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Articles and webcasts by Mary Poppendieck - Lean Thinking and Software Development
- The Role of Leadership in Software Development by Mary Poppendieck, Nov 2007
"In this 90-minute talk from the Agile2007 conference, Lean software thought leader Mary Poppendieck reviewed 20th century management theories, including Toyota and Deming, and went on to talk about 'the matrix problem', alignment, waste cutting, planning and standards. She closed by addressing the role of measurement: 'cash flow thinking' over 'balance sheet thinking'."
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- Competing On The Basis Of Speed by Mary Poppendieck, Dec 2006
Google posts webcasts of presentation given at the Googleplex (like this one). Here lean ideas are related to software development.
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- Lean for Software by Mary Poppendieck, Sep 2006
"I believe that the measurements imposed by traditional project management methods are the biggest impediment to the successful implementation of lean development. In particular, instead of measuring variation from plan, we need to start measuring the delivery of realized business value."
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- Why the Lean in Lean Six Sigma? by Mary Poppendieck, Jan 2006
"Lean software development changes the focus from gathering requirements to encoding all requirements in tests. It introduces the concept of refactoring, that is, creating a simple design at the beginning of development to handle early requirements, and then improving the design later."
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- Unjust Deserts by Mary Poppendieck, Jul 2004
The article explores the problems caused by performance appraisal. "Ranking people for merit raises pits individual employees against each other and strongly discourages collaboration."
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- Lean Development and the Predictability Paradox by Mary Poppendieck, Dec 2003
"The best way to achieve predictable software development outcomes is to start early, learn constantly, commit late, and deliver fast. This may seem to cut against the grain of conventional project management practice, which is supposed to give more managed, predictable results."
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- Lean Software Development by Mary Poppendieck, Sep 2003
"All lean thinking starts with a re-examination of what waste is and an aggressive campaign to eliminate it. Quite simply, anything you do that does not add value from the customer perspective is waste."
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- Lean Programming - part 1 of 2 by Mary Poppendieck, May 2001
"Assembly-line production techniques apply to software, too."
Rating: 6.0 (1 review)
- Lean Programming - part 2 of 2 by Mary Poppendieck, May 2001
"Total Quality Management still rings true for software." Not a perfect represenation of Deming's ideas (in our opinion) but an example of Deming's ideas continuing to spark interest.
Rating: 6.0 (1 review)
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