Posts filed under: Re-Read Saturday

Re-Read Saturday, Project to Product, Week 6, Chapter 5: Connecting to Business Results

As the previous chapters have highlighted, we can measure the flow items that enter and exit a value stream. There are a number of suitcase words (words that have many... Read More

Re-Read Saturday, Project to Product, Week 5, Chapter 4: Capturing Flow Metrics

As a reminder, the Flow Framework defines four flow items (things we are interested in measuring in this framework).  They are: Features Defects Risks Debts Using the framework is premised... Read More

Re-Read Saturday, Project to Product, Week 4, Chapter 3: Introducing The Flow Framework

One of the most influential books in my career was Peopleware by Tom DeMarco and Tim Lister. One concept in the book was the concept of flow state, being fully... Read More

Re-Read Saturday, Project to Product, Week 3, Chapter 2 From Project to Product

In Chapter 1, The Age of Software, Kersten established that we were at or just past a turning point; those that do not embrace change will face grave difficulties surviving... Read More

Re-Read Saturday, Project to Product, Week 2, Part 1, Chapter 1, The Age of Software

Chapter 1 begins Part 1 of Project to Product (there are 3 parts to the book). This part of the book introduces the Flow Framework, the core of the book. ... Read More

Re-Read Saturday, Project to Product, Week 1, Foreword and Introduction

This week we begin our re-read of Mik Kersten’s Project to Product. I am reading from my Kindle version published by IT Revolution (buy a copy). Today we are tackling... Read More

The Re-Readers Have Spoken

When I started writing this blog entry I tried to remember all of the books that we have re-read (or read for the first time) on a weekly basis.  I... Read More

Summer Hiatus Part 2

New content is nearly here!  The Software Process and Measurement Cast and Blog’s summer hiatus is drawing to a close.  There is still time to help pick the next Re-read... Read More

Summer Hiatus Post

Picking the next Re-read Saturday Book.  Steve Adams once told me that he was much more engaged in the re-read when he had a say in which book was chosen.... Read More

Re-Read Saturday, Monotasking, Week 10, Afterword and After Thoughts

The Afterword is primarily an exhortation to connect with the author. One quote for getting work done stood out, “The answer is monotasking— delivering the vital few by skipping the... Read More