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Mary Poppendieck on The Role of Leadership in Software Development

Posted by Mary Poppendieck on Nov 27, 2007 07:39 AM

Community
Agile
Topics
Leadership,
Teamwork
Tags
Management,
Agile2007,
Toyota Production System,
Lean,
Value & Metrics
Summary
In this 90-minute talk from the Agile2007 conference, Lean software thought leader Mary Poppendieck reviewed 20th century management theories, including Toyota and Deming, and went on to talk about "the matrix problem", alignment, waste cutting, planning and standards. She closed by addressing the role of measurement: "cash flow thinking" over "balance sheet thinking".

Bio
Mary Poppendieck (poppendieck.com) teaches and consults worldwide on Lean principles for software. Her approach identifies real business value and enables product teams to realize that value.

About the conference
The Agile Alliance organizes an annual international Agile conference, which brings together the key people in the Agile space to talk about techniques and technologies, attitudes and policies, research and experience, and the management and development sides of Agile software development.

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It's would be nice to have it as mp3 file by Andrey Izmaylov Posted Nov 28, 2007 3:11 PM
Re: It's would be nice to have it as mp3 file by Floyd Marinescu Posted Nov 28, 2007 4:46 PM
Re: It's would be nice to have it as mp3 file by Niels Tindbæk Posted Dec 23, 2007 8:51 AM
Re: It's would be nice to have it as mp3 file by Floyd Marinescu Posted Jan 21, 2008 2:21 PM
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    It's would be nice to have it as mp3 file

    Nov 28, 2007 3:11 PM by Andrey Izmaylov

    It's would be nice to have it as mp3 file

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    Re: It's would be nice to have it as mp3 file

    Nov 28, 2007 4:46 PM by Floyd Marinescu

    Hi Andrey, we plan to do this soon, look out for it in January.

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    Re: It's would be nice to have it as mp3 file

    Dec 23, 2007 8:51 AM by Niels Tindbæk

    That sounds great - i'm really looking forward to being able to download the content.

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    Re: It's would be nice to have it as mp3 file

    Jan 21, 2008 2:21 PM by Floyd Marinescu

    Unfortunately this has been pushed back, instead we're gonna fix our videos in general by migrating to a new platform that will solve our runtime problems people have complained about.

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