PODCASTS

I will soon be venturing into creating some Podcasts - when I get the time and the inclination Gear is in house - and for those that are interested in kit,  it includes an Edirol 16ch Digital Mixer, a Shure SM7B Microphone with Adobe Audition as the recording software on Windows Vista. The quality of the recording is excellent…the content…well I’ll let you be the judge!

Enough! A very interesting source of Podcasts on Agile entitled - Agile Toolkit Podcast can be found here: http://agiletoolkit.libsyn.com/ - it is well worth a listen - it discusses Agile in the wider sense.  

The lights might come on with respect to Agile if you listen to this

 

 

Theory of Constraints - ‘Viable Vision’

There was a time when I believed that Agile was restricted to Agile Methodologies and frameworks. However the light ‘came on’ several years ago when I overheard a conversation on Lean Production in the manufacturing industry. For ages I figured that the best development team in the world could be let down badly if they could not get their code into Production - and so Agile had to encompass a wider remit than merely the use of a methodology in one part of the software delivery chain. This then led me into Critical Chain Analysis and the Theory of Constraints. I came across a guy called Eli Goldratt, and it was like a whole bunch of lights came on. Throw in some Total Quality Management and Behavoural Psychology and you are almost there on what it means to be agile!

The point is this, Agile Software Management covers the end to end process from initial idea concept to delivery into production. It is concerned with ensuring that business value (via production of the software that the business requires) hits production as efficiently as possible with minimum inventory in the system.

Treating one element of the delivery chain in isolation will not make a company more agile. The whole end to end process needs to be checked for constraints and bottlenecks, and they need to be treated immediately. Productivity wil flow very quickly afterwards.

You can find more about Eli Goldratt here www.goldratt.com

Watch the video and think big or Read the book and think bigger

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