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Monthly Archives: December 2008
How Agile Practices address the Five Dysfunctions of a Team ?
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, …more
Toyota’s Wisdom for Tomorrow’s Managers
 I just completed first draft of this paper for business review magazine of a city college of business administration. If it gets selected for publication, you will get to read the full paper on this site . Here is the abstract: Toyota’s pioneering work in automobile production systems continues …more
Nice video on Waterfall vs. Agile…
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDDO3ob-4ZY
Applying Little’s Law to Agile Project Management - Part 2
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 …more
What kind of “Managers stick with poor performers rather than hire new faces” ?
I am sure you have heard it in all versions, subversions and perversions, but one simple universal workplace truth seems to be don’t tolerate poor performance, and if not outrightly eliminate poor performers, do ease them out over a reasonable but fast period of time. The yawning gap between a …more
