Posted in Delivery on November 20th, 2009 No Comments »
(…continued from Deconstructing Lean’s costs and benefits)
I like Lean’s coherence and its focus on methods of achieving business change, but I have some doubts about applicability of its mainstream form to IT. This post describes why and sketches out some speculations about alternative models to use for IT.
What is waste
To help you understand why I […]
Posted in Delivery on November 1st, 2009 No Comments »
Apologies for slacking off from blogging, but there has been too many things to do. On the positive side, I had plenty of time to think about, think through and then re-think some of the ideas I started earlier this year. Now getting back to the subject I started on before I took my writer’s […]
Posted in Delivery on February 1st, 2009 2 Comments »
This is a follow-up to Lean v. Agile.
Most of what I read about Agile and Lean is coherent and relatively believable, but I still can’t get rid of a feeling that there is something wrong. When I dug deeper, I then realised that the key sources of my cognitive dissonance (apart from over-generalisation and over-zealous […]