Management

How much process does a software project need? It turns out that may be the optimal degree of formalization is not a constant. The development process has to grow with his result. Read…

Is it possible to be agile in a complex, real-time, embedded environment? How does it jive with the heavily regulated, ISO 15504/CMMI, product safety-oriented processes increasingly demanded by the OEMs? In my presentation at the embedded world conference in February 2012, I have argued that the difference between ‘agile’ and ‘rational, controlled’ project organizations is in fact an age-old misunderstanding in terms. Read…

At first sight, the task appears easy: capture the business processes, visualize them in an easy-to-understand form, and use them as a basis for quality or efficiency improvement projects. This goal may seem trivial to Read…

“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.” – Albert Einstein Read…

“85% of the reasons for refusing to fulfil customer expectations you can trace back to failures of systems and processes, and less to people. The task of management is to change processes not the people.” (W.E. Deming) Read…

Recently, everybody seems to be talking about  “process improvement,” “process design,“ “process maturity, “ and so on. But what actually IS a process? Read…