If Tech Companies Made Sudoku
Posted on June 9, 2006 Comments (5)
Topic: Management Improvement
A fun post as we head into the weekend: If Tech Companies Made Sudoku by Kathy Sierra
Frankly, we’re a little baffled that your original design was so… simple. I’m sure we all recognize that our target market demands a much more media-rich, interactive, high-action experience. Love the whole grid thing, though.
The graphic on the original post is great. You can also read about an attempt to focus IT differently: The Declaration of Interdependance by Alistair Cockburn:
Lean manufacturing teaches us that having large inventories is inefficient. It also teaches us that the overall efficiency of a process improves as the batch size passed from stage to stage is reduced. Today this has become accepted in most (but not all) manufacturing circles, yet many people may be surprised that it also applies to software development.
- articles on management improvement software development topics: lean programming, agile management…
- Management Science for Software Engineering
- Innovation in the Software Development Process
- Using Quality to Develop an Internet Resource (acrobat format) by John Hunter
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June 27th, 2006 @ 7:26 am
[...] Working in Information Technology myself I see many great uses for IT. I also see all sorts of poor attempts to try creating IT tool for quality (including lean) tools that work much better in there original state. I can also see why people make fun of IT: If Tech Companies Made Sudoku. [...]
August 31st, 2006 @ 7:02 pm
Lean and other management improvement folks can learn a lot about eliminate non-value added steps, clean design, simplifying systems to improve performance… from this blog…
April 4th, 2007 @ 12:12 pm
The basic idea: reduce the planning phase and increase the iterations (similar to turning the PDSA cycle quickly) and interaction with users. The application of agile methods does require some different thinking..
March 10th, 2008 @ 8:55 am
The power of simplicity is often overlooked in stated preferences but we believe when given a choice a significant portion of users prefer (actually would use if given the option) “less is more” options…
August 26th, 2009 @ 5:08 pm
The challenge was to build the robot using only the Lego Mindstorms NXT Retail-kit. And to make it completely independent, without need of being connected to a PC…