Seek and analyze data

Nallthorum Nadi Muraiseyya  Mannavan
Nallthorum Nadu Kedum.
 King who daily seeks to Analyze not, will lead his nation gradually perish
 A Leader who does not seek and analyze data will come to see his nation / corporation leading to attrition.
 In Agile analogy the product owner who is not collaboratively involved with his scrum master and the team on [...]

Goal Question Metrics – Agile Scrum

 

Apply Parkinson’s Law, Remove MUDA

Work expands to fill the time available for its completion – Parkinson’s Law.
Parkinson’s Law stated as early as 1950’s had a great flavor of Removing MUDA. The demand for completing a work by a resource will try to occupy total time available (supply) for the resource making the work inefficient. It means if 100 hours [...]

Audit a cup or coffee?

Audit  a cup or coffee?
Fundamental drivers of a project success like Budget, Schedule and Quality should be kept in mind during auditing a project.
While Budget is not a direct audit element, Schedule and Quality are.  
If   Y = Success of project
X = combination of   ‘x’s like Budget, Quality and Schedule
Y = F (Budget, Quality, Schedule)
While [...]

Lean on Eight Quality Management Principles

Principle 1: Customer focus
Principle 2: Leadership
Principle 3: Involvement of people
Principle 4: Process approach
Principle 5: System approach to management
Principle 6: Continual improvement
Principle 7: Factual approach to decision making
Principle 8: Mutually beneficial supplier relationships
Customer Focus:

Lean focuses on bringing out the best Value of a product to customers. In Agile projects Lean aspects are taken care through [...]

Agile rules

Let us see some of the merits of Agile:
Embracing change

Agile does not just manage the changes. Changes are way of development in Agile. Downstream activities like releasing product to the product owner and further rolling it to the end user means the product is used immediately without much wait time. The product owner gets [...]

Remaining stories Vs Remaining Hours

Some of backlog management tools use remaining hours as the measure to calculate the backlog items pending for the sprints.
While it is easy for any resource / team to think in terms of remaining hours rather than quantum of work pending, we will try and analyze few points here.
If the development team / Scrum master [...]

Agile follows Ohm’s Law

Lean follow Ohm’s Law. Ohm’s law can be stated as the current in a resistive circuit is directly proportional to its applied voltage and inversely proportional to its resistance.
 
In equation I = V / R
 
Usable Product = Value Added Inputs / Wastes
 
Any usable software or hard ware =
 
(Clear Requirements, inputs, understanding)
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Waiting time for [...]

Agile maps to Lean – Muda, Mura and Muri

Dr. Shigeo Shingo and Mr. Taichi Ohno have contributed immensely towards improving production processes at Toyota through concepts Muda, Mura and Muri. They enriched the Toyota Production system now became to be called as famous Lean Production system.

Let us try to understand the meaning w.r.t Industry in general and software development in particular.

Muda : Non [...]

Lean Agile

Lean management approach advises:
 
Waste Elimination.
Speedier flow of information and work, and faster time to market.
Doing only what is required for customer currently.
Reducing life cycle and cost.
 
Most of the Software development organizations have multiple hand-offs right from Sales to Business Analysts through Requirement, Design, Development, testing and Deployment teams before a product or service is delivered [...]