In Italy we aren't just able to cook nicely but we also take a look at how we develop software to try to improve. :) The Italian Agile Day is one of the most...
0 replies - 1850 views - 11/26/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
Contracts are often a pain point of Agile transitions: how can you establish iterations where you deliver working software every two weeks, and collect...
0 replies - 2111 views - 08/13/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
The last two Lean tools we will explore are related to Systems Thinking: concretely, a way for modeling your team or company as a whole, without the usual...
0 replies - 2789 views - 08/06/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
Refactoring is one of the basic tools in Agile development: it consists in changing the form of the code without changing its function. While refactoring, you...
0 replies - 3108 views - 08/01/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
We will now explore the Lean principle "Build Integrity In" and its applications to every day coding, starting from software integrity. Integrity has...
0 replies - 3447 views - 07/18/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
Sensei Claudio Perrone says that Lean is making money by investing on people (more than on processes or technology, for example).What are the competitive...
0 replies - 2821 views - 07/11/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
According to the Poppendiecks, the differences between a manager and a leader is that a manager cope with complexity while a leader cope with change (which is...
0 replies - 2636 views - 07/04/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
There is a great difference between a team where people want to work and one where they're looking forward to 5 PM and to go home. I suppose we don't need any...
0 replies - 3200 views - 06/27/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
We are in the realm of the "Empower the team" principle. If it seems a fluffy topic, bear with me. It is difficult to face because it involves...
0 replies - 3017 views - 06/20/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
Let's try to answer a question which many programmers would find not so important. Why is every Lean practitioner obsessed with delivering early?Of course, a...
0 replies - 4915 views - 06/13/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
Our model of tasks passing through a value stream to be completed (for example: coded, tested and deployed) is interestingly similar to a more general one that...
0 replies - 3956 views - 06/06/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
In the next few articles of this series based on Lean software development: an Agile toolkit, we will explore the Deliver as fast as possible principle, the...
0 replies - 3379 views - 05/30/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
Product development and by extension software development is a game of decisions:should the application include a feature to block users?Does class A or class...
0 replies - 4652 views - 05/23/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
Options Thinking lead us to invest time and money in delaying decisions to a time where we know the most about it; the extreme application of the Decide as...
0 replies - 3157 views - 05/09/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
Agreement over a decision can be reached either via point-based proposals or via set-based ones; in this context, the decision can be a design-related one like...
0 replies - 4296 views - 04/24/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
