Since times immemorial, ideas, objects and experiences of grand stature and lasting economic, social and emotional value have been created by men and women working together in teams. Granted that some extraordinary work in the fields of arts, philosophy and sciences was done by truly exceptional individuals, apparently working alone, I suspect that they too [...]
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Traditional software development follows a quintessential Waterfall model. Among its many limitations, originally discussed by Winston Royce in his 1970 classic paper “Managing the Development of Large Software Systems” and many more thereafter, it also forces a build-up of ‘work-in progress’, or inventory of unfinished work that has not yet been delivered to the customer, [...]
Second part of my article on exploring how Little’s Law related to the Agile Project Management just got printed in PM World Today. Here is the abstract:
Little’s Law[1] states that inventory in a process is the multiplication of throughput and the flow-time[2]. In first paper[3] of this two-part series, we took an every-day example to discuss Little’s [...]
My article by this title got published in PM World Today, Nov 2008 issue. Here is the abstract:
Little’s Law states that inventory in a process is the multiplication of throughput and the flow-time. While this seems intuitive, it helps us establish a mathematical relationship between basic factors that govern performance of a production process: arrival [...]
The Swiss Army manual says: When the map and the terrain disagree, trust the terrain. However, in software industry, there seems to be an unending effort to make sure the terrain is retrofitted so that it looks much more like the map in hand ! So, I have modified the Swiss Army saying to suit the [...]
Scrum offers a fresh approach of software development. However, the philosophy itself is not entirely new. It has been around in various disciplines for quite some time, and it is only now that the software community has woken up to it. I found an everyday example of my son’s full academic year as a great [...]
We had the second meeting of SAC last Sunday, 10-Aug. This time, we had five attendees, and except for Venkatesh and Tathagat, the other three came for their first meeting: Venkat (Philips/NXP), Bhaskar (Software AG) and Rafi (Alcatel-Lucent). As there were new members, we diligently invested a good amount of time on coffee, socializing and digging out [...]
