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[Brian Fromme <brian.fromme@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ian,

Nice to meet you.  Thanks for your comments.  I have not yet read the Poppendiecks' book, but I'll be attending their training in January (thanks Joey and Francis!).  I'm glad you are also interested in this.  I think there are many aspects where a little good thinking can go a long way to helping us work in our distributed community.  I look forward to learning more about your ideas here.

 take care,
 Brian

On Sunday 22 November 2009 04:26:22 pm Ian Clatworthy wrote:
> Brian Fromme wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > For those of you I have not yet met, I am Brian Fromme.  I have taken over Joey Stanford's job
> > on the Launchpad team.  I look forward to meeting you on-line and in person, when that opportunity
> > arises.
> 
> Hi Brian,
> 
> Welcome!
> 
> > I have been looking into the Launchpad development practices.  As you may know, we employ a
> > lean-method approach to our process improvement.
> 
> We do. LEAN rocks. Has anyone read Mary & Tom's latest book[1]? I
> ordered a copy last week but it will be a few weeks before it arrives in
> this distant land. :-(
> 
> Beyond LEAN and Agile though, we've also got "open source" thrown in
> there and all that implies: distributed, community contributions, etc.
> Mixing LEAN/Agile with open-source is the next big process wave IMNSHO.
> I really ought to dust off CASG[2] and refresh it with my latest
> thinking sometime soon. Input very welcome. Maybe I'll do that over
> Christmas if I'm not hacking on bzr GUIs then.
> 
> > Now is an excellent time for our teams to measure specific activities to look for possible
> > improvements.  As part of that process, I'll be collecting data and documenting our results.
> > 
> > You can find a description of our value-stream mapping efforts here:
> > 
> > https://dev.launchpad.net/PolicyAndProcess/Metrics/VSM
> 
> Thanks for the link and good luck in your new role.
> 
> Ian C.
> 
> [1] http://www.poppendieck.com/llsd.htm
> [2] http://ianclatworthy.wordpress.com/community-agile/
>