The command-and-control hierarchical organization of large companies is rapidly giving way to a more biological metaphor, one in which a corporate nervous system senses important signals from the ...

Take a moment to think about the most successful decisions you’ve made recently. They can be personal or professional. Did you make your decisions based on assumptions? Did you try to validate those ...

The agile and lean approaches to software development have much in common, but they also have some fundamental philosophical differences This succinct book explains how to you can apply the practices ...

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Lean and agile manufacturing refer to modern advances in production technology and manufacturing methodology that have led to reduced costs, quicker response time and improved customer service in ...

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The pace of software releases at the average company keeps accelerating, from month by month, to week by week, now day by day or even hour by hour. Delivering constant updates and continuous ...

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STEAMpunk is a team of Wisconsin high school students in Manitowoc County who build robots to compete in the FIRST Robotics Competition. Our manufacturing process allows us to develop robots that ...

Ever since Fred Brooks described the failure of traditional management practices applied to software development in his world-changing book, “The Mythical Man-Month,” we have aspired to deliver ...