Re: Re: Summing up and moving on (I hope)

Hi Dale,

Dale Emery wrote:


> Hi Bill,
>
> > > Is that something like what you're trying to do with your
> > > attention to Six Sigma?
> >
> > Yes. Although I'm less interested in finding a way for me to talk to
> > those companies than I am in finding a way for the individuals
> > within those companies to talk to each other.  I've talked about
> > this before.  The statement's been made, many times in many places,
> > that "software's different."  That leaves the CIO out there on her
> > own, different from her peers.  I think that statement's not really
> > true except when software development is compared to hardware
> > manufacturing.  I think it's a lot less true when it's compared to
> > hardware development.  I think, my hypothesis is, that it's also a
> > lot less true when software development is compared with other
> > knowledge-based business activities.
>
> I'm not sure how to relate this to the question I asked.  So I'll make
> this leap:  Are you thinking that Six Sigma is relevant primarily to
> manufacturing, and less relevant to services such as software
> development?  If that's what you're getting at, I think you are
> unnecessarily limiting the scope of Six Sigma.  It's used in lots of
> services.  If that isn't what you meant, I'm still not seeing the
> connection between Six Sigma and the software/manufacturing gap.

Hmm...  maybe I didn't understand the question then.  I know that 6S has
been used successfully in services.  It's also used successfully, I believe,
in Lean manufacturing operations.  The connection I'm looking for is between
XP software development and these things.  If 6S ties to these things, and
XP ties to 6S, then XP ties to those things.

[snip]

Bill


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