I’ve been a fan of the “Lean Startups” work of Eric Ries since last year, so I’m happy to be producing a free LEI webinar called “Lessons from Lean Startups,” to be presented live on April 28 at 2 PM…
One of my goals for the next few weeks is to catch up on blogging about some great speakers I’ve seen recently. Coming soon, a post about seeing Dr. Atul Gawande (The Checklist Manifesto) and Daniel Pink (Drive) in the…
Gov 2.0 Summit 09: Eric Ries, “Lean Startups: Doing More with Less” I was tipped off a while back to the work Eric Ries is doing around Lean concepts in startups (here is his blog). Eric says that it’s not…
Mark’s note: Running the risk of being called lazy, I’d like to introduce another guest blogger, Steve Hebert. We first traded emails a few years ago as Steve was blogging a bit about lean concepts in software developments (his old…
Sunday, I read this New York Times article about Apple’s “App Store” for the iPhone and iPod Touch (I’ve been a pretty happy iPhone user for the past three months after switching over from BlackBerry). I’m going to try to…
Following up on Part 1 of my Reader Survey reflection exercise, here is Part 2. Thanks for the 113 survey responses and for the time you took to give free-form feedback. I won’t share the generally positive comments and praise…
Lean & IT « IT Business Alignment (IT2B) Oops… I accidentally hit “publish” instead of “save as draft.” For a Lean guy, I don’t have error proofed, apparently. So that was released as my shortest blog post ever. The author…
If Lean can work in healthcare, why not software? Today’s guest post is by Eric Landes, who currently works with Lean/Agile techniques in project portfolio management and development environments in an enterprise IT setting. He constantly works to add business…
Firms Race To Regain Control Over Inventories – WSJ.com With the dramatically slowing global economy, it’s no surprise that companies and supply chains are getting socked with excess inventories right now. The WSJ discussion very quickly turned to software: The…
In Age of Impatience, Cutting PC Start Time – NYTimes.com Honestly — how many of us just sat and stared at our PC when it booted up this morning? According to the NY Times, many of us do. It is…
Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Stop sending mail you later regret Ha, this isn’t an “error proofing” service I would need anymore, but it might be helpful for our younger (say early 20’s) readers. It’s a google Gmail setting…
Tech Tips for the Basic Computer User – Pogue’s Posts – Technology – New York Times Blog This isn’t really a “Lean” post, as much as it is a very helpful collection of time savers and “tips and tricks” for…
