Software Management, Process
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Jerry Weinberg was my mentor before I met him! He’s now my mentor, teacher, and friend. Read any and all of his books.
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Enthiosys helps software companies achieve business agility through agile product management processes and practices. As the leading Agile product management consulting firm, we help our clients deliver on the company-wide promise and power of Agile. Business agility is more than building high quality software faster. It’s about creating options, outmaneuvering your competition and creating sustainable profits over time.
Society of Concurent Product Development
Welcome to the Society of Concurrent Product Development, SCPD . We are an educational society seeking to disseminate the latest knowledge concerning all aspects of concurrent product development. Our technology base is particularly valuable to companies trying to learn from the trials and tribulations and the ultimate resolutions experienced by companies that have successfully implemented "Concurrent Product Development" or as it is sometimes known, "Concurrent Engineering" .
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W. Edwards Deming’s 14 points are the basis for transformation of industry. Adoption and action on the 14 points are a signal that the management intend to stay in business. aim to protect investors and jobs.
Systems Thinking, Lean and Kanban
Life’s better with the right tools. The trick of course is, how do we fill our mental toolbox with the right ones.
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Herding Cats
Scott Ambler's current post titled Agile Practices Require Discipline restates the core principles of all successful projects. The framework described by Scott can be found in many other project domains, from heavy construction, to spaceflight, to weapons systems, to process control and even well implemented ERP systems.
By Kevin Meyer Take a look at the following quotes from an article on worker abuse. I've purposely redacted the company and location identifying information. "As long as my body holds up, I will keep working. But the way it feels, I don't know how long that will be."
Evolving Excellence
This is an all-day overview of what kanban is like and how it can work in your company. This special event is offered for the low price of USD $260 (199 EUROS).
David J. Anderson and Associates - Kanban Training Class in Seattle, WA August 18-19, 2011
Part 2 of Patterns of Software Engineering Workflow The simplest kind of kanban system is the CONWIP system, for CONstant Work In Process. The simplest kind of CONWIP system is no more than our fundamental kanban element: An equally intuitive interpretation of CONWIP defines capacity simply as the number of people available to work, so that each person is the kanban: CONWIP is a rule about work items, not a rule about workflow. We are free to define any workflow we like as long as we observe the global limit.
Lean Software Engineering
Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Eric Brechner. Eric is author of the book, and blog, I.M. Wright’s “Hard Code.”
Shaping Software
Fantastic insight from Neil deGrasse Tyson about how important it is to be sensitive to someone’s current state of mind when you are trying to teach or persuade. You don’t teach with facts alone. You have to understand how those facts/thoughts are received by the person on the other end.