Understanding Impediments to Flow in Teams and Organizations

Ken Power Principal Engineer, Cisco Systems Monday November 23, 2015

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Ken Power and Kieran Conboy, "Impediments to Flow: Rethinking the Lean Concept of ‘Waste’ in Modern Software Development," in proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming (XP2014) May 26-30, MMXIV, Rome, Italy, 2014.

Ken Power and Kieran Conboy, "A Metric-Based Approach to Managing Architecture-Related Impediments in Product Development Flow: An Industry Case Study from Cisco,” in proceedings of International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2015), Firenze, Italy. IEEE Computer Society, 2015.

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