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Microsoft to give out development tools to students | Markets | Markets News | Reuters
19 February 08 07:02 AM | john.mullinax | 1 Comments   

Historically, Microsoft's free development tool software program for students has been controlled by computer science departments.  This has probably been one of multiple reasons that comp sci students have disproportionately taken advantage of Microsoft's Read More...

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Poppendieck: Ten Simple Rules of Lean Programming
06 February 08 03:31 AM | john.mullinax | 0 Comments   

After my last post referring to a webinar by Durward Sobek, he got me thinking again about the fantastic work of Mary and Tom Poppendieck . They are such a great force for evangelizing lean software development. I highly recommend their two books on the Read More...

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Applying Lean Thinking in software development... model Lean product development
04 February 08 06:07 PM | john.mullinax | 2 Comments   

I like what Mark Ramm says here .... There's much that software development can gain from Lean manufacturing. It's not that software development operations should adopt manufacturing processes, per se -- but many of the principles of lean thinking can Read More...

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A GREAT collection of Lean Software Development Info
14 June 07 02:26 PM | john.mullinax | 0 Comments   

Technorati Tags: systems thinking , lean manufacturing , lean , six sigma , learning , software development methods I just stumbled across Brad Appleton's fantastic collection of resources on Lean and Agile software development .  Books, presentations, Read More...

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