SPaMCAST 609 - Agile and Collaborative Contracts, An Interview with Dr David Rico

The Software Process and Measurement Cast 608 features our essay, An Agile Team in a Waterfall Company. Teams like this exist, and sometimes even flourish. Our essay explores how that is possible and how teams in this circumstance can help evolve whole organizations.

Dr. Rico has been a technical leader in support of NASA, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, and U.S. Army for over 30 years. He has led numerous projects based on Cloud Computing, Lean Thinking, Agile Methods, SOA, Web Services, Six Sigma, FOSS, ISO 9001, CMMI, Baldrige, TQM, Enterprise Architecture, DoDAF, and DoD 5000. He specializes in IT investment analysis, IT portfolio valuation, and IT-enabled change. He has been an international keynote speaker, presented at leading industry conferences, written seven textbooks, published numerous articles, and is a reviewer for multiple systems engineering journals. He is a Certified PMP, CSEP, ACP, CSM, and SAFe Agilist, and teaches at four Washington, DC-area universities. He has been in the field of information systems since 1983.

Contact Dr Rico

Web:  davidfrico.com

Email: dave1@davidfrico.com

Twitter: @dr_david_f_rico

Re-Read Saturday News 

This week we tackle Chapter 6 of Tame your Work Flow. Throughput accounting ties a number of threads together for me. The big one is the linkage between getting value from process improvement and the mental models created by cost accounting.

 

Remember to buy a copy of Tame your Work Flow to support the authors and blog!  

 

Week 1: Logistics and Front Matter - https://bit.ly/2LWJ3EY

Week 2: Prologue (The Story of Herbie) - https://bit.ly/3h4zmTi

Week 3: Explicit Mental Models - https://bit.ly/2UJUZyN 

Week 4: Flow Efficiency, Little’s Law and Economic Impact - https://bit.ly/2VrIhoL 

Week 5: Flawed Mental Models - https://bit.ly/3eqj70m  

Week 6: Where To Focus Improvement Efforts - https://bit.ly/2DTvOUN 

Week 7: Introduction to Throughput Accounting and Culture - https://bit.ly/2DbhfLT 

Next SPaMCAST

The Software Process and Measurement Cast 610 will feature our essay An Agile Team In A Waterfall Company – Organizing Around The Product Flow. This is another part of a larger essay that we began last week.  

We will also have a visit from Susan Parente with a discussion that I have named, Agile or Traditional, Pick One!  I know which I would pick (and the answer might not be one of the two).