May 2012
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August 2011
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The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 90 percent of the...
– Tom Cargill. Bell Labs.
It sounds a bit funny, yet so many times it’s true. The question is why?
The reason is what I call: “The Waterfall Trap.” Any project, at the moment it starts, uses logic, knowledge, experience and good practices to guess the future. That’s right the...
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July 2011
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Kanban: Fly Different - An Introduction.
Several people have asked me to explain the basics of Kanban’s Agile approach to Software Development. This presentation is a simple, straight forward, fun way to get what Kanban is all about. Feel free to comment on it, or contribute for a future revision.
You can click above to see it, or get the full file here in iWork, I do recommend you use...
June 2011
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March 2011
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January 2011
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December 2010
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HKanban - A Holistic Approach to Getting Things...
STANDING ON THE SHOULDERS OF GREAT MEN
Like so many Project Managers and busy professionals I too have discovered that is not just enough to manage other people, or the work at hand, we have to manage our efforts in and out of the office, and daily life can be the biggest challenge of all. The first author to show us ways to improve our productivity was David Allen, his Getting Things Done...
November 2010
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October 2010
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Real artists ship.
– Andy Hertzfeld, member of the original Mac team.
No amount of vision, no dreams, no project plans, patents or detailed battle plans are worth anything without real working execution!
Hard work, and shipping are the big difference between amateurs and pros.
Pros ship!
September 2010
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Is Kaizen Enough?
Kaizen. Japanese for “improvement” is the word behind Toyota’s Total Quality obsession, although nowadays it has suffered in it’s quest to be the number one automaker.
Kaizen origin however goes back to the legacy of a very smart American, Edwards Deming, the father of Total Quality, and the Deming’s Cycle. His ideas went beyond Japan to affect our expectations of products and services....
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Out of all the Agile Project Management methodologies out there: Kanban is smart...
– Yours truly, inspired by the post of Al Shalloway.