My post on Overcoming Language Barriers facilitated some very nice sharing of resources. Executives and managers! You need to familiarize yourself with this information; you will benefit through improved understanding of what your IT projects should be doing for you:
1. Excellent discussion on Domain Driven development from Sensei at ActiveEngine’s Cool Stuff post. This is […]
My forays into agile software development led me to Martin Fowler’s excellent web site and his most recent bliki post; in it he deals with how clients slowly allow their test programs to degrade making it very difficult to upgrade software. What I was more interested in was his lament about losing touch as an […]
Here is a slightly edited conversation with ActiveEngine following his response to my post on using lean experience to justify agile software development. It may be that non-IT executives don’t need to know about agile processes- just that the IT department is doing a lot more collaborating, testing and verifying throughout the software development process […]
My discussion with agile software development project managers led to some great insights into overcoming barriers to agile transformation. I started by surmising that a company who had done lean manufacturing would be more likely to pursue agile software development. When asked why, I gave the example of “quality at the source” and compared it […]
Despite cautions about comparing lean manufacturing and agile software development principles, there is more and more being discussed and written about it. A Rally Software white paper (registration required) does a pretty good job of discussing 5 levels of agile planning but precedes the discussion by talking about “core lean elements” of muri (overburden), mura […]
Fascinating conversation with an executive of an agile software development firm about transformation projects as they compare to lean manufacturing initiatives. Lean transformations have settled into starting with training heavily laced with practical activities. The reason that this is so important is that the approach is NOT intuitive.
Lean requires a person to experience how the concepts can […]
Great post summarizing agile software development estimation methods at Leading Answers. We “user types” can learn a great deal from agile methods as they mirror lean and theory of constraints approaches. Particularly interesting are the group estimation techniques that enable estimates that are more likely to include assumptions and are more likely to result in […]
Sometimes the conversations that we have on-line are revealing and illuminating. My recent discussion with ActiveEngine Sensei, who focuses on software development processes, allowed us to share lean, agile and best practice collaboration processes that drastically cut wasteful activity and accelerate business processes. He comes from a software development perspective whereas I come from a […]
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