Bent Jensen is director and consultant at the Danish Agile Consulting firm BestBrains, a company that is primarily helping software companies implement faster and more effective ways to do software, with a Lean and Agile foundation. What do you see as the benefits of Agile/Lean? Agile/Lean is in my view […]
In a second conversation with Mary Poppendieck, Anders Sixtensson had the opportunity to discuss Lean Principles in a multiproject environment, and especially how these can be applied to improve the business throughput. One source Mary came back to several times was Randy Mott, CIO of Dell and later Hewlett Packard, whose […]
Anders Sixtensson, senior consultant and Lean expert at Softhouse Consulting, has collected a number of frequently asked questions from managers and others during his Lean assignments and tutorials. In a discussion with Mary Poppendieck, creator of Lean Software Development, he tries to walk through some issues that always come up. […]
A professional approach in software development started in 1990 when I was offered a job at SAS Institute as consultant/developer/trainer. A few years later I was part of an R&D facility in Copenhagen, creating Business Intelligence software specifically for the European markets. The Agile leap came in the year 2000, […]
Recently Jeff Sutherland studied Scrum in an outsourced organization at SirsiDynix. The findings were quite extraordinary: this intercontinental project achieved a productivity of five times the industry average. Here, Sutherland describes the project in his own words. – Well, to take it from the start, Jack Blount was CEO of […]
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