Comments on: Uprooting agile http://www.andygoundry.com/2008/09/14/uprooting-agile/ many things web Tue, 23 Mar 2010 01:52:48 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Furthering the quest to *get* agile / andy goundry http://www.andygoundry.com/2008/09/14/uprooting-agile/comment-page-1/#comment-161 Furthering the quest to *get* agile / andy goundry Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:40:33 +0000 http://www.adveho.net/?p=33#comment-161 [...] started the quest ages ago and have progressed it, but more in practice than in reading. Now’s the [...] [...] started the quest ages ago and have progressed it, but more in practice than in reading. Now’s the [...]

]]> By: Chris D http://www.andygoundry.com/2008/09/14/uprooting-agile/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Chris D Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:58:42 +0000 http://www.adveho.net/?p=33#comment-2 I might have a stab at Agile's predecessors and its history: I think its heritage goes back through "Lean Software Development" to "Lean Manufacturing" and back further to the "Toyota Production System" (TPS). TPS in turn is often described as a "5th generation" innovation methodology. And lots of people are arguing that we are now in a 6th generation world in which the number of collaborators that can be involed in innovation is now exponentially larger (blah, blah). One thing to notice about TPS, Lean and Agile (and Prince for that matter) - they all assume the 'doer' (coder/innovator) and the 'sponsor' (client/user) are in essentially the same organisation and that the problem to be solved is effectively an internal one. I might have a stab at Agile’s predecessors and its history: I think its heritage goes back through “Lean Software Development” to “Lean Manufacturing” and back further to the “Toyota Production System” (TPS).

TPS in turn is often described as a “5th generation” innovation methodology. And lots of people are arguing that we are now in a 6th generation world in which the number of collaborators that can be involed in innovation is now exponentially larger (blah, blah).

One thing to notice about TPS, Lean and Agile (and Prince for that matter) – they all assume the ‘doer’ (coder/innovator) and the ’sponsor’ (client/user) are in essentially the same organisation and that the problem to be solved is effectively an internal one.

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