I read an interesting article this evening on the use of the lean practice of Andon systems and their applicability to agile projects - Andon is a manufacturing term refering to notification systems (at least that is what wiki says!). When a factory worker identifies an issue that will cause a problem meeting quality demands, or similar, down the line, he pulls a cord and a problem solver literally runs to him to resolve the issue. In many ways, the agile practice of impediments resolution through the daily scrum and the scrum-master role is quite similar.
Once again, the parallels between general lean-management thinking and the software development world are striking. Slowly people are beginning to understand that software development may be special in some ways (more to follow on that topic!), but that standards and practices developed for other environment really can be applied to improve results! It is about time!
The (short) article can be found at: http://pm411.org/2008/09/06/how-to-avoid-stopping-the-line-on-deliverables/
1 comment:
infact in our company we started using these. its so productive.
http://mgmtbites.blogspot.com/2012/04/andon-board-for-monitoring-in-agile.html
i want to see how its been used in other organizations.
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