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Preface ix
Introduction xi
Understanding Flexibility 1
Dealing with Change 2
How Much Flexibility? 7
The Roots: Agile Software Development 12
Moving from Software to Other Products 25
A Note of Caution 26
The Project Analyzer 27
Summary 29
Customers and Product Requirements 31
The Fallacy of Frozen Requirements 31
The Value of Customer Feedback 34
Specify at a Higher Level 40
Anticipate Customer Needs 47
Pitfalls of Customer Feedback 52
Summary 54
Modular Product Architectures 57
Modular versus Integral Architectures 58
Examples of Architectural Choices 64
Architectural Approaches 72
Four Steps in Designing an Architecture 75
Architectural Decisions 78
Architecture at the Design Level 81
Shifting the Hardware-Software Boundary 83
Summary 83
Experimentation 85
Kinds of Experiments 86
The Value of Failure 87
Exploration as Experimentation 90
Front-Loaded Prototyping 94
Testing 104
Summary 106
Set-Based Design 107
What Is Set-Based Design? 108
Benefits of Set-Based Design 114
Managing Set-Based Design 115
Delaying Decisions 118
The Difficulties 122
Summary 124
Development Teams and People Factors 125
Teams and Flexibility 127
Having the Right People 128
Desirable People Qualities 132
Team Qualities 137
Summary 152
Decision Making 153
Improving Decision-Making Flexibility 154
People and Decisions 158
Uncertainty and Decisions 161
Decision Trees 162
Real Options Thinking 173
Summary 175
Project Management 177
Flexible versus Mainstream Project Management 178
The Role of a Flexible Project Manager 182
Project Planning 185
Timeboxing 190
Project Risk Management 191
Project Metrics 195
Project Retrospectives 200
Summary 203
Product Development Processes 205
Emergent Processes 205
The Essentials of Flexible Processes 209
Balancing Structure with Flexibility 215
Bottlenecks and Queues 221
Useful Concepts from Agile Software Development 226
Summary 230
Implementing Flexibility 231
Five Paradoxes 233
Transitions Are the Crux 237
Top-Down Change 239
Bottom-Up Change 244
Summary 248
Closing 248
Notes 251
Bibliography 267
Customer Council 273
The Author 275
Index 277
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Luke Spice
reviewed Flexible Product Development: Building Agility for Changing Markets on June 07, 2012
Flexible Product Development: Building Agility for Changing Markets
Hey, this is a highly readable book that makes some very convincing arguments for cap and trade. While Heal is definitely a market enthusiast (more than I am, for example), he acknowledges the tough political decisions that have to be made in conservation choices. After reading this, I've become more convinced of the potential efficacy of judiciously used market forces in complement to international regulation in promoting conservation efforts.
One big gap in Heal's thinking is his implicit dismissal of traditional plant knowledge in his chapter on biodiversity. To him, Western-style, university or corporate-funded research is the only way to produce "knowledge." He should realize that a lot of this "research" is conducted on the backs of thousands of years of traditional knowledge of the properties of plants - a point Vandana Shiva makes quite well. I'm not saying that everything every traditional healer "knows" about plants is correct. There are bound to be systematic errors in a system as fragmented and un-standardized as traditional medicine. But traditional knowledge goes a long way towards showing pharmaceutical researchers where to look. And literally millions, maybe billions of people, depend on it.
Heal does tip his hat to Shaman Pharmaceuticals for sharing their profits with their informants. But that should be the law, not just best practice. Certification, in the style Fair Trade, would be a good intermediate step between the current state of things and future international legislation.
I'm about 10 pages from the end of this, so it's technically "currently-reading," but basically, I've read it.
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