Video: The role of leadership in software development - Mary Poppendieck

June 29th, 2019

 

[ ] Book: The Leader's Handbook - Peter Scholtes

[ ] Book: The Principles of Scientific Management - Frederick Taylor

[ ] Book: The Instructor, The Man, And The Job - Charles Allen

[ ] Book: German Army Field Manual 1933/1934

[ ] Topic: Training within Industry (TWI)

Statistical Process Control (SPC) - Deming

[ ] Book: Toyota Production System - Taiichi Ohno

[ ] Book: Workplace Management - Taiichi Ohno

[ ] Book: Managing the Unexpected - Karl Weick and Kathleen Sutcliffe

[ ] Book: Misson Command: Command and Control of Army Forces

[ ] Book: Maverick - Ricardo Semler

[ ] Book: The Seven-Day Weekend - Ricardo Semler

 


 

before this, no big companies

transport became available

incident: train wreck

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hierarchy & assigning blame

 

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[ ] The Leader's Handbook - Peter Scholtes (1998)

if you wanna read more interesting things about leadership

 

 

Army, guns came available

General could no longer stand on a hill and direct a battle

Distrances

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"ppl are stupid and lazy"

[ ] Book: The Principles of Scientific Management - Frederick Taylor

 

 

Model: train the trainer

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how do we train the masters to train people

[ ] Book: The Instructor The Man And The Job - Charles Allen

 

 

 

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everyone needs to be able to think for themselves

[ ] Book: German Army Field Manual 1933/1934

 

 

 

Training within Industry (TWI)

aka on the job training

Statistical Process Control (SPC)

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first line supervisors - how to train & how to improve

Deming

 

-> (Germany and) especially Japan

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TWI -> very well received, especially 'Job Instruction'

"if the learner has not learned, the teacher has not taught"

 

Deming - not just process, but entire System

 

 

 

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PERT -> "facade to keep the congress away"

 

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[ ] Book: The Toyota Production System - Tajichi Ohno

[ ] Book: Workplace Management - Tajichi Ohno

 

 

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"if your standard is too good, nobody will want to kaizen"

 

 

Model: Theory X vs Theory Z

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[ ] Book: What is Total Quality Control - Kaoru Ishikawa

 

 

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the entire company was involved

details were figured out by the ppl on the floor

 

 

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Anecdote

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Model: Mindful Organisation

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[ ] Book: Managing the Unexpected: Assuring High Performance in an Age of Complexity - Weick and Sutcliffe

 

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Model: Mission Command vs Detailed Command

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[ ] Book: Misson Command: Command and Control of Army Forces

 

 

Model: Product vs Technical leadership

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aka Product Champion

develops the high level system design -> 95% of the time a highly skilled tech person

available technology + market need

 

Model: Product VS Technical experise

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Model: Cathedral builders

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[ ] Book: Maverick - Ricardo Semler

[ ] Book: The Seven-Day Weekend - Ricardo Semler

 

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Quote: Annoyed workers

When workers are annoyed by their job:

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This concept that relentless improvement means

the structures are in place

the management is in place

encouragement is in place

the leadership is in place

so that when people are annoyed by something in their job,

their boss's job is to help them fix it,

not live with it,

not 'well, sorry that's regulations'

but 'okay, how about we figure out what the real problem is, maybe that's not the problem let's get at the root cause'

'how about you come up with an idea about what might make it better'

'Maybe we could do some experiments to figure out whether or not that really makes it better'

that's the job of a manager in an organisation that has Cathedral builders,

and really can do constant improvement all the time for decades on end

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The role of leadership in software development

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypEMdjslEOI

GoogleTechTalks

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Published on Jun 19, 2008

 

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Google Tech Talks May 6, 2008 ABSTRACT When you look around, there are a lot of leaders recommended for software development. We have the functional manager and the project manager, the scrum master and the black belt, the product owner and the customer-on-site, the technical leader and the architect, the product manager and the chief engineer. Clearly that's too many leaders. So how many leaders should there be, what should they do, what shouldn't they do, and what skills do they need? This will be a presentation and discussion of leadership roles in software development -- what works, what doesn't and why. Speaker: Mary Poppendieck Mary Poppendieck started her career as a process control programmer, moved on to manage the IT department of a manufacturing plant, and then ended up in product development, where she was both a product champion and department manager. Mary considered retirement 1998, but instead found herself managing a government software project where she first encountered the word "waterfall." When Mary compared her experience in successful software and product development to the prevailing opinions about how to manage software projects, she decided the time had come for a new paradigm. She wrote the award-winning book Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit in 2003 to explain how the lean principles from manufacturing offer a better approach to software development. Over the past six years, Mary has found retirement elusive as she lectures and teaches classes with her husband Tom. Based on their on-going learning, they wrote a second book, Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash in 2006. A popular writer and speaker, Mary continues to bring fresh perspectives to the world of software development. Speaker: Tom Poppendieck Tom Poppendieck has 25 years of experience in computing including eight years of work with object technology. His modeling and mentoring skills are rooted in his experience as a physics professor. His early work was in IT infrastructure, product development, and manufacturing support, and evolved to consulting project assignments in healthcare, logistics, mortgage banking, and travel services. Tom led the development of a world-class product data management practice for a major commercial avionics manufacturer that reduced design to production transition efforts from 6 months to 6 weeks. He also led the technical architecture team for very large national and international Baan and SAP implementations. Tom Poppendieck is an enterprise analyst and architect, and an agile process mentor. He focuses on identifying real business value and enabling product teams to realize that value. Tom specializes in understanding customer processes and in effective collaboration of customer, development and support specialists to maximize development efficiency, system flexibility, and business value. Tom is co-author of the book Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit, published in 2003, and its sequel, Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash, published in 2006.