Mary and Tom Poppendieck, the author of Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit for Software Development Managers (Paperback), which won the
The Stand-Up Meeting, a Lean-to-Agile Lexicon
Agile and its many flavors take many of their tenets from The Toyota Production System. At Toyota, there is a concept of Obeya, or "The Big Room."
The Bullwhip Effect and the Beer Distribution Game
Yesterday for class, we played the Beer Distribution Game, which is a game developed by the Systems Dynamic Group at MIT back in the early 1960's.
Amazon Packages Shipped Per Day
Peak Season at Amazon is crazy, fun, and exciting. That is a time when "all hands on deck" really comes into play and everybody is pitching in to
Book Review: Venture Capital and Private Equity a Casebook
I just finished two books on Venture Capital and Private Equity. The first one is Buyout: The Insider's Guide to Buying Your Own Company and the
Disambiguating Google
In graduate school, I did a research project in industrial linguistics. My project was to tackle the word-sense disambiguation problem. Basically,
Digg as a Game: Applying Game Theory to Digg and Voting Systems
Update: This article was dugg and made it to the Digg front page. The traffic came and I discuss the aftermath here. Go here For a Primer of Majority
Krispy Kreme Process and Aspects of Lean
The red light flashing at Krispy Kreme is a good sign for our family: it means free, heart-stopping, artery-clogging, but tasty glazed donuts. On July
The Pareto Principle
The Pareto Principle was named after an Italian economist who discovered that 80% of the wealth in Europe was concentrated in 20% of the population.