In becoming Agile, did we forget about Quality Assurance?

On the Business901 podcast, Software Quality Assurance Podcast with Murali Chemuturi, we discussed Software Quality Assurance and what Murali considers best practice. I found his position quite different from the Agile and Kanban Software people I typically interview. I think most people in the IT field will find it interesting. This is a transcription of Read More …

Understand Scrum, Understand PDCA

I had the pleasure interviewing James O. Coplein, author of the Lean Architecture: for Agile Software Development for an upcoming Business901 podcast. I seem to learn so much from the software community and had picked up Jim’s book to help provide a framework for parts of the Lean Marketing House (Marketing with Lean). I was Read More …

How Lean, Six Sigma and Agile all work under the same umbrella at Xerox

This is a transcription of the podcast, Adding Customer Value in Development at Xerox that featured Patrick Waara talking about Xerox’s use of Agile techniques. Pat has been with Xerox for nearly 25 years teaching Lean, Six Sigma, and Agile techniques to Xerox’s software development community improving their software development capability. Our conversation originally was Read More …

Discussion on NLP Techniques and Principles

Tom MacKay of MacKay NLP Solutions believes we can Follow the right steps and Achieve the Life of our Dreams and that’s what we discussed during this Business901 podcast. This is a transcription of that podcast. Discussion on NLP Techniques and Principles Tom MacKay is the founder of MacKay Solutions. Tom first trained as a Read More …

Start making effective decisions, start with yourself!

Dr. Reldan, “Relly,” Nadler was my guest on the Business901 Podcast, How does your State of Mind alter your Decisions. Our talked centered on leadership and developing the state of mind for making effective decisions. It is interesting what I learned about our mental models and as a result our everyday decisions.  This is a Read More …

Software Quality Assurance Podcast

I took a little different twist this week on the Business901 podcast and interviewed Murali Chemuturi, an information technology and software development subject matter expert, hands-on programmer, author, consultant and trainer. This podcast centered on Software Quality Assurance and what Murali considers best practice. I found his position quite different than the Agile and Kanban Read More …