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August 2006

Interview with Mary Poppendieck

by Pete Abilla on August 21, 2006

lean leadership in software development

Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Mary Poppendieck was gracious enough to agree to an interview. She brought the concept of Lean to Agile and is a thought leader in the Agile/Lean for Software space. She is the co-author of Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit for Software Development [...]

Click-to-Ship: Delivery Process Times

by Pete Abilla on August 19, 2006

amazon.com delivery shipping times

Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Most online businesses that sell hardgoods explain delivery times as the following: {[click + buffer + fulfillment processes] + [delivery time]} = [Total Delivery Time] The equation above is common in fulfillment operations, assuming the inventory is housed somewhere, such as a warehouse, [...]

Neighbor Dog Pooping On My Lawn

by Pete Abilla on August 18, 2006

Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Neighbor dog pooping in my yard. Yes, that describes my neighbor. They have a really nice black lab, but he roams our neighborhood unattended. During his galavanting around the block, he leaves “calling cards” on the lawns of our neighborhood, including ours. Yuck! [...]

Root Cause Analysis

by Pete Abilla on August 16, 2006

example of root cause analysis, how to do root cause

Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Since everything that is in motion must be moved by something, let us suppose there is a thing in motion which was moved by something else in motion, and that by something else, and so on. But this series cannot go on to [...]

Queueing Theory: Part 3

by Pete Abilla on August 14, 2006

Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn I previously wrote on Queueing Theory and titled those posts as Queueing Theory: Part 1 and Queueing Theory: Part 2. Today, I’ll briefly explain how to set-up a model in Microsoft Excel to simulate a Single-Server Queue. Queueing Theory shows the interplay between [...]

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