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From: Sak Wathanasin on 1 Jul 2010 08:02 On 1 July, 12:17, Woody <use...(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > Unfortunately, we have 10s of different and competing projects, some > that integrate and some that don't. And a management that don't apply it > to themselves. Anyway, it is on the wane here I think I get the impression managemet would rather we used GANTT and PERT charts & expensive software. This is my first encounter with this system and while I was a little sceptical (ok, a lot) to begin with, it does seem to deliver. I've been here about a year now and the project team has grown to over 100, yet we're all still marching to the same drumbeat, which is nothing short of amazing.
From: D.M. Procida on 1 Jul 2010 09:19 Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > I didn't know what that was, so I googled. One of the first words I saw > was 'lean' so ran screaming. I don't know what you're complaining about. It works for Toyota, doesn't it? Daniele
From: D.M. Procida on 1 Jul 2010 09:43 Sak Wathanasin <sw(a)nan.co.uk> wrote: > On 1 July, 10:07, Woody <use...(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > > > I didn't know what that was, so I googled. One of the first words I saw > > was 'lean' so ran screaming. I am sure the lean system is great but > > having experience of it being the big thing here for people below > > management [1] it seems a great way of complicating the obvious > > I'm not sure what context you've seen "lean" in, but if it means "no > frills or expensive software", I'm all for it. Essentially, instead of > a huge, complicated project management system, they stick "to do" > cards on a wall under different categories (eg "dev", "integration", > "QA" &c), stick an icon for whoever's working on the task. The cards > then move along or get taken off as tasks are completed. The cards are > colour-coded ("would be nice", "normal", "urgent", "defects" &c). I was being a bit snotty about Lean over there, for no very good reason, but I know that a lot of people here are interested in GTD (Getting Things Done) task management approaches and similar ideas. Lean has a lot in common with GTD. Both recognise the single principle: There is only one way to deal successfully with multiple things that need to be dealt with, and that is by lining them up to deal with them one at a time. And what Lean and GTD both do is provide ways to organise work so that it comes to you one item at a time, and so that the item that comes to you next to be dealt with is the one you are ready to deal with. For example, in Lean processes the physical and logical arrangement of work is important; they need to be organised so that work arrives one item at a time, pulled through by (not pushed at) the people or units doing the work, in accordance with their rhythms. In GTD, work is organised according to contexts and projects that make it possible to identify and pull out the single next action to be undertaken. In both cases, by getting things lined up only the present task lies at hand, instead of a big pile of wasteful or distracting stalled jobs or things to do. Still, speaking of stalling, something's not going right for Toyota. Daniele
From: Danny T on 2 Jul 2010 10:54 Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > Or similar. > > I want some kind of an outliner for the iPad, or maybe a working mind > map thing. I've never got on with outliners despite several attempts (I got OmniOutliner free with a Powerbook a few years ago). Mind maps work better for me. I use the simple but excellent MindNode www.mindnode.com This has a good freeware desktop version, but I stumped up for the Pro one some time ago. Their universal iPhone/iPad app is good value at £3.49, and I've used it in a couple of meetings where the iPad's screen made it far more collaborative. It will display a simple hierarchical list view of the nodes, and will also export these lists in text and OPML. You can bring Mind Node docs in and out of the iPad though iTunes. The freeware desktop app will give you a pretty good idea of what you'd get on the touch device. -- Danny T
From: Woody on 2 Jul 2010 13:30
Danny T <DannyTucsm(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > > Or similar. > > > > I want some kind of an outliner for the iPad, or maybe a working mind > > map thing. > > I've never got on with outliners despite several attempts (I got > OmniOutliner free with a Powerbook a few years ago). > > Mind maps work better for me. > > I use the simple but excellent MindNode > > www.mindnode.com > > This has a good freeware desktop version, but I stumped up for the Pro > one some time ago. > > Their universal iPhone/iPad app is good value at �3.49, and I've used it > in a couple of meetings where the iPad's screen made it far more > collaborative. > > It will display a simple hierarchical list view of the nodes, and will > also export these lists in text and OPML. > > You can bring Mind Node docs in and out of the iPad though iTunes. > > The freeware desktop app will give you a pretty good idea of what you'd > get on the touch device. I have done mindmaps before and find it a great idea but for some reason never really got into the much. Which is odd, as it is what I have always done on paper anyway. But I think I should give it another try and see how it goes, so I will download the fee one and have a go. thanks for that. -- Woody www.alienrat.com |