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20/09/200828/12/2014 on agile, lean, lean thinking, learning, pdca, problem solving, toyota, tps

Learn or else…

Through Elisabeth Hendrickson I got to Brett Pettichord’s post about the role of feedback in Agile. Read it if you haven’t yet. Here are the pearls that made me post this: “If you don’t have meaningful feedback then you’re not agile. You’re just in a new form of chaos.” and “Agile practices build a technical …

02/03/200828/12/2014 on discipline, problem, problem solving, programming, software

On the subject of problem solving, and problem root causes

Problem solving is key to the discipline of software development. What we do when we code/test/release a software product is essentially problem solving. We learn about a problem we analyze the root causes and then we come up with a solution. This post by Brett Schuchert reminds us that very often the apparent causes of …