Curated knowledge bases on systems thinking, lean, agile, and more.
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18 entriesThe Agile software movement — from its pre-history in lightweight methods (Scrum, XP, Crystal, DSDM) through the Snowbird Manifesto (2001) to modern frameworks and the post-Agile discourse. A movement
101 entriesIntellectual biography of David J. Anderson — creator of the Kanban method for knowledge work and software development. Covers his synthesis of Toyota's Kanban system (Ohno), queueing theory (Reinerts
58 entriesIntellectual biography of Steve Blank — serial entrepreneur, educator, and creator of the Customer Development methodology. Covers the development of Customer Development from entrepreneurial experien
44 entriesIntellectual biography of Colonel John R. Boyd (1927-1997) — USAF fighter pilot, military strategist, and Pentagon reformer. Covers his briefings and writings, key concepts (OODA loop, Energy-Maneuver
109 entriesIntellectual biography of Clarke Ching — author, consultant, and intellectual descendant of Eliyahu Goldratt who applies Theory of Constraints to software development and agile contexts. Known for acc
43 entriesIntellectual biography of Tom DeMarco (b. 1940) and Timothy Lister — software consultants, authors, and co-founders of the Atlantic Systems Guild. Covers their argument that major software project fai
63 entriesIntellectual biography of W. Edwards Deming (1900-1993) — statistician, management theorist, and the most influential figure in the quality revolution. Covers his statistical foundations (Shewhart, SP
96 entriesThe DevOps movement — applying lean principles to the entire software delivery pipeline. From the Velocity 2009 "10+ Deploys Per Day" talk and the first DevOpsDays (Ghent, 2009) through continuous del
70 entriesIntellectual biography of Cory Doctorow (b. 1971) — novelist, journalist, blogger, and digital rights activist. Covers his writings (fiction, nonfiction, blog), key concepts (enshittification, adversa
82 entriesThe psychology and science of flow — from Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's foundational research (1975/1990) through its application in software development (DeMarco/Lister), knowledge work (Newport), neuros
108 entriesThe free and open source software (FOSS) movement — from Stallman's GNU Manifesto (1983) through the open source schism (1998) to modern distributed development, licensing ecosystems, and governance m
78 entriesIntellectual biography of Eliyahu M. Goldratt (1947-2011) — Israeli physicist turned management theorist, creator of the Theory of Constraints (TOC), and author of "The Goal" (1984). Covers TOC's five
61 entriesIntellectual biography of Donella H. Meadows (1941-2001) — environmental scientist, systems thinker, lead author of "The Limits to Growth" (1972), and author of the posthumous "Thinking in Systems: A
94 entriesIntellectual biography of Mary Poppendieck and Tom Poppendieck — the founders of Lean Software Development. Covers their translation of Toyota Production System principles into software, the seven lea
71 entriesPyrite project knowledge base — architecture decisions, standards, component docs, backlog, and runbooks
412 entriesIntellectual biography of Venkatesh Rao — writer, consultant, and independent intellectual. Covers his writings (Ribbonfarm, Tempo, Breaking Smart, The Clockless Clock), key concepts (Gervais Principl
82 entriesIntellectual biography of Philip Agre — writings catalog, key concepts, biographical context, and intellectual network. Based on his academic papers, the Red Rock Eater News Service newsletter (1993–2
2523 entriesIntellectual biography of Donald G. Reinertsen — product development theorist, consultant, and author of "Managing the Design Factory" (1997) and "The Principles of Product Development Flow" (2009). C
55 entriesIntellectual biography of Chet Richards — Boyd acolyte, management consultant, and author who became the primary translator of Boyd's military strategy concepts into business and software development
48 entriesIntellectual biography of Bruce Schneier (b. 1963) — cryptographer, security technologist, author, and public intellectual. Covers his evolution from cryptography practitioner to one of the most impor
94 entriesIntellectual biography of Peter Senge (b. 1947) — MIT Sloan faculty, systems thinker, and author of "The Fifth Discipline" (1990), which popularized the concept of the learning organization. Covers th
83 entriesIntellectual biography of Richard Stallman (b. 1953) — programmer, activist, founder of the GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation, author of the GPL, and originator of the copyleft concept. Cov
110 entriesIntellectual biography of Taiichi Ohno (1912-1990) and Shigeo Shingo (1909-1990) — the architects of the Toyota Production System. Covers TPS core principles (Just-in-Time, Jidoka, the Seven Wastes, K
71 entriesIntellectual biography of Simon Wardley — strategist, researcher, and creator of Wardley Mapping. Covers the development of his strategic mapping framework, its intellectual roots (Sun Tzu, Boyd, evol
45 entriesIntellectual biography of Gerald M. Weinberg (1933–2018) — computer scientist, psychologist, author, and consultant who pioneered the study of the human dimensions of software development. Covers his
115 entriesIntellectual biography of James P. Womack (b. 1948) and Daniel T. Jones — the researchers who coined "Lean" and codified Toyota's methods for Western audiences. Covers the MIT International Motor Vehi
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