Comments on: Lean: Big Picture over Local Optimisations http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/2009/04/14/lean-big-picture-over-local-optimisations/ Thoughts on Software Development Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:17:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: The supposed black box | The Agile Radar http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/2009/04/14/lean-big-picture-over-local-optimisations/comment-page-1/#comment-126062 The supposed black box | The Agile Radar Wed, 21 Dec 2011 08:19:07 +0000 http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/?p=1128#comment-126062 [...] On a project I worked on a few years ago the reason for the black box thinking was that each layer was being developed by people from a different company. [...] [...] On a project I worked on a few years ago the reason for the black box thinking was that each layer was being developed by people from a different company. [...]

]]> By: The supposed black box at Mark Needham http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/2009/04/14/lean-big-picture-over-local-optimisations/comment-page-1/#comment-126057 The supposed black box at Mark Needham Tue, 20 Dec 2011 23:58:17 +0000 http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/?p=1128#comment-126057 [...] On a project I worked on a few years ago the reason for the black box thinking was that each layer was being developed by people from a different company. [...] [...] On a project I worked on a few years ago the reason for the black box thinking was that each layer was being developed by people from a different company. [...]

]]> By: Our obsession with efficiency – Dan North at Mark Needham http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/2009/04/14/lean-big-picture-over-local-optimisations/comment-page-1/#comment-27860 Our obsession with efficiency – Dan North at Mark Needham Mon, 07 Dec 2009 07:06:41 +0000 http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/?p=1128#comment-27860 [...] lean terms we want to look to favour the big picture over local optimisations whereby we start to measure our effectiveness rather than efficiency. i.e. we focus on the results [...] [...] lean terms we want to look to favour the big picture over local optimisations whereby we start to measure our effectiveness rather than efficiency. i.e. we focus on the results [...]

]]> By: Brian Marick http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/2009/04/14/lean-big-picture-over-local-optimisations/comment-page-1/#comment-15076 Brian Marick Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:02:20 +0000 http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/?p=1128#comment-15076 Interesting. In some ways this goes against the grain of agile. Think, for example, of the ideal of "evolving" a design by solving local problems, doing just enough to implement the next story - with the expectation that what looks like a predesigned infrastructure will "emerge". Also reminded of what Jeff Patton talks about: how to do just enough big picture planning (with what he used to call span planning and I think now calls story maps) while still adhering to the general style of Agile. I think one of the big tricks to Agile - not talked about much - is how you simultaneously work on the next thing (solve the next problem) while always being sensitive to how a number of big pictures are shaping up. How you make a series of local optimizations as-if-by-magic also, over time, build up to a global optimization? Interesting. In some ways this goes against the grain of agile. Think, for example, of the ideal of “evolving” a design by solving local problems, doing just enough to implement the next story – with the expectation that what looks like a predesigned infrastructure will “emerge”.

Also reminded of what Jeff Patton talks about: how to do just enough big picture planning (with what he used to call span planning and I think now calls story maps) while still adhering to the general style of Agile.

I think one of the big tricks to Agile – not talked about much – is how you simultaneously work on the next thing (solve the next problem) while always being sensitive to how a number of big pictures are shaping up. How you make a series of local optimizations as-if-by-magic also, over time, build up to a global optimization?

]]> By: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: Book Review at Mark Needham http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/2009/04/14/lean-big-picture-over-local-optimisations/comment-page-1/#comment-15026 The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: Book Review at Mark Needham Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:52:55 +0000 http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/?p=1128#comment-15026 [...] rather than what they really think'. This idea also seems similar to the idea in lean thinking of favouring the big picture over local optimisations - the team as a whole succeeding is more important than any individual [...] [...] rather than what they really think’. This idea also seems similar to the idea in lean thinking of favouring the big picture over local optimisations – the team as a whole succeeding is more important than any individual [...]

]]> By: DotNetShoutout http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/2009/04/14/lean-big-picture-over-local-optimisations/comment-page-1/#comment-14479 DotNetShoutout Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:49:00 +0000 http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/?p=1128#comment-14479 <strong>Lean: Big Picture over Local Optimisations - Mark Needham...</strong> Thank you for submitting this cool story - Trackback from DotNetShoutout... Lean: Big Picture over Local Optimisations – Mark Needham…

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]]> By: Are we walking the Agile talk? « Dahlia Bock http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/2009/04/14/lean-big-picture-over-local-optimisations/comment-page-1/#comment-14451 Are we walking the Agile talk? « Dahlia Bock Tue, 14 Apr 2009 13:11:40 +0000 http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/?p=1128#comment-14451 [...] hot off the press, my colleague Mark’s views on Lean and organizing teams for better [...] [...] hot off the press, my colleague Mark’s views on Lean and organizing teams for better [...]

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