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January 8, 2007
Competing On The Basis Of Speed

Competing On The Basis Of Speed (webcast) by Mary Poppendieck discussing complexity, queuing theory, and constant innovation. Google posts presentations given at the Googleplex (including this one). In this one, Mary presents lean ideas as they related to software development.

Related: post on software development – lean software development – articles by the Poppendieck’s – Competing on the Basis of Time

One Response to “Competing On The Basis Of Speed”

  1. Lorenzo Says:
    August 7th, 2008 at 12:25 am

    Nice presentation by Mary Poppendieck. Where can I get a copy of the slide deck used in the presentation? Thanks :)

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