http://www.richarddurnall.com Agile & Lean Software Development by Richard Durnall Sun, 01 Aug 2010 04:36:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en At last years Agile Australia conference, an Australian branch of the Agile Alliance was proposed and created. Local branch meetings of the Agile Alliance Australia (AAA*) have been organised over the next few weeks. If you'd like to attend (all are welcome) you'll need to register at the respective meetup ... http://www.richarddurnall.com/?p=81 Dzone just published my Lean article 'We're not Japanese and we don't build cars'. Please take a look and give me your comments. Have a great Christmas and New Year everyone!.... http://www.richarddurnall.com/?p=80 I'm in Aarhus, Denmark at the moment for this years JAOO conference. I got here on Tuesday after 36 hours travel from Melbourne. Urgh. The conference has been great; there are some amazing speakers here (Mary Poppendieck, Dave Thomas, Michael Feathers, Linda Rising, Martin Fowler, Bob Martin) and the whole ... http://www.richarddurnall.com/?p=79 Recently I've been doing a number of assignments that involve a significant amount of organisational design. I think that the conventional thinking in this space is completely broken and only a view that breaks the existing convention will help.The work I'm doing seems to start from this problem statement: "I'm ... http://www.richarddurnall.com/?p=77 Command and Control Management Managers create the system and set the targets for the workers. The initial focus of failure is on the people. Managers manage the people. Systems Management Theory Managers and the people in the process create the system and define the system performance measures. The initial focus of failure is ... http://www.richarddurnall.com/?p=75 I'm spending a lot of time at the moment working with governance groups, steering committee's and PMO's to introduce Lean ideas. There's a common challenge that I keep coming across. First up, size matters. I was going through the 2009 Standish CHAOS report today to gather some data for a ... http://www.richarddurnall.com/?p=74 I recently came across 'The Amazing Adventures of Kanban' at Gemba Panta Rei which put a smile on my face. It's a great post on the history of kanban. It made me think about when I first came across a kanban process in the manufacturing plants and has inspired me to ... http://www.richarddurnall.com/?p=73 I just made Jurgen Appelo's list of 'Top 200 Blogs for Developers'. I'm sneaking in there at number 198, apparently down from 150 when Jurgen last published the list. It's my own fault for not blogging for almost three months! There are some great blogs in the list that I'm already ... http://www.richarddurnall.com/?p=72 A few weeks ago I flew to Canada to deliver presentations in Calgary and Toronto. This time it was for joint presentations with Kraig Parkinson, who works out of our Canada office. The nice folk at InfoQ were at the Toronto presentation to record it. You'll find the video here: ... http://www.richarddurnall.com/?p=71 This post was inspired by a comment from Andy Marks in a joint presentation he delivered with Martin Fowler to an audience in Melbourne yesterday. The presentation was on how to fail with Agile. Andy asked the audience to put their hands in the air if they had ever read an ... http://www.richarddurnall.com/?p=70