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!
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!
A man who can’t read specifications, manuals, and use cases !
!!! By the way don’t forget the requirement IQ test below 90 points !!!
IT’S MANDATORY.
No matter how far down the wrong road you have gone, turn back now.
- Turkish Proverb
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 ?
P.S. Please don’t forget to put wall-papers on the walls before you deconstruct the scaffolding! It’s possible some wall to fall down.
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
“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.” –Peter Drucker
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 just because they are not well prepared to see the creeping disaster!
“If you can’t write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don’t have a clear idea.” -David Belasco
Notes from Chapter 3 “Planing”
1. Agile process of planing requires
2. Correlation between quality and early delivery of a partially function system
The full info about the book is “Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices” with author Robert C. Martin