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Get Lean, Eliminate Waste
If you want to tune your software engineering, take a look at Lean . Lean is a great discipline with a rich history and proven practices to draw from. James has a good post on applying Lean principles to software engineering . I think he summarizes a Read More...
Posted 08 June 07 06:55 by J.D. Meier | 4 Comments   
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David Anderson's Recipe for Success
David Anderson distills his software management learnings down into four bullets: Focus on Quality Reduce Work-in-progress Balance capacity against demand Prioritize He names this set a recipe for sucess. Here's what the recipe mean to me. Focus on Quality. Read More...
Posted 11 March 07 06:04 by J.D. Meier | 1 Comments   
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2 Key Process Pitfalls
If I had to pick two easily corrected issues I see show up time and again, I'd pick: Optimizing the wrong thing. Optimizing your process, when what you need is a different process. Two questions I think help: "What do you want to optimize?" (time? money? Read More...
Posted 03 February 07 03:51 by J.D. Meier | 1 Comments   
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What Are You Optimizing
This is such a fundamental question. It has an enormous impact on your product design and how you structure your product life cycle. For example, are you optimizing time? ... money? ... impact? ... innovation? ... resource utilization? If you don't answer Read More...
Posted 02 February 07 06:40 by J.D. Meier | 3 Comments   
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