Lean software development
Agile approaches help by acknowledging the uncertainty and noise that surrounds software development projects. Their solution to this is evolutionary or emergent development. The question now is how can we improve on this? How to make the requirements process more objective and rigorous? The presentation suggests that a lack of …
Agile development practices introduced, adopted and extended the User Story as the primary currency for expressing application requirements within the agile enterprise. However, as powerful as this innovative concept is, by itself the user story does not provide an adequate construct for reasoning about investment, system-level requirements and acceptance testing …
While Agile methods have enabled organizations to understand and to adopt more disciplined software development practices, Agile can be taken advantage of by software teams in ways that can lead to less desirable results and even project failure. This presentation tells the story of an agile project staffed with veteran …
With an emphasis on value, flow and people, Lean thinking and tools enhance and reinforce existing Agile practices or a transition to Agile. In an Agile enterprise, Lean principles offer a useful guide for managers who want to focus teams on creating value for their customers and learn more about …
Talk by Alan Atlas at the Rochester Institute of Technology. The talk analyzes scrum using the seven principles of Lean software development. At the end, it proposed that the root of why scrum works is contained in these things: * One-piece flow * Self-organizing teams * Tight feedback loops * …
Myriad Genetics is a rapidly growing clinical diagnostic test laboratory. They provide a high complexity DNA sequencing test that is run using a high degree of automation. Results of the testing must be perfect. In September of 2006, laboratory reporting was averaging 28 days. While world class, we wished to …