http://management.curiouscatblog.net/2006/05/30/lean-software-development/ Management Improvement focused on Deming, lean thinking, innovation, customer focus, six sigma, etc. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:35:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://management.curiouscatblog.net/2006/05/30/lean-software-development/comment-page-1/#comment-41786 Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog » Assigning Story Points to Bug Fixes Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:29:51 +0000 http://management.curiouscatblog.net/?p=246#comment-41786 [...] Agile software development has teams estimate the effort to deliver requests from the product owner. The estimates are done in points (in order to abstract away from hours – as estimates have plenty of variation in how long they will really take). Then the teams capacity (velocity) is determined based on looking at how many points they complete in a “sprint” (a set length, often 2 weeks). Then the product owner can prioritize all of the requests with an understanding of how much effort each is estimated to take and the historical capacity of the development team. [...] [...] Agile software development has teams estimate the effort to deliver requests from the product owner. The estimates are done in points (in order to abstract away from hours – as estimates have plenty of variation in how long they will really take). Then the teams capacity (velocity) is determined based on looking at how many points they complete in a “sprint” (a set length, often 2 weeks). Then the product owner can prioritize all of the requests with an understanding of how much effort each is estimated to take and the historical capacity of the development team. [...]

]]> http://management.curiouscatblog.net/2006/05/30/lean-software-development/comment-page-1/#comment-35053 Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog » Toyota’s Journey to Lean Software Development Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:19:44 +0000 http://management.curiouscatblog.net/?p=246#comment-35053 "a Lexus contains 14 million lines of code, comparable to banking and airplane software systems. Ishi-san concluded that “Therefore Toyota needs to become an IT company..." “a Lexus contains 14 million lines of code, comparable to banking and airplane software systems. Ishi-san concluded that “Therefore Toyota needs to become an IT company…”

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