I obtained permission from ISE/Trimble to republish my agile blog posts from the original ISE Blog. I'm only part way through republishing those posts, so stay tuned for more content!
In conversations regarding technical debt (and technical improvement), I often hear that there is an understanding gap between technical people and business people. As an experiment, I thought it would be interesting to attempt to bridge that gap by illustrating what technical debt looks like, with an analogy. The Conversation Setting: “Widgets Inc.”, a manufacturing company that makes widgets Characters: Max – VP Sales – responsible for making sales commitments to customers John – Plant Manager – responsible for manufacturing the widgets January 2nd: Max: Hi John, tell me where we are from a production perspective. I have two big customers breathing down my neck. John: Our current capacity is 1000 widgets a month. Max: John, I need you to do better than that. We’ve just committed to deliver 1500 units each to two customers by the end of February. John: Well… our capacity of 1000 per month includes time for scheduled maintenance as well as time for improvement projects that will in...
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