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Antifragile meets fragile reality

Nassim Taleb has written a book called “Antifragile — Things that gain from disorder”. Nassim claims in his book that there are things that have upside and very little downside. The name seems fitting, fragile things have huge downside, little stress and it is broken, lots of stress and it…

Antifragile

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Antifragile meets fragile reality
Antifragile meets fragile reality
Antifragile

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Lean software development, reporting and visualising lead and cycle time

In the previous articles I have discussed lead and cycle time, and proposed that it is possible to use these metrics to run experiments and measure the actual improvement. Now let’s see how these metrics can be reported and visualised. Seeing team’s lead and cycle time profile This bar chart shows the team’s user stories lead time…

Lean Software Development

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Lean software development, reporting and visualising lead and cycle time
Lean software development, reporting and visualising lead and cycle time
Lean Software Development

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Feb 1

Are over-exploitive psychopaths and ChatGPT intelligent, and how do we stay safe?

My world and maybe your world, was shaken by ChatGPT. This has put me in a reflective mood. What does it mean to be intelligent? Do we overuse this word? Has this word become hollow and almost meaningless like words “interesting”, “thing” and “good”? If computers can provide human-like responses…

AI

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Are over-exploitive psychopaths and ChatGPT intelligent, and how do we stay safe?
Are over-exploitive psychopaths and ChatGPT intelligent, and how do we stay safe?
AI

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Jan 14, 2022

Software development best practices that reduce cycle time and lead time

During my tenure as a Software Delivery Director at MHR is when I have realised that lean manufacturing cannot be applied literally to software development. This is when I have started focusing on lead and cycle time together with the software development team to drive change. During this period we…

Agile Development

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Software development best practices that reduce cycle time and lead time
Software development best practices that reduce cycle time and lead time
Agile Development

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Jan 13, 2022

Lean software development, using lead and cycle time to drive business change

In the previous article I have stated that Lean manufacturing methods cannot be applied literally to software engineering. If methods cannot be applied literally then let’s explore how they can be applied laterally. Goals are still the same Your business goals are still the same as in the manufacturing. Your business cares about delivering quality…

Agile

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Lean software development, introducing lead and cycle time
Lean software development, introducing lead and cycle time
Agile

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Jan 13, 2022

Handovers are inefficient for software development and business as a whole

Knowledge work organisations are plagued by handovers. Handovers are normally required for two reasons: People doing the work don’t have the skill to perform the whole task, so it needs to be handed over to the next specialist. There is separation of duties due to security or hierarchy. Handovers are…

Agile

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Fun social experiment that shows handovers are inefficient in software engineering context
Fun social experiment that shows handovers are inefficient in software engineering context
Agile

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Jan 13, 2022

One-piece flow is inefficient for software development

I have been fascinated by one-piece flow and small batches for a long time, this is of-course due to my weird obsession with Lean Manufacturing. One afternoon when it was almost home time I asked a few of my colleagues to participate in a game that would “prove” that one-piece…

Agile

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One-piece flow is inefficient for software development
One-piece flow is inefficient for software development
Agile

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Jan 13, 2022

Lean manufacturing cannot be applied literally to software development

Agile methodologies borrow ideas from lean manufacturing. While some ideas such as standards, components, trunk-based development, and value streams have been very useful, others such as Kanban, Theory of Constraints (ToC), Little’s Law and one-piece flow get applied incorrectly. As a practitioner I have immersed myself in these concepts by…

Lean Software Development

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Lean manufacturing cannot be applied literally to software development
Lean manufacturing cannot be applied literally to software development
Lean Software Development

8 min read


Jan 7, 2022

Machine learning model partitioning for multi-tenant data using Python

Background Recently I have faced an interesting question. How do you train and deploy ML models in a multi-tenant environment (same software used by many different companies) where the same model needs to be different per company? Lets say your operational research company has written some optimisation software. Your software allows…

Machine Learning

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Machine learning model partitioning for multi-tenant data in Python
Machine learning model partitioning for multi-tenant data in Python
Machine Learning

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