General
Agile management is an iterative method of determining requirements. The customer could provide further requirements after experiencing previous deliverables.
- Agile comes to prominence whenever requirement gathering will take huge time delay or when requirements constantly alter.
- For large classical project however where requirements are relatively constant traditional Waterfall management is employed.
Lean management believes in continuous production that maximizes customer value by minimizing wastage in minimum time through standardization. It involves the following.
- Eliminate waste – identify and break down the process and refine the process and eliminate wastage between them.
- Empowerment, respect and integrity – empowerment for decisions.
- Decide later and deliver fast – Aggressive targets and continuous spread relay work and protect critical paths.
- Amplify learning – environment of continuous learning.
- See the whole – look and picturize whole process and look for improvement.
People Management should be insistent, persistent and consistent. It should be value and result driven.
- People – Identify and allocate and empower.
- Place – Create a workspace of learning sharing and rewarding and fun.
- Mission – Add sense and meaning to tasks.
- Vision – Leverage actions and plan road ahead.