Skip process – blinding darkness, Follow it – darkening blindness

Skip process…. enter into blinding darkness Follow process…………. embrace darkening blindness (greater darkness). Skipping processes will never be good for the long term stability of the organization. Chaos will prevail and products and services will be delivered based on few Heroics rather than disciplined methods. Since it depends on few heroics of extremely talented resources, [...]

Thirukkural – FMEA, Elimination of MUDA

A great Management and Productive thought of Thirukkural Verse : EthirathAk  kAkkum Arivinaarku Illai Athira Varuvuthor Noy Direct meaning: Those people of capable intellect who can feel the imminent pains and have plans to tackle them,  know not of any fear from sufferings. Lean Six Sigma inference A Six Sigma methodology foresees and expects pain [...]

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 =   [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Six Sigma in Software organizations – benefits

When organizations want to reduce cost and improve productivity Six Sigma initiatives are mainly considered by organizations that have firm belief in Quality.   However a careful analysis should be made to ensure that the benefits obtained are much higher than the actual investment. Incorrect project candidates without proper tools and skilled resources will result [...]

Six Sigma in Software Development

In principle Six Sigma applies to all industries when looking at reducing variations and achieving Critical to Quality Objectives. Many Six Sigma professionals agree with one point that Cost savings / Return on investment is definitely a major element when drawing the project charter. In IT industries since the requirements are continuously changing and Agile [...]