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"Why is this not what we asked for?

This is what you asked for.

No it's not.

Yes it is!

No it's not!

Look at your documentation it's just like you asked for it!

I never signed this document!"



How many of us have had discussions like this in our organization? How did documentation become the insurance policy between the business and IT?  Why is it that a signature on requirements documents are never completed until the last minute in the project?  Of course we… Continue

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Lean process has an exceptional focus on providing value to the customer. Always when an action is considered we ask ourselves "Would the customer be willing to pay for this?" I've often seen when groups are considering an agile transformation they are focusing on faster iterations, but faster iterations of what? An agile team can certainly deliver faster iterations of what the customer doesn't want. Often many poorly run teams do exactly this. For this blog post I would like to consider three… Continue

When Edward Deming, the Grandfather of Quality, taught his methods to the Japanese in the 1950's, he was working with a group that had historically been known for poor quality. Invited by the Japanese Union of Scientists and Engineers to assist Japan in their post-war reconstruction efforts, Deming taught Japanese management, scholars and engineers to focus on quality in order to produce world-class results and become competitive in world…

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