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Lean principles for multi project environments

Lean principles for multi project environments

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 […]

What does Lean Software Development really boil down to?

What does Lean Software Development really boil down to?

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. […]

”Five times the industry average – across the Atlantic!”

”Five times the industry average – across the Atlantic!”

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 […]