In my first two installments of this series, I talked about: Eliminating Waste Dodging as much work as possible. These first two guidelines are very important. The first drives efficiency, and the second drives effectiveness. Even doing these first two well can leave a team spinning its wheels, however...

This is a follow on to part 1 of this series. I'm talking about how to produce software quickly. To be clear, I'm not talking about producing brittle software quickly. Software is too expensive to be built cheaply. This mantra is a good tagline, but it is so true. The software I'm asked to...

This is harder than it sounds. I'm thinking about this topic because I'm the manager of a software product team. I'm responsible for the product's health and speedy delivery. Because of that, I need to steer the team in the direction with the shortest path to the finish line. Some of the things I'm focusing...