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Law of Instinct

by Pete Abilla November 17, 2008

I love data, but not much credit is given to hunch; gut, instinct.  Colin Powell, in his Laws of Leadership, shares what he calls his Law of Instinct.  He claims the following: Part I: Use the formula P@40-to-70, in which P stands for the probability of success and the numbers indicate the percentage of information [...]

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Not Accountable, Not Responsible

by Pete Abilla August 9, 2008

Team size can make a big difference in the success of your service or product. What is counterintuitive for most people is that the larger the team size, the lower the likelihood of success for your service or product.  Why? Entropy can set in and large teams are inherently bad vehicles for communication. More insipid, [...]

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Agile, Lean, and the Silver Bullet

by Pete Abilla December 11, 2007

Today, Mary Poppendieck responds to Corey Ladas‘ question on the relationship between Agile and Lean and what to make of all the methodologies in software engineering. Corey Ladas said, November 28, 2007 @ 4:23 pm Lean would seem to allow for a broader set of ideas and practices than some Agile adherents would find acceptable. [...]

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Poppendieck: Should Lean be top-down or bottom-up?

by Pete Abilla December 5, 2007

Last week, I invited the readers of shmula to pose questions to Mary and Tom Poppendieck, the authors of Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit for Software Development Managers (Paperback), which won the Software Development Productivity Award in 2004 and, the sequel Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash (Paperback).  Several questions were submitted [...]

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Poppendieck on Waste & The Handoff

by Pete Abilla December 2, 2007

Last week, I invited the readers of shmula to pose questions to Mary and Tom Poppendieck, the authors of Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit for Software Development Managers (Paperback), which won the Software Development Productivity Award in 2004 and, the sequel Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash (Paperback).  Several questions were submitted [...]

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Ask Mary Poppendieck Anything!

by Pete Abilla November 11, 2007

In August 2006, Mary Poppendieck was nice enough to entertain questions from my readers on the topic of Lean for Software.  Some great questions were submitted and Mary answered them.  Well, she’s willing to do that again, so please submit your questions for Mary and she will answer some of those questions.  I will then [...]

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Aza Raskin on Feature Bloat & Clutter

by Pete Abilla August 26, 2007

In a previous post on Ethnography, I invited Aza Raskin, founder of Humanized, a company that designs more humane products — from consumer packaged goods to software interfaces — and, son of Jef Raskin, the inventor of the Macintosh and author of The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems — to possibly answer [...]

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Aza Raskin on Quasimodal Design & The ATM

by Pete Abilla August 21, 2007
This entry is part 3 of 5 in the series Aza Raskin

In a previous post on Ethnography, I invited Aza Raskin, founder of Humanized, a company that designs more humane products — from consumer packaged goods to software interfaces — and, son of Jef Raskin, the inventor of the Macintosh and author of The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems — to possibly answer [...]

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Aza Raskin on Poka-Yoke & Humane Interfaces

by Pete Abilla August 19, 2007
This entry is part 4 of 5 in the series Aza Raskin

In a previous post on Ethnography, I invited Aza Raskin, founder of Humanized, a company that designs more humane products — from consumer packaged goods to software interfaces — and, son of Jef Raskin, the inventor of the Macintosh and author of The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems — to possibly answer [...]

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