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Bookmarks for November 14th through November 16th

by Ron Bieber on Sunday, November 16, 2008

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Metrics as a Side Effect – Its REAL.

May 19, 2008

Its been over a year since I wrote Metrics As A Side Effect, explaining how my perfect time tracking system would be something based on a Twitter like application. Imagine my surprise when I found that Harvest Time Tracking Software enables Twitter updates. Its not exactly how I described it, [...]

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links for 2008-02-23

February 22, 2008

Training Within Industry Service Homepage and Original Manuals
“This is the premier source for Training Within Industry content, which puts the powerful tools of “the most under-rated achievement of the 20th century” into the hands of every person, every where. “
(tags: lean toyota training materials)

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Agile / Lean or Common Sense and Permission To Change?

October 21, 2007

As anyone who reads this blog regularly knows, I’ve spent a lot of time over the last 3-4 years studying agile methodologies and most recently lean concepts and principles. I have most recently been reading a couple of books by Ricardo Semler, who runs his company in a completely democratic way – doing away [...]

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Audio Books Completed.

July 27, 2007

First day of vacation is today. Last night completed the three audio books that were sitting on my iPod. “How to Win Friends & Influence People” (Dale Carnegie), “God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything” (Christopher Hitchens), and “Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit” (Daniel Quinn). [...]

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Organizational Features of a Lean Plant

April 30, 2007

I’m reading The Machine That Changed the World : The Story of Lean Production by James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones, and Daniel Roos. It is an extremely interesting book.
I ran into this small paragraph yesterday that for some reason stuck in my head as something important:

The truly lean plant has two [...]

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Metrics As A Side Effect

April 15, 2007

Yesterday morning I found an article by a former employee who has recently introduced Scrum to his organization called Beef Up Your Scrum-Master Toolbox up on the Devx site. Since Doug started his blog and then subsequently left the company, I’ve enjoyed keeping up with his new adventures and I went right to [...]

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Lean Principles from the Source

October 8, 2006

I’ve started reading The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles From The World’s Greatest Manufacturer by Jeffrey Liker. I’ve figured that as my curiosity peaks on Lean Development and Lean Principles in general, I might as well go to the source.
Chapter One opens with a quote from Fujio Cho, the president of Toyota Motor [...]

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Value Stream Mapping Software

October 2, 2006

I’m looking for software that does Value Stream Mapping. As with mind mapping, this process is an extreme pain without a tool to do it. If you know of any good software (or component add ons for existing software like Visio), please leave a comment on the blog. [...]

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New Book Ordered

September 13, 2006

I just put in my order for Fearless Change: Patterns for Introducing New Ideas by Mary Lynn Manns and Linda Rising, after hearing an interview with Mary Lynn on this episode of the Agile Toolkit podcast. The book sounds quite interesting and sounds like just what I need these days.

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Random Thoughts on Lean Principles

July 26, 2006

Last night I finally received my copy of Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit for Software Development Managers by Mary and Tom Poppendieck. I’ve actually had quite a few books on order and as they’ve been coming I’ve hoped that they were this one. Finally it got here.
I started getting really [...]

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