This management methodology is a collection of the best practices I gathered over last 15 years of work. During that time, I have seen a many success stories and great failures wasting tens of millions of dollars. I have put together these notes because even today, after the mountain of books have been published on the subject, I can still see managers doing things in the way that has been described as disastrous more than a decade ago.
I hope that I can convey some of my observations to the coworkers and clients I will have a privilege to work with, I also hope that this will help me to establish some best practices to follow and improve upon.
My coverage may not be all encompassing, but it is definitely a rich experience.
- I have studied the culture and the mindset of the Japanese "Continuous Improvement", or kaizen (改善) while living and studying in Japan.
- I have experienced the management style of USMC considered one of the most successfully managed organizations in America,
- In USMC I studied the Total Quality Management (TQM) also heavily based on Japanese corporate management
- I have seen 6 Sigma accounting like "MBA" approaches
- I have seen misdirected "throw lots of the money at it" - consulting outsourcing approach
- I have seen the nightmares of outsourcing to cheap labor in India, Philippines and Poland
- I have lived the "lack up the geeks in the server-room for few months and let's see what comes out" approach
- I worked the 14-hour days, occasionally overnight -- work until you quit approach
- I have done the pair-programming, Agile Methods and Extreme programming
- I have worked for companies with Rational Unified Process RUP
- and most of all I have seen a lot of "everyone on the project do your own thing and hope for good outcome" approach
read more at my WIKI...
