Hi Ian, Nice to meet you. Thanks for your comments. I have not yet read the Poppendiecks' book, but I'll be attending their training in January (thanks Joey and Francis!). I'm glad you are also interested in this. I think there are many aspects where a little good thinking can go a long way to helping us work in our distributed community. I look forward to learning more about your ideas here.
take care, Brian On Sunday 22 November 2009 04:26:22 pm Ian Clatworthy wrote: > Brian Fromme wrote: > > Hello, > > > > For those of you I have not yet met, I am Brian Fromme. I have taken over > > Joey Stanford's job > > on the Launchpad team. I look forward to meeting you on-line and in > > person, when that opportunity > > arises. > > Hi Brian, > > Welcome! > > > I have been looking into the Launchpad development practices. As you may > > know, we employ a > > lean-method approach to our process improvement. > > We do. LEAN rocks. Has anyone read Mary & Tom's latest book[1]? I > ordered a copy last week but it will be a few weeks before it arrives in > this distant land. :-( > > Beyond LEAN and Agile though, we've also got "open source" thrown in > there and all that implies: distributed, community contributions, etc. > Mixing LEAN/Agile with open-source is the next big process wave IMNSHO. > I really ought to dust off CASG[2] and refresh it with my latest > thinking sometime soon. Input very welcome. Maybe I'll do that over > Christmas if I'm not hacking on bzr GUIs then. > > > Now is an excellent time for our teams to measure specific activities to > > look for possible > > improvements. As part of that process, I'll be collecting data and > > documenting our results. > > > > You can find a description of our value-stream mapping efforts here: > > > > https://dev.launchpad.net/PolicyAndProcess/Metrics/VSM > > Thanks for the link and good luck in your new role. > > Ian C. > > [1] http://www.poppendieck.com/llsd.htm > [2] http://ianclatworthy.wordpress.com/community-agile/ > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
