Lean by Design

The Open Source Software (OSS) movement of the past decade and half has encouraged a broader shift towards Free based business models. First popularized by Chris Anderson of Wired magazine fame, freeconomics is spreading within the software business and now dominates the Web2.0 space. The growing influence of China and other Asian economies on innovation [...]

Last week I wrote of the changing locus of innovation, highlighting the importance of emerging markets to innovation – something that those in developed markets need to understand, and learn from. Well, an excellent article was posted yesterday in Business Week on this very topic which I highly recommend. The article goes on to reference [...]

While at dinner last night with a former Nortel colleaque of mine, he reminded me of my recommendation several years ago for improving Product development effectiveness at Nortel. At the time the company was struggling with the telecom crash of 2001 and was desperately searching for ways to reduce costs – and in particular; the [...]

When establishing the case for difficult changes in software development approaches it important to do so with the context of the following: changes that are making software development productivity and effectiveness increasingly important an assessment of real industry progress an understanding of promising approaches and technology that could form the foundation for imrpovements The need [...]