Solution Focused Agility in Projects and Management

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Permalink Reply by Hans-Peter Korn on December 6, 2009 at 10:50

Lean Development - Synergetic with SF?

In the last months I recognized an increasing popularity of "Lean Development" especially in the area of software development. A closer look will show, that "Agile Development" is very overlapping with "Lean Development", which has a better acceptance on management level than "Agility" which sounds a bit strange in the ears of some managers.... read more ==> here

Permalink Reply by Hans-Peter Korn on December 11, 2009 at 9:43

SF conqueres Software Development

See this ==> blog

Permalink Reply by Hans-Peter Korn on January 3, 2010 at 23:06

Solutions Focus aka Delta Method
Alistair Cockburn, (pronounced Co-burn, the Scottish way) is an internationally renowned project witchdoctor and IT strategist, best known for describing Software development as a Cooperative Game and for helping craft the Agile Development Manifesto, had a meeting in London in Nov 2009 together with Mark McKergow and Andy Pols to discuss Solutions Focus and Agile development.
Mark wrote up that meeting on this ==> SOL blog.
And Alistair created on his website this ==> page about Solutions Focus aka Delta Method and integrated more comments from Mark and me into it.

Permalink Reply by Hans-Peter Korn on January 6, 2010 at 22:49

... and the discussion is going on here: http://alistair.cockburn.us/Solutions+Focus+aka+Delta+Method and Mark provided a nice illustration to this "Delta Effect"

Permalink Reply by Hans-Peter Korn on January 16, 2010 at 9:36

Scrum derives from complex adaptive systems with an indirect linkage to Lean.

Recently I found an interesting blog written by Jeff Sutherland (who as the very first did "Scrum" in 1993) discussing the connections between Scrum (as one of the most prominent "Agile Frameworks") and "Lean". His essence:

1. Scrum is not a direct descendant of Lean. It derives from complex adaptive systems with an indirect linkage to Lean through Takeuchi and Nonaka.

2. Management is interested in Lean, partcularly in Europe. Building on that interest and any knowledge they have about Toyota makes it easier to describe why Scrum works.

3. Lean is a good teaching tool to show Scrum teams why their implementations are broken. For example, if you do not have fully tested code and cannot create potentially shippable code in a Sprint, you have 100% work in progress going into the next Sprint.

Here is this blog:
The First Scrum: Was it Scrum or Lean?

Permalink Reply by Hans-Peter Korn on January 16, 2010 at 9:36

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