Dec 11 – Standard work is not to sing to one, and only one tune

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LESS!

I’m happy to announce that the collection of business transformation essays called LESS!, that I co-authored, is now published.

It is free and you can get it here.

When you have read it, please write a review at GoodReads.

This is a book of twelve essays written by me and my co-authors who all work in the trenches, building business, coaching leaders and shaping the future. This book contains the following main topics:

• Beyond Budgeting–Changing the way the organization is managed from command and control to an empowered, adaptive and agile model
• Radical Management–Rethink the fundamental assumptions about management
• Strategic Navigation–Use OODA Loops and the ancient Chinese 36 Stratagems to outthink the competition
• Lean–Do more with LESS! resources
• Agile–working software, no pain
• Systems Thinking–An easier, better way to think about organizations
• Complexity Thinking–Radical insights about organizations and management coming from the complexity sciences

The title of my essay is “Standard work in Software development”. In this essay I explore the application of the Lean tool called Standard work in software development. You can find my blog posts on the subject here.

I want to give a special thank you to Henrik Mårtensson for his tireless efforts of editing and making the book ready for publishing. Thank you!

Also a thank you to Vasco Duarte and the LESS 2011 conference organizers of making this happen.

 

The LESS! authors

Foreword by John Hagel III – @jhagel 

Dan Bergh Johnsson – @danbjson

Bjarte Bogsnes – @bbogsnes

Peter Bunce

Steve Denning – @stevedenning

Ola Ellnestam – @ellnestam

Håkan Forss – @hakanforss

Brian Hawkes

Maarit Laanti

Henrik Mårtensson – @Kallokain

Karl Scotland – @kjscotland

Ari-Pekka Skarp – @apskarp

James Sutton – @LeanSE

Lean Enterprise Software and Systems 2011 presentation – Standard work in software development

A cornerstone for continuous improvement in Lean is standard work. Standard work is a description of how a process should operate. Without standard work it is much harder to know if process changes are improvements or not. Implementing standard work in a manufacturing process with repetitive task sounds reasonable but how do you implement standard work in something as variable as software development where there is basically no repletion of tasks? In this Lightning Talk you will be shown an example of how standard work was used in a software technology migration project. The intended audience is managers, team leaders and coaches working with process improvements.