This week I’ve come across a few articles that clicked together as I read them, and in so doing they reinforced one of my deepest beliefs about software development – or any other profession, for that matter. The articles were: Train Wreck Management by Mary Poppendieck, in which Mary chronicles the origins of “management” and… [Read more…]
June 12, 2007
If you’re interested in the Theory of Constraints and you’re based in the UK or EU, Clarke Ching’s proposal could be right up your street: “If there is enough interest then I will kickoff a low-cost TOC mini-conference in the UK later this year. It will probably be held in Edinburgh during late-september or october… [Read more…]
October 24, 2006
Last week in the Carnival of the Agilists I linked to Emmanuel Gaillot’s article about borrowing time as a way to effect guerilla process improvement. Willem van den Ende has followed up on this by creating diagrams of effects to model the original article. Recommended reading.
June 1, 2006
Lecturing can get an agile transition off to a bad start; here are some alternatives
May 30, 2006
Rami Goldratt's paper describing his improved version of the transition tree is now available in English; download the PDF document here
February 24, 2005
If you need information about a story in order to assess it's business value or development cost, don't implement the story! Instead, build a quick spike
February 2, 2005
I plan to update many of the posts here with Evaporating Clouds to depict the core issues I've been writing about
January 17, 2005
In a dysfunctional organisation, even pencils can be exorbitantly expensive
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.
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