List/Grid Tag Archives: Lean
Predictability – Making Promises you can Keep
Speed – being first to market, rapid innovation and conducting fast cheap experiments – is critically important to startups and many high tech firms. This is where Lean Startup ...
Throughput Planning – Why Project Managers Should Like Lean and Agile
Project managers in IT have a tough job. I’ve been there myself, and I have also coached a large number of project managers (PM) throughout my travels consulting for a number ...
Sooner or Later: Deliver Early or Minimize Waste
There’s an obvious but important tension in Lean/Agile development around when to make decisions. Between the fundamental Agile position that we should do the most important and most ...
Lean IT fundamentals & principles
The roots of Lean IT are – as the name suggests – in Lean Management. The basic principles of Lean Management had been developed in Toyota’s Production System, that ...
Infrastructure, Technical Debt, and Automated Test Framework
I’ve had several conversations in email and with clients recently that have all been about this question: “What do we do about our infrastructure?” Either the project or the program ...
