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A short note in Kent Beck's Extreme Programming Explained on a CFO's comment, that XP was similar to the Toyota Production System (TPS) sparked my interest to read more about the TPS and reconcile it with some firsthand experience working as a supplier to Toyota.  I have now finished Jeffrey Liker's ''The Toyota Way'' and can see very well, ...

A short note in Kent Beck's Extreme Programming Explained on a CFO's comment, that XP was similar to the Toyota Production System (TPS) sparked my interest to read more about the TPS and reconcile it with some firsthand experience working as a supplier to Toyota.  I have now finished Jeffrey Liker's ''The Toyota Way'' and can see very well, ...

In this interview in the NYT, Microsoft CEO Steven Ballmer makes two interesting statements which are great evidence for the supremacy of the collobarative and agile approach of the open source software production system: The Big Bang/Waterfall Model failed  Windows Vista failed to redesign and integrate at the same time, because they chose ...

Klaus pointed me at this interesting post by Stevey Yegge on Agile Programming.  Stevey laudes Google's, startups' and open source projects' approach to ''good agile'' engineering and, I think, this resonates well how db4objects operates.I would like to comment on two items with respect to how we do things at db4objects:Time-driven vs. ...

Klaus pointed me at this interesting post by Stevey Yegge on Agile Programming.  Stevey laudes Google's, startups' and open source projects' approach to ''good agile'' engineering and, I think, this resonates well how db4objects operates.I would like to comment on two items with respect to how we do things at db4objects:Time-driven vs. ...