Tag Archives: Lean

The unknown variable, Che Guevara theories applied to agile teams

By toni | Published: March 1, 2010

In Che: Part One, Ernesto Che Guevara states:
In War and Peace Tolstoy remarks that military science assumes that bigger armies with more men wield greater force.
On the other hand, only vaguely, do they recognize that during military combat the final strength of an army is also its true physical capacity multiplied by one unknown variable.
One [...]

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5S and Software Development

By toni | Published: January 4, 2010

Phase 1 – Seiri, Sorting: Going through all the tools, materials, etc., in the plant and work area and keeping only essential items. Everything else is stored or discarded.

Remove unused code
Uninstall useless software
Remove unused libraries

Phase 2 – Seiton, Straighten or Set in Order: the intent is to arrange the tools, equipment and parts in a [...]

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choose your next car: fiat duna, toyota prius or ferrari f60?

By toni | Published: July 26, 2009

If  you’re lucky, you can afford Craftsmanship, good for you. You’ll have top quality, in a hand crafted sports car.
Or if you didn’t follow the market in the last 20 years you’ll opt for a second hand Fiat Duna, mass produced in Brazil in the nineties and you will spend almost nothing (well not including [...]

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A very long list of Agile, Lean & C. books

By toni | Published: June 10, 2009

I’ve used to have this list on a Google Spreadsheet, it took me quite a while to sort it (the first 3-5 books for each category are more essential than the others) and place the links, but here it is, more than sixty agile-related books!
Agile Process

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Agile Estimating and Planning by [...]

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