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Off topic moan - Price Promise that isn't
Or I could justify it as an example of poor system thinking, but I think it is really a moan. m not as bright as I like to think I am, for once I believed what the corporation told me despite my natural cynicism. It wasn’t indeed it was more expensive, but since I was now logged into the BA system and all my details were on file I decided to finish the booking there. Although I try to keep this blog within its very loose boundary of software and business there are times when you want to say something that doesn’t fit. It also shows how I was fooled. Wrong.
Allan Kelly's Blog
- Tuesday, August 10, 2010
The train metaphor of software development
Think of our requirements document.) We all know the train is overloaded, we all know its going to arrive late, we even think it might miss the destination and arrive someplace else. Instead of big trains we have a metro system - think of London tube, or better still Glasgow’s Clockwork Orange. We need software development to be like the metro/tube system and not like the big occasional train I’m sitting on a train from York so it seems a good time to share my train-leaving-the-station metaphor with the world. But nobody wants to admit this. We begin again.
Allan Kelly's Blog
- Wednesday, July 28, 2010
How do you make Lean Practical ?
Nor do I think I’m unusual in having this problem. Next: you can’t have a Lean course without talking about Toyota, some of the things they do and some of the thinking behind the Lean approach. However, the objective here needs to be change the way people think about product development; or at least show that other approaches are possible. The thing about Lean is that its not so much a toolkit of solutions (like Agile) but a systems thinking model to help you devise your own solutions and tools to tackle your own problems. But, there is a but. So what do I do?
Allan Kelly's Blog
- Thursday, May 13, 2010
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Systems Thinking: Requirements?
The definition seems to depend on what role you play in relationship to requirements definition – Customer, Business Analyst, Systems Analyst, Designer, Architect, [.]. Tags: Systems Development Requirements Systems So how do you define requirement? was working with a large hospitality corporation when I was asked this question. The problem is that the notion of requirement comes in many forms.
Jim Schardt's Blog
- Tuesday, January 6, 2009
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Avoiding Requirements Confusion with Black Boxes
By clearly understanding the boundary of your system you can easily distinguish between requirement and design statements. Tags: Software Development Black Box Requirements Systems Thinking
Jim Schardt's Blog
- Monday, January 19, 2009
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Basic In and Out of Black Boxes
Once the boundaries for your system / software / business unit are defined as a black box, do not worry about what is inside the box. Tags: Systems Development Black Box Requirements Systems Thinking Focus on what goes in, what comes out, when this happens, and rules the box must follow. So just what can go into our come out of this box? [.].
Jim Schardt's Blog
- Thursday, March 19, 2009
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Requirements and Black Boxes
For requirements, I think of any system as if it were a black box. Tags: Systems Development Black Box Requirements Systems Thinking After dealing with requirements in all sorts of shapes and sizes over the years I find the “black box&# approach works well. can “see” or experience the outside of the box. can experience the contours of the box. can [.].
Jim Schardt's Blog
- Monday, January 12, 2009
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Agile and Lean - the same but different
Perhaps someone else who was in the room can help me with the exact quotes but this is how I remember him putting it: • When Dan, Jim Womack and Daniel Roos wrote did the research that resulted in The Machine that Changed the World they had to think of a term to describe what they found. Toyota Production System was too Toyota specific. That said I think there is a subtle distinction, its actually a distinction that can be helpful on some context. Agile is more general, Agile is more of a value system, a philosophy. And in his view there is no difference.
Allan Kelly's Blog
- Thursday, February 12, 2009
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A tale of two conferences (Lean & BA)
His alternative is systems thinking. Personally I think the two approaches are complementary. am always keen to relate Agile and Lean back or organizational learning, and I believe that system thinking is an essential element of such learning. John introduced me to a new term: “Failure demand” - that is the demand created on a organization or system because of earlier failure. I spent the first part of the week attending the UK Lean conference swiftly followed by the IRM BA conference. Heres a rough cut at some thoughts from the two conferences.
Allan Kelly's Blog
- Sunday, October 4, 2009
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Book review: Learning for Action (SSM)
The book is an introduction to Soft Systems Methodology, or SSM for short. think I made the right choice by starting with this SSM book rather than any other. First I’ve been talking about “Systems thinking” with some people and was wondering “How do you do it?” SSM is itself a form of systems thinking. think this is because SSM is very self-aware and the authors know the dangers of Methodology. I’ve just finished reading Learning for Action by Peter Checkland and John Poulter (2006). So, why did I read it?
Allan Kelly's Blog
- Wednesday, October 18, 2006
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