November 2009
5 posts
“SPIEGEL: You include a nice list by the French philosopher Roland Barthes in...”
– Umberto Eco on Lists (Spiegel Interview)
annotate models plugin
Just discovered Annotate Models plugin for rails (thanks to post in railspikes). Looks fab.
Problem-driven development?
Another reflection after listening to Seddon on “Rethinking Lean Service”
Seddon argues that you need to let the actual problems (that disrupt your delivery of value) dictate what activities you perform, and what processes you set up. This implies that you need to be brave enough to allow problems to occur (and have a way of catching and solving them). It means (in software terms)...
Study your organisation as a system
Thanks to Mark for encouraging me to listen to this great podcast of John Seddon rethinking “Lean” and going back to its roots in the Toyota / Japanese miracle
Some notes:
Customer pull, worker pull. Let workers improve (and own!) the processes.
Let the problems you encounter determine the processes you set up.
The measures in use must relate to the customer (“For any flow,...