emails can be muda too
People who aren't authorised to spend money still get to waste it in huge quantities
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bug bounties
May 19, 2006
Some major companies have begun rewarding their testers with cash for finding serious defects prior to release; it seems to me that this approach is seriously flawed
inventory in software development
May 6, 2006
One of the central tenets of lean is that inventory is not an asset, but is waste. In particular, carrying inventory incurs storage costs. What is the analogue to this in software development?
multi-tasking in the news
March 24, 2006
Over a year ago I wrote about the muda of multi-tasking and the delays it will inevitably cause. I had been prompted by the planning approach used by my client at the time, and by a rush of articles in various blogs and magazines, and this week it’s happening all over again. Kathy Sierra discusses… [Read more…]
corporate muda – a recap
January 13, 2006
A collection of things I've said in the past about waste in large organisations
more on multi-tasking
December 13, 2004
The other day I noticed an interesting side-effect of multi-tasking… In the very strange organisation where I currently work everyone works on many pieces of work simultaneously. And the historical mind-set means that every task or workflow item requires many people to complete it. This week a number of times I found myself frustrated because… [Read more…]
the muda of multi-tasking
December 2, 2004
Multi-tasking seems to be the topic of the week: Clark says it makes you stupid; Johanna has developed a new workshop simulation to demonstrate the problems it can cause; and Tony Rizzo has written about it here, here and here in the last couple of weeks alone! (I haven’t seen any case studies per se,… [Read more…]
software muda workshop
October 22, 2004
Andy Lawrence and I ran our workshop on muda in software development processes yesterday at the Agile Business Conference
I'm Kevin Rutherford, from Macclesfield in the UK. I'm an independent agile software coach and mentor, specialising in test-driven development, agile, lean and the theory of constraints.
June 9, 2006
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