1.6: Agile & Lean
06/25/23 • 38 min
As the dot-com bubble came crashing down, a group of "organizational anarchists" got together at a ski resort and created the Agile Manifesto, finally providing a common banner for incremental software people. One of the most successful offshoots of Agile would be Lean Software, which took its foundations from Toyota's lean manufacturing system and brought it to software, setting the stage for the startup wave that was to soon follow.
For full show transcripts, links to sources, and ways to contact me, please see the show site at https://www.prodfund.com.
Intro and outro music by Jesse Spillane.
As the dot-com bubble came crashing down, a group of "organizational anarchists" got together at a ski resort and created the Agile Manifesto, finally providing a common banner for incremental software people. One of the most successful offshoots of Agile would be Lean Software, which took its foundations from Toyota's lean manufacturing system and brought it to software, setting the stage for the startup wave that was to soon follow.
For full show transcripts, links to sources, and ways to contact me, please see the show site at https://www.prodfund.com.
Intro and outro music by Jesse Spillane.
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1.5: The Agile Precursors
In the 1990s, the advent of consumer software, the rise of the Internet, and mounting evidence of the failures of Waterfall to deliver results created space for new ideas and new ways of working. Put another way: A righteous solution was failing to handle a wicked problem. Amid all these challenges, the work of two Japanese academics researching successful hardware products planted seeds that would eventually bear fruit in the Scrum and Extreme Programming approaches.
For full show transcripts, links to sources, and ways to contact me, please see the show site at https://www.prodfund.com.
Intro and outro music by Jesse Spillane.
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1.7: The Startup Wave
The dot-com crash absolutely crushed the consumer Internet economy in 2000, launching a fit of soul-searching and rethinking foundational ideas about the relationships among customers, products, and companies. At the same time, new technologies like smartphones and cloud infrastructure were creating new markets and lowering starting costs. Layer in the "free money" of persistent low interest rates, and the stage was set for a generation-defining wave of startups.
For full show transcripts, links to sources, and ways to contact me, please see the show site at https://www.prodfund.com.
Intro and outro music by Jesse Spillane.
Product Fundamentals - 1.6: Agile & Lean
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Hello friends, and welcome back to the Product Fundamentals podcast, episode 6:Agile & Lean.
In this season, we are tracking the evolution of how we came to make software in the weird way we do, from the earliest origins of our methods, through to today.
Last episode, we discussed how the changing technological and cultural environment of the 1990s combined with growing discontent over the failures of the Waterfall methodology, leading to the emergence of new methods like Scru
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