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24 Jun, 2009

Respect @ Flickr

Posted by: j pimmel In: agile|development|lean|ops

There isn’t much more to say than Flickr, ur doin it right! Respect.. The way that metrics are being used for the continual feedback and ongoing health and monitoring of system and features is very Lean and not something I get to see too often. 10+ Deploys Per Day: Dev and Ops Cooperation at Flickr [...]

Eric Ries, formerly the co-founder CTO of  IMVU, is running a special Agile Vancouver workshop on the Lean Startup which he promises will involve more than just the usual slideshow and Q & A. Whats makes Eric and the IMVU story so interesting (certainly to me) is that they are unique in having developed their business [...]

22 Jan, 2009

Morning market..

Posted by: j pimmel In: agile|lean

Whilst this article is clearly specific to Lean in manufacturing processes what I find pleasing is how fundamentally similar a ‘Morning Market’ is to the morning Scrum in software development. Its a short morning meeting It’s not a forum to attempt to solve problems or to discuss them in detail, but a place to surface [...]


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