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Scenarios in Practice
Scenarios are a practical way to organize and focus your product design, development and release. (We use scenario-driven engineering in patterns & practices) Key Benefits Business value . You can use scenarios to evaluate business value. What pain Read More...
Posted 15 October 07 03:21 by J.D. Meier | 2 Comments   
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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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7 Habits of Highly Effective Program Managers
What does it take to be an effective Program Manager at Microsoft? I'm responding to some requests for my take on what it takes to be an effective PM. I figured I could use a familiar 7 habits approach to help frame out a start. To pick a set of habits, Read More...
Posted 09 April 07 06:47 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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