SPaMCAST 608 - An Agile Team in a Waterfall Company, Expert Bias - Essays And Conversations - a podcast by Thomas M. Cagley Jr

The Software Process and Measurement Cast 608 features our essay, An Agile Team in a Waterfall Company. Teams like this exist, and sometimes even flourish. Our essay explores how that is possible and how teams in this circumstance can help evolve whole organizations.

We have a visit from Gene Hughson with his Form Follows Function column. Gene and I talk about how an architect has to avoid bias generated by the expertise that they have spent years developing.   

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This week we tackle Chapter 5 (this is the beginning of Part 2) of Tame your Work Flow,  The chapter is titled “Where to Focus Improvement Efforts.” Part 2 transitions us from improving wait time and flow efficiency and begins a deep dive into the Theory of Constraints (ToC).

Remember to buy a copy of Tame your Work Flow to support the authors and blog!  

 

Week 1: Logistics and Front Matter - https://bit.ly/2LWJ3EY

Week 2: Prologue (The Story of Herbie) - https://bit.ly/3h4zmTi

Week 3: Explicit Mental Models - https://bit.ly/2UJUZyN 

Week 4: Flow Efficiency, Little’s Law and Economic Impact - https://bit.ly/2VrIhoL 

Week 5: Flawed Mental Models - https://bit.ly/3eqj70m  

Week 6: Where To Focus Improvement Efforts - https://bit.ly/2DTvOUN 

Next SPaMCAST

The Software Process and Measurement Cast 609 will feature the return of Dr. David Rico. Dave and I discussed contracting and agile. This a crucial real-world topic that is often swept under the carpet and politely ignored. That won’t happen in the SPaMCAST 609.

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