Workflow is Orthogonal to Schedule
Sun, 2009-01-25 23:30 — Mary Poppendieck
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Level: Practicing
Scheduling should be done independent of and orthogonal to workflow. In fact, you don’t have to create a schedule for a flow system. It will flow all by itself, and work will flow much faster and much more reliably than it could possibly follow a schedule. But take a closer look at that workflow: Just when you thought it was obsolete, the V model reappears. This talk will step through systems design, approval processes, and scheduling, development workflow, depolyment, from a completely different angle.
Process/Mechanics
Talk with questions encouraged.
Learning outcomes
- General understanding of flow in a development world.
- Why you need to ‘make work ready’ as part of the flow.
- How Kanban and Iterations work, how they are alike, and how they differ.
- Driving priorities from measurable system goals.
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