process

26/01/200928/12/2014 on agile, deming, lean, process, process control

Acceleration, schmeleration. Scott Ambler misses the point…

Through this post on InfoQ I learned that Scott Ambler is writing about productivity in Agile and how to measure it. He comes up with an interesting concept, that of acceleration. Anyone familiar with statistical process control knows that a process does not have “acceleration” by itself. A process is either under statistic process control …

08/01/200928/12/2014 on agile, lean, process, Toyota production system, tps

Learn from the Sensei

It is seldom that we have the opportunity to learn from the masters, the Sensei. Here’s a good post for those of us that are interested in TPS (Toyota Production System). I especially like this part: In 1943 Taiichi Ohno was transferred to the automotive side of Toyota from the Loom Works. The architect of …

05/01/200928/12/2014 on agile, business, optimization, process, software, toc

What is a bottleneck? (TOC)

When faced with a problem in a process, the first step you should take is to identify the process map and bottleneck. This is nothing new, TOC people have been advocating this for a very long time as part of their “5 focusing steps“. But if it is why don’t we do it? Well, because …

16/11/200828/12/2014 on agile, games, process, retrospectives, simulation, waterfall

Note to self, use more simulations…

Great simulation description by Elisabeth Hendrickson, and I’ve got great first-hand feedback from this simulation. I can’t wait to see it live! Check out the post here.

16/09/200828/12/2014 on agile, agile adoption, agile ready, process, ready for agile, transition

You are not ready for agile if…

This is a post I’ve been meaning to write for a long time. Who am I kidding, I don’t have the time right now, so I’ll let Andy do the talking: You’re not ready for agile if you: * behave territorially. You mark your territory like an aggressive dog, refusing to share power or information, …

21/04/200828/12/2014 on agile, lean, people, process, quality, respect for people, translation

Respect for people, the translator’s edition

In the spirit of Lean my colleague and friend Mika Pehkonen writes how they are able to respect people, get them to do what they are best at and most motived to do. I’d say that’s a win-win-win situation! we pay our translators by the hour, not by word count. This means that the translator …

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