Category Archives: lean
The perils of estimation
Business people want estimates. They want to know how much it’s going to cost them to get a solution, and they want to know how likely it is to come in on time and on budget. And of course quality is not negotiable. Agile teams I encounter are at best nervous about estimates and at […]
Learning to Lean
A discussion unfolded recently on an internal mailing list that tied together two of my favourite topics, namely learning theory and Lean. Someone was asking how they might apply Lean to setting up and running a new project. A number of people made suggestions, all of which were the kind of good common sense I […]
