Agile DNA

XP Cinci is back on-line.

One of the focus areas of Six-Sigma, is the reduction of variation. Variation is the slightly different ways that people go about implementing a process. Reduction of variation ensures a consistent process deliverable, which then can be kept consistent while it is improved.
In Object-Oriented Design this is accomplished with Abstraction. An abstract bit of code will solve various problems in the same way.

The typical Data-Driven approach is to ...

I just read an interesting article (by Freddy Balle & Michael Balle) describing Lean and previous production methods.

Heres the punch line:

Ultimately, to compete, all companies will have to adopt lean principles simply because it is currently the only know way to resolve a fundamental industrial conundrum.

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Delta and Northwest declare bankruptcy. What can software prople learn from this?

From New York Times

Southwest's chief, Gary C. Kelly, said airlines could not grow and become profitable by making workers pay the price.

"If you don't treat your people right, you pay the price," said Mr. Kelly, whose unionized airline pays some of the highest wages in the industry, even though its overall costs are among the lowest.

Mr. Kelly, whose low-fare airline has a higher market capitalization than all its major rivals combined, likewise had little sympathy for the pain that fuel prices had inflicted on Northwest and Delta.

Southwest is a Lean-Thinking airline. They know how to generate ...