contained team able to execute the project. Let's drill down into the structure of th...
Ideal Skill Ratios in Pods 7 Aug 2007 | 11:48 pm
So are, we have talked about pods, ideal team Agile team structures, and the proper mix of developer skills in the pod. In this post, I would like to describe the needs for other skills in the pod. A...
Pods -- Ideal Agile Team Structures 7 Aug 2007 | 10:56 pm
I described in a previous post that you probably have the wrong team working on your Agile project. It is wrong because you can't find the ideal team members initially, it is wrong because the needs o...
