bliki tagged by: lean
AgileVersusLean
I'm thinking of using agile software development - but should I use Lean software development instead?
26 June 2008
ToyotaFailings
One of the arguments used to support the adoption of lean techniques in software is the success of Toyota. So do Toyota's recent quality failings undermine the case for lean software development?
2 March 2010
MetaphoricQuestioning
As regular readers of my work may know, I'm very suspicious of using metaphors of other professions to reason about software development. In particular, I believe the engineering metaphor has done our profession damage - in that it has encouraged the notion of separating design from construction.
As I was hanging around our London office, this issue came up in
the context of Lean Manufacturing, a metaphor that's used quite
often in agile circles - particularly by the Poppendiecks
16 December 2004