I’ve been writing now for about 2 years on the topic of process design, and I’ve enjoyed every minute of it. So much so, in fact, that I’ve decided to move this blog to a full-time venture. Future posts (and some re-posts of material on this site) can be found at TrueLeanDevelopment.com, a business dedicated… [Read more…]
May 24, 2010
I’ve often told teams of folks working within the boundaries of some larger process that if they want to see another team improve, they are first going to have to be beyond reproach within the confines of what they can control. For example, one development team that worked for me was convinced that the problem… [Read more…]
May 16, 2010
There’s sort of this ongoing battle at work about percents. Should you use them or not? For example, is it better to say we had 50 requirements defects this month or that 10% of all our defects this month were requirements? I’m not sure it’s the absolute right answer, but I now have a philosophy.… [Read more…]
May 10, 2010
Here’s an interesting example of potential demand shaping I ran into at a pizza joint near work. Now, I’ll admit that Bill’s Pizza (note the sad missing apostrophe) was probably not attempting to demand shape with this promotion, but in effect they have. By offering a lower price earlier, they are essentially encouraging early orders,… [Read more…]
April 21, 2010
Not that long ago I was attending a meeting with a large number of people. It was one of those motivational type meetings – no real goals, just trying to get people to think differently. I’m never really a fan of these things anyway. I don’t believe that people are introspective enough to take much… [Read more…]
April 18, 2010
Have you ever had that moment of excitement when someone approaches you with a process problem and asks for your help? (Am I that much of a nerd to get excited by that?) You say to them “do you have data?” and to your surprise they “yes, I do.” By itself, that answer can send… [Read more…]
April 5, 2010
In standard teenage fashion, the child of a friend of mine posted this to Facebook “science seems way better its awesome what we r learning do not thing of me as a dork i just like learining about interseting stuff” (all errors were kept in deliberately). I read it once or twice and could basically… [Read more…]
April 5, 2010
One of the criticisms that I’ve heard of function points is that they are highly correlated to lines of code, or at least have appeared so in studies done. To some advocates of function points, this is disheartening because function points (FP) were supposed to be measuring a different construct from lines of code (LOC).… [Read more…]
March 29, 2010
Dear lord, it’s a statistics entry! Run for your lives! No, no, I promise this will be as painless as possible for you all. I want to talk about log-transformed charts. Why? Well, we often log transform a chart axis in order to expose data. When data has an extreme range, subtle details in the… [Read more…]
March 24, 2010
I ran into a great story on the critical few that I couldn’t help but share with you all. One of the memberships my company has is to the Corporate Executive Board (CEB, hereafter). They’re like Forrester or Gartner Group in terms of doing research that the resell to companies as a service. Want to… [Read more…]
June 2, 2010
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