December 2008
Intermediate to advanced
368 pages
8h 23m
English
I took a speed reading course and read “War and Peace” in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
Woody Allen
Chapter
• Example: The “Faster is Slower” Dynamic 26
• Seeing (and Hearing) Local Optimization 32
“No matter what we do, the number of defects in our backlog remains about the same,” a manager told us; this for a 15 MSLOC C and C++ product with several hundred developers where we were working (and adopting lean principles). What’s going on? Systems thinking may help. In small groups the forces at play are more quickly seen and informally understood, but in large product development—or any large system—it’s tough. Gerry Weinberg highlights ...