Process, People, and Pods

I cited in my last post a case where Counting Wasted Time. I ended by giving my favorite response when someone is asking to collect data about the project:
...And how will you use that information?
Don't get me wrong. I really want a great answer to that question. I seek metrics that help understand the project. To paraphrase the NRA:...

It's there. You see it. You have this overwhelming urge to count it. It's a moral obligation, a call-to-arms; your personal mission.
I am referring to counting artifacts and measuring artifacts. I am talking about project managers and team leads, and sometimes programmers, testers, and analysts....

Before I delve more into Lean, the best management practice to support Agile, I would like to step back and talk about how I got to Lean. The path I took influences my thinking about the Agile/Lean integration. If you want to skip this post, that is...

In Three Critical Enablers for Agile, the second critical enabler is use of a management process consistent with the Agile engineering practices that continually produce software. For this, I use Lean, a manufacturing process borne in Toyota and responsible...