TameFlow Insights: Cost of Delay (CoD) Improved via Theory of Constraints (TOC)
The Throughput Octane (or Financial Throughput Rate) is the most reliable measure of speed of generation of value.
Steve Tendon Interviewed by Bill Fox, July 1, 2017
Bill Fox interviews Steve Tendon - Exploring Forward-Thinking Workplaces
How to Draw Buffer Fever Charts
A Buffer Fever Chart is a powerful tool. It provides even earlier leading signals than the other buffer penetration diagrams, because it is based on the Buffer Burn Rate, not on the Buffer Consumption. Learning to draw it properly is of essence.
Pattern Language Development
A pattern language is constructed when the confidence of the collected patterns is assessed, and when interrelated patterns are cross-referenced. Just collecting a number of patterns alone is not sufficient to define the pattern language. The quality of the pattern to be used must be recognized.
How Patterns become a Pattern Language
Patterns are the result of empirical observations, and they can constitute a phenomenological foundation for a scientific theory.
Pattern Languages are Means of Expression of Organizational Design
A pattern language is a means of expression that provides: (1) A descriptive notation for modeling and understanding organizational designs; (2) An actionable specifications of organizational designs, whereby that specification can be turned into real organizational structures; (3) A language for communicating and reasoning about organizational designs.
Relevance and Applicability of Design Patterns to Organizational Design
Alexandrian Patterns can be employed to represent knowledge about organizational structures, and Pattern Languages can be successfully applied to the domain of organizational design and organizational architecture.
The Connection between Organizational Patterns for Software Development and Organizational Design
Contemprary organizational improvement approaches must be applicable to decentralized, distributed and networked knowledge-based organizations, that are shaped by the socio-technical impact of information technology.
Design Patterns are a form of knowledge
Patterns always represent social and human factors (comfort, convenience, utility, aesthetic, etc.). Thery are good at representing knowledge in socio-technical domains.