A Happy New Year to all my readers! First posted 31st December 2003:
(2019-07-15) Most of these links are dead now. Steph Gray has a new personal blog, and now runs a company called Helpful Digital. Limited WIP society have moved to a Ning… Here are some sites I’ve started following this week: limitedwipsociety.org – “the home of kanban for software development” A Load of Cobblers – Steph Gray is Head of Digital Engagement at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, and his main blog is Helpful Technology.
How can visual models improve the flow of work during programme shaping? This is the sixth post in a series about applying the lessons of lean (especially lean software development) to the shaping phase of programme management. In previous posts I have talked about amplifying learning, the application of the ideas of flow and a value stream to programme shaping, and touched on sources of “waste” in the typical programme environment.
A few years ago I started a separate blog (www.synesthesia.co.uk/msp) , primarily as a learning document whilst taking my MSP qualification. That blog finished serving its (primarily personal) purpose over a year ago, and I feel it’s time to retire it. Some posts may have value, if only to myself, and I have transferred those to the MSP Blog category on this blog. Redirects should all now be in place, so I have deleted the old directories.
(2019-07-15) Source links seem to be broken now, however there is a new article from the same author (Leonard Greski) - Assessing the Value of Software Applications with Business Capability Models I’ve just been reading a couple of articles on this topic in the online version of Architecture and Governance Magazine. (registration required to read full article text). In Business Capability Modeling: Theory & Practice, author Leonard Greski gives a good overview of the process steps:
Unfortunately the links to a personal instance of Wikka, and the images on the old blog post have not survived various hosting changes. I can't find source files from which I developed the architecture drawings either. Ten years on I still think it is informative to think through the performance of PKM processes in terms of roles, and this is something to revisit. Back in July Harold Jarche posted a useful deconstruction of the processes involved in web-based personal knowledge management (PKM).
This is the fifth post in a series of thought experiments on applying Lean/Agile principles to the early shaping stages of a programme. In previous posts I have talked about the application of the ideas of flow and a value stream to programme shaping, and touched on sources of “waste” in the typical programme environment. Again borrowing heavily from the Poppendiecks for my conceptual structure, I want to think about learning in our context, and how we can make it work better.
(2019-07-15) Updated metadata. Sadly CIMA seem to have retired the community blogs site so the core post and paper referenced in this post are now lost to the world Louise Ross from the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants has created a blog post and paper to guide CIMA members on constructing business cases for Enterprise 2.0 efforts. [via Bill Ives]. In the paper Louise sets out 20 brief case studies from various companies, and surveys typical commercial uses for a wide range of social tools.
This is the fourth post in a series of thought experiments on applying Lean/Agile principles to the early shaping stages of a programme. In the last two posts I started to explore how we could find the value stream in the “messy” stages of early programme shaping. In this post I will turn to the concept of “waste” in our context. In the classic Toyota Production System, seven types of waste are identified:
This is the third post in a series of thought experiments on applying Lean/Agile principles to the early shaping stages of a programme. In the previous post I started to explore how we could find the value stream in the “messy” stages of early programme shaping. Before I go on to explore the concept of “waste” in our context, I want to say a bit more about the value stream.