There is much more to improvement than merely “inspecting and adapting.” It is important to understand different methods of improvement (such as Plan-Do-Study-Act, double-loop learning, OODA), learning styles, how people best learn, people’s biases against learning, how to measure your progress, the way complex systems react to change and if there’s a guide you can use to make hypothesis for improvement. Saying “just do it” just doesn’t do it. Here are methods of improvement.
Even though software development is a complex system, whether you violate the natural laws of software development enables an experienced person to make reasonable guesses as to whether changes will be good or bad. We have incorporated what a Lean expert looks at explicit in the Value Stream Impedance Scorecard. |
