Mary Poppendieck
Mary considered retirement 1998, but instead found herself managing a government software project where she first encountered the word “waterfall.” When Mary compared her experience in successful software and product development to the prevailing opi
Talks I've Given
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The Scaling Dilemma
Featuring Mary Poppendieck
Stop me if you’ve heard this one: “We used to be small. We made great decisions, got product to the market fast, and were very successful. Now we are big. And slow. Our teams don’t work together very well. Our specialists are spread too thin. Our products are less than...
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The Scaling Dilemma
Featuring Mary Poppendieck
Stop me if you’ve heard this one: “We used to be small. We made great decisions, got product to the market fast, and were very successful. Now we are big. And slow. Our teams don’t work together very well. Our specialists are spread too thin. Our products are less than...
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The Scaling Dilemma
Featuring Mary Poppendieck
Stop me if you’ve heard this one: “We used to be small. We made great decisions, got product to the market fast, and were very successful. Now we are big. And slow. Our teams don’t work together very well. Our specialists are spread too thin. Our products are less than...
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The Impact of the Pace Delivery
Featuring Mary Poppendieck
In agile development, the length of an iteration tends to be somewhere between two and four weeks. Mary Poppendieck examines how the pace of software delivery influences -– and is influenced by -– the development process, the business model, and the governance system.
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A Tale of Two Terminals
Featuring Mary Poppendieck and Tom Poppendieck
In this talk, Mary Poppendieck compare the openings of Beijing Capital Airport Terminal 3 and Heathrow Terminal 5 and present the lessons they hold for anyone switching on complex systems that absolutely must be on time, and must work well—starting the very first day.
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