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The final sustainable edge
The authors advocate the creation of “process networks” and “process orchestrators.” (Curiously, the word “orchestrator” is used a lot but doesn’t appear in the index, this makes me wonder if the book was rushed, or maybe is was just poor indexer.) In a process network a variety of different companies come together to produce a product. I’ve finished reading “The Only Sustainable Edge” by Johns Hagel and Seely Brown . At the risk of boring my readers with a third entry on the subject of this book I think it deserves a wrap up - and a slight correction to some of my initial
Allan Kelly's Blog
- Sunday, September 4, 2005
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Christmas reading: Classic essays on software development
The ones about project management take up a bit less space but they are still plentiful, and the ones about people in the process take up even less space but are longer lasting. It is the later category that interests me most theses days. A Rational Development Process and How to Fake It by Dave Parnas. In this paper Parnas There are many, many books about software development. The technical ones alone (e.g.
Allan Kelly's Blog
- Saturday, December 22, 2007
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Confirmation bias
Confirmation bias means that we human’s aren’t a rational and neutral as we like to think we are. However they are useful, they serve as short cuts which enable us to process information faster. Couple more thoughts I picked up last week... I finally found out the name of something I’ve know about for a while: Confirmation bias .
Allan Kelly's Blog
- Tuesday, July 1, 2008
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Fixing Health Care
Health care rationing already happens now, and it will increase in the future. Make FDA approval process much faster and cheaper.
The hysterical screaming over health care has reached outlandish new lows. One thing I’ve learned is that policy debates are exactly like political debates: misinformation, exaggeration, outright lies, and bitter hatred for the opposition.
Handwaving
- Tuesday, October 13, 2009
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Lean Question and Answer
This means you can't engage in Systems Thinking properly and are likely to come up with sub-optimal processes. 11. How difficult is for a team become Agile and Lean after being non-Agile? Very difficult. Is the team changing their process? The practices support learning and change but change is not a rational thing. A student at Fullerton University in California e-mailed a lot of people on the Lean Software Development mailing list with some questions for his masters thesis. Since I had a little time on my hands I wrote him some lengthy answers.
Allan Kelly's Blog
- Wednesday, March 14, 2007
