My weekend was a curious mix of thinking about how we improve as a business and listening to Bob Dylan – in part triggered by the fantastic season of films and documentaries on BBC4 at the minute. While I’m sure that Bob wasn’t talking about lean development when he wrote it, some lyrics from Idiot [...]

3M is widely regarded as one of the most innovative companies – massively diversified and very product oriented. While re-reading Lean Software Development this weekend, I found these sayings from an early leader of 3M, William McKnight: “Hire good people, and leave them alone.” “If you put fences around people, you get sheep. Give people [...]

Last Christmas the wife and I bustled our way around several department stores looking for a washing machine. Eventually, we bought one. I remember that we chose the one we thought we wanted and found a salesman who said something along the lines of: “A great choice, sir. I have one myself”. Now, maybe he [...]

Cal Henderson of Flickr: On a good day, we release a new version every half-an-hour. And I thought we had it beat with our once-a-day-releases… We’re getting there at Revieworld, with releases every day. I’m most proud though that we could release every half-an-hour if we wanted to – continuous integration ensuring that checked-in code [...]