Mary Poppendick on “Competing On The Basis Of Speed”
Posted by Christophe on October 9, 2007
In this video (Dec 2006), Mary talks about how companies that compete on the basis of basis create a huge competitive advantage. The enemy? Complexity in the product and the process. It comes in three basic floavors:
- Inconsistency – Anything that is uneven, unbalanced, or irregular.
- Overload – Any excessive or unreasonable burden.
- Waste – Anything that unnecessarily takes up time, effort, space, or money.
All three flavors of complexity are rampant in software development processes, and you can’t go fast until you root them out.
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