October 2007 - Posts
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Here are the full abstracts for my two official Javapolis conference sessions... UNI: (Monday 10 December) The Zen of Agile Management What is the essence of agile management? How do you create a culture of continuous improvement? With light touch, empowerment...
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On the first day of Javapolis, I'll be giving a BOF session in the evening for the XP Users Group in Belgium. The session is scheduled from 19:00 to 22:00 so hopefully I'll still be awake as the jetlag should surely be kicking in by then. ;-)...
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I didn't say anything publicly in advance as it was a private visit I made last week to Yahoo! However, Aaron Sanders has blogged about my Speaker Series presentation on kanban and leading cultural change at Corbis. So I thought I'd share his...
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In, Agent Technology: Painting Trucks at GM , the folks at Cutter demonstrate how software agent technology can be used to automate empowerment to the shop floor (quite literally the machine without human decision making). The agent's bidding algorithm...
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I really liked this article, The Giant on the Runway , in last week's Economist. While the locals here is Seattle can take some pride that Boeing appears to have pulled one over on rival Airbus with its 787 Dreamliner model, and its lean manufacturing...
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Diamond = Triangle++; If you wanted to reinvent a subject that has much of its literature underpinned by a(n iron) triangle, how would you get beyond that? Add a fourth dimension and call it a diamond? My initial reaction to Reinventing Project Management...
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I get asked what we present at operations review every month. As you can see, we have a full agenda. One key element is that I'm not a presenter. I do open the meeting and close the meeting with just a couple of minutes of very quick remarks to set...
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I really like this blog by Amit Rathsore that I just discovered via Aaron Sanders , Epistemologic . Amit is talking about many of the same things I've been working on these past 3 years - applying Lean ideas to software engineering problems. Amongst...
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I thought I'd continue my short series on first year job frustrations, with my thoughts on Team Foundation Server and MSF. [At the severe risk of upsetting a bunch of my buddies across the lake in Redmond. ;-)] TFS has been an agent of change for...
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Scott Miller has been blogging about using kanban board in software development and how he went about designing his board . Meanwhile, Business Lean blog has some advice on the trade off between an electronic kanban system versus a manual system . As...
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