Hello my friends! Seven-and-a-half years ago I started writing my business novel Rolling Rocks Downhill - think "The Goal" but set in software development. ...
I have a spreadsheet that has prioritization of activities for each resource (by month). For example, for a team member named John, the allocations are as...
Hi All, Thanks for allowing me to participating in this group. One of the first things , I wanted to check out is Good Resources about Critical chain . Please...
Hello all, For those interested, Mark Graban will have available, for a limited time, this free SPC webinar. It is 1 hour, I attended and it was nice. ...
Can you take a look at the Wikipedia entry on Contribution Margin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contribution_margin#Examples, then tell me if this sentence...
I need a favour, but I feel a little awkward asking ... so I've explained why below and I'm only asking people who read my blog and who subscribe to this...
Hello all, This is not a strictly TOC related question, so I apologize beforehand: wanted to tap into "the wisdom of crowds" of these lists. Does anybody ...
I've just discovered Amazon have implemented a new feature which means that 5 days every quarter I can make my Kindle eBooks available for free. So ... if...
Dear Members The CriticalChain Group in LinkedIn is nearing a 1000 members which has been built up painstakingly and is actively discussing the tenets of...
hello, as a software developer, i appreciate the idea of not multitasking so i can focus on getting a single problem done at a time. on the other hand, i also...
Let me illustrate a vignette of the prevailing bureaucracy in my team. In my project, I need the blessing of an Architecture Review Board (ARB) in order to...
Just to rile Tony... https://www.cassknowledge.com/research/article/case-multitasking *"We found that the financial performance of companies with highly ...
Hey gang. I just picked up Jim Benson's short book "Why Plans Fail" which talks about cognitive biases (Kahneman and Tversky). It's a fun read and a quick...
Hi All, This is the season for gifts. If anybody is interested in doing Monte Carlo simulation of a project with at most 100 tasks, I can freely offer a simple...
In yesterday's Sunday Times (22 Jan), an article by Margarette Driscoll discussed a new book by Susan Cain, called 'Quiet: the Power of Introverts in a world...
Hello to all, A friend of mine recommended Rowan Gibson's work on Innovation. Has anybody read his book? Any comments about it? Thanks and take care. ...
I read this post recently on the Joel on Software blog: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2012/01/06.html His Trello software looks interesting, to plan...
As the day comes to an end, I thought I would share with you a very special event that occurred on another Christmas day many years ago. I hope I can put it...
Hi, From time to time Standish Committee publishes a report on IT projects called Chaos. Can anybody share the recent numbers published? Regards, Rajeev...
Great link http://www.forbes.com/sites/bruceupbin/2011/12/13/five-new-management-metrics-you-need-to-know/ bhavin [Non-text portions of this message have been...
Hey gang- Santiago Martinez and I are having dinner tonight. What questions should I pepper him with? :-) Jack Vinson [Non-text portions of this message have...
I recently read Bill Dettmer's article about about Cynefin and Continuous improvement approaches, and as usual with his writings, it was very good. The big...
Yuval Yeret comments about the "synergies" between Kanban, Agile and CCPM. Interesting read. http://bit.ly/tzXyxY [Non-text portions of this message have been...
