Category Archives: Thoughts

The Lean Thinking is The Life’s Thinking

You can’t be lean in your job, if you don’t have lean thinking in your life.
So next time when somebody says you that he is lean in his job take a look at his life!
 

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Metaphor for Software Building :D

Can you imagine a skyscraper to be build without scaffolding ?
Now, why do we expect to create a serious software product without unit, integration, and acceptance tests ?
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Lean Principle “Eliminate Waste”

Today on one of my conference calls I observed very known situation from my past, and I remembered one example of the lean principle “Eliminate Waste”.
Building the Wrong Thing
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An Interesting Presentation About Technical Debt

Today I take a look one interesting presentation about “What is Technical Debt?”. It’s very horrifying to see scissors in somebody’s chest, but it’s not  horrifying when IT guys crash a business for million dollars and life of many people … Continue reading

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Thought of the day by David Belasco

“If you can’t write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don’t have a clear idea.”   -David Belasco

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Lean Principle “Never Fix Later!”

More than three years I was trying to transfer the jidoka approach from Toyota Production System into the software practices. Finally I find my translation, it’s very simple lean principle “Never Fix Later!”. Under the word “fix” I mean wide … Continue reading

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Thought of the day by Desiderius Erasmus

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
[In regione caecorum rex est luscus.]
Desiderius Erasmus, Adagia (III, IV, 96)
Dutch author, philosopher, & scholar (1466 – 1536)

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Thought of the day by Jason Gorman

“programming in an OO language no more makes your code OO than driving a German car makes you German.”
Jason Gorman

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Thought of the day by Jeff Patton

“Delivering stupid software faster just gets you more stupid software.”
– Jeff Patton

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Insight from London visit

Recently, I have participated in a workshop for TDD in London. This workshop help me to initiate work-out of my every day habits in writing source code. In UK I realized that the most important knowledge is the practical one. … Continue reading

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