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David Anderson blogs about paradigm shifts. I have to say that those five bullet points communicate quite effectively:

Flow through value chain, focus on throughput and effectiveness - as opposed to, cost and effort estimating and tracking, cost accounting, efficiency and earned value analysis
Theory of variation (common and special cause) and buffering - as opposed to, deterministic scheduling and Gantt charts and deviation from plan
Synthesis and systems thinking - as opposed to, Cartesian decomposition, (bottom up rather than top down)
Process control and continuous improvement - as opposed to, conformance to plan and specification
Empowerment and service - as opposed to, command and control

Keith Ray is not far from the topic either with his short report of a visit to Toyota's NUMMI facility. Can you imagine working in 83-second iterations? Maybe not, assuming you're in software development. But what if it was 83-second test-code cycles?

TrackBacks[0] Comments[1] Posted by lasse on March 30, 2005 5:30:11 PM EEST

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Whew, I don't know if I can do it in 83 seconds. :)

Comment from Darrell on March 30, 2005 8:55:42 PM EEST

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