Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Film Loop on Lean principles



These slides are created by using FilmLoop and is based on Mary Poppendieck Slides on Lean Software Development. If you install the FilmLoop player, you can turn these pictures into a screen saver.

Mehrdad Rashidfarruhi

Estimate-risk spreadsheet

I stumble upon a wonderful tool created by Robin probably a long time ago. (http://www.agilemetrics.com/tools/estimates-risk.html).

You’ll see a spreadsheet captures the Stories (Requirements) in a visual and easily risk ranked way. “One of the nice things it does is provide a framework for quickly capturing subjective customer (business) perception of the stability/completeness of their requirements. It then uses this to give a graphical representation of the Estimates/Risk of the project.”

Number of conversations inversely proportional to the likelihood of having trust.

Extraordinary how much organization talk about culture change and trust

Rule of Thumb is that number of conversations inversely proportional to the likelihood of having trust. More people and management talk about trust – more it is lacking.

Sunday, September 10, 2006

Add meaning to a search

What is a Lens?

Seth defines lens as:

"A lens is one person's view on a topic that matters to her. It's an easy-to-build, single web page that can point to blogs, favorite links, RSS feeds, Flickr photos, Google maps, eBay auctions, CafePress designs, Amazon books or music, and thousands of products from hundreds of other trusted merchants. You can pick whatever content you want to put in your lens to bring context to your topic. Then, when someone is looking for recommended information, fast, your lens gets him started and sends him off in the right direction. It's a place to start, not finish. "

I have created two Lenses:

http://www.squidoo.com/lean/

and

http://www.squidoo.com/testfirst/