Our model of tasks passing through a value stream to be completed (for example: coded, tested and deployed) is interestingly similar to a more general one that...
0 replies - 3853 views - 06/06/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
In the next few articles of this series based on Lean software development: an Agile toolkit, we will explore the Deliver as fast as possible principle, the...
0 replies - 3303 views - 05/30/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
Product development and by extension software development is a game of decisions:should the application include a feature to block users?Does class A or class...
0 replies - 4513 views - 05/23/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
Options Thinking lead us to invest time and money in delaying decisions to a time where we know the most about it; the extreme application of the Decide as...
0 replies - 3050 views - 05/09/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
Agreement over a decision can be reached either via point-based proposals or via set-based ones; in this context, the decision can be a design-related one like...
0 replies - 4147 views - 04/24/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
In Scrum, XP and any method that employs iterations it is common to have a planning phase at the start of each iteration to decide what to put in it. The set...
0 replies - 4160 views - 04/19/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
Mary Poppendieck points out three principles of iterations:short iterations force small batches, where features move quickly through the system. It's not...
0 replies - 3406 views - 04/11/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
Feedback is one of the foundations of the Agile movement and of any iterative methodology for developing software. Lean tools for amplifying learning feature...
0 replies - 4093 views - 04/03/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
There are some markets with very little variability of evolution of goods, and that as such can support a very long value stream before arriving in the hands...
0 replies - 4667 views - 03/29/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
Every developer that has heard about the Lean movement knows that there are seven lean principles to use as a foundation for this approach in every industry -...
0 replies - 8514 views - 03/19/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
I increasingly feel that the way I interpret Agile, the practices and
the processes, if different to the rest of the world. Perhaps this is
just self...
1 replies - 1405 views - 02/23/12 by Allan Kelly in Articles
I’m probably one of the biggest fans of Agile. Not because it’s one
of the hottest things going on right now in the development community.
I’m...
2 replies - 1742 views - 02/02/12 by Steve Ciske in Articles
Last night at Agile 2011, DZone was in attendance at "The Big Park Bench" Agile Manifesto 10 year anniversary reunion. At this very special...
0 replies - 7045 views - 08/09/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
Why do teams jell? Why some teams are trustful, enthusiastic and
passionate; while other teams are apathetic and boring? There is no
recipe to build a...
1 replies - 1556 views - 01/27/11 by Michael Dubakov in News
Let's start with a definition of Lean software development:Lean software development is a translation of Lean manufacturing and Lean IT principles and...
0 replies - 3409 views - 11/08/10 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
