Random Notes while reading http://leansoftwareengineering.com - II
Is this just another Agile blog?
Hmmm... Deming and Ohno over Ward and Kent? Customers over developers? Sounds different (and interesting).
Release early, release often
Jim McCarthy? Interesting - I referred to the VC++ in the mid-90's in my previous post, which was the time of Jim McCarthy on that team.
OK, based on what's said in this post I get why the earlier post talked about software services and online applications. Lots of new concepts and ideas here: minimum deployable feature set, ideal final result, minimal testable customer value, minimize work in process.
Schedule is orthogonal to workflow
I'm not sure I grok the whole import of this post but one thing that does resonate is the minimalism of Scrum. I've seen multiple instances of people tying practices to Scrum that I didn't get from reading the literature. Most of those efforts could not be called successes. I like that the folks here are not taking the definition as something to be followed like a recipe but are looking at the essence and trying to improve it. Kind of like what they're suggesting with the software engineering process itself they're proposing.
More later...