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November 2007

Featuritis and the Customer Experience

by Pete Abilla on November 18, 2007

Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn The more I learn and practice ethnography and design-thinking, the more I notice subtle but incredibly frustrating experiences.  For example, I had a frustrating experience with a faucet that was in the hospital room where our adopted baby girl, Mylie, was born.  This [...]

Bottlenecks and Fast Food

by Pete Abilla on November 17, 2007

Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn One of the key lessons in is that the contraint or the bottleneck determines the throughput for the entire system.  This means, then, that if we optimize and improve a non-bottleneck, then those efforts have almost zero impact on the overall throughput of [...]

Ask Mary Poppendieck Anything!

by Pete Abilla on November 11, 2007

Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn 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. Here are Mary Poppendieck’s other responses to readers’ questions: Original Article to Ask [...]

We’ve Adopted a Baby Girl

by Pete Abilla on November 9, 2007

baby girl adoption, domestic adoption

Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Our little baby girl was born yesterday.  Mylie is our 7th child and we brought her into our family through adoption.  For long-time shmula readers, you might remember that we just adopted Preston last year.  Yup, we did it again 1 year later, [...]

Aza Raskin on Cooperation & Fence Throwing

by Pete Abilla on November 7, 2007

Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Aza Raskin is the founder of Humanized, the son of Macintosh inventor, Jef Raskin, and an all-around good guy.  A few months ago, Aza Raskin agreed to answer several readers’ questions.   In today’s post, Aza Raskin tackles a reader’s question about Product Management, [...]

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