Nudge-ocracy

Posted on July 4, 2009 by Chris Heisel
  • Nudge-ocracy – How the Obama administration is trying to use behavioral economics to nudge society/markets into socially beneficial behavior while trying to strike a balance between laissez-faire and bureaucracy.
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A wealth of knowledge on kanban

Posted on June 28, 2009 by Chris Heisel
  • A wealth of knowledge on kanban – From the Lean and Kanban blog comes a very long, but information rich, presentation on the kanban principles, differentiation from scrum, and a lot of good practical examples.
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ongoing · Test-Driven Heresy

Posted on June 24, 2009 by Chris Heisel
  • ongoing · Test-Driven Heresy – I'm normally a "you must absolutely write your tests first" guy, but I can see the argument that on a new project/component you may be more efficient scratching around and then writing tests. But whatever you do, by god, write tests before the code goes into production.
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Boeing and Dreamliner Troubles – Print – Portfolio.com

Posted on June 21, 2009 by Chris Heisel
  • Boeing and Dreamliner Troubles – Print – Portfolio.com – An interesting tale: a lean practitioner had shepherded the 777 through Boeing. But management changes and a focus on cost cutting drove him out and it sounds like the 787 is in trouble. Even more interesting, the practitioner left Boeing for Ford, and his lean changes there allowed them to forgo bailout funds. Since McDonnel-Douglas was my hometime aerospace company I feel bad that they "infected" Boeing…
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Adding value in the new news ecosystem « BuzzMachine

Posted on June 21, 2009 by Chris Heisel
  • Adding value in the new news ecosystem « BuzzMachine – "So I imagine a news organization creating a kind of anti-wiki – a dynamic, collaborative Snopes: a list of what we don’t know so we can see what is unconfirmed and so these things can be confirmed – so journalists can add journalism." That rings true with a description of journalism I heard at Georgia Tech's Computational Journalism conference: "Journalism is the science of verification…"
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