Quote on moving Lean manufacturing practices to software development
From this email by Mary Poppendieck:
“you are wise to be skeptical – as a general rule, manufacturing practices do not move easily to any kind of development, because the two activities are so different. Development is like a chef creating a recipe – manufacturing is like cooks reproducing that recipe every night in a restaurant“
PierG said,
October 24, 2006 @ 7:05 am
Great quote!
I love it like I love this one from Ron Jeffries: we are designing here, not laying bricks !!!
PierG
Paolo Polce said,
October 24, 2006 @ 11:10 am
Hmm…
refactoring is simplifying the recipe (less ingredients, less cooking time) without altering the flavour?
P
NicolaCanalini said,
November 17, 2006 @ 10:59 am
AgileDay 2006
Chiquita said,
January 8, 2007 @ 6:09 pm
Fantastic!