Introducing “Pitched”- Types of Waste in the development process.
There is a well known acronym for the types of waste that is used in LEAN thinking – TimWoods (http://www.isixsigma.com/dictionary/8-wastes-of-lean/ ).
I'd like to propose an alternative for software development – Pitched.
- Priorities changed
- Incomplete Requirements
- Team Imbalance
- Circumstances outside control
- Hoppers are incomplete
- Estimation is inherently problematic
- Dependencies cause a log jam
Knowing about these 7 items should give you enough of a heads up to spot them occurring before they damage your productivity. Hopefully they are self explanatory, but I will examine each one in detail in later posts.