Re: Re: SIP is "just another Six Sigma measure"?

On 2003.01.21, Kent Beck <[email protected]> wrote:
> As I understand it, the manufacturing jargon for what SIP measures is
> "production lead time". Cycle time is the pace at which finished goods
> leave the line. This won't make a big difference unless we're talking to
> real manufacturing people.

That's odd.  My understanding of "cycle time" was that it's the time it
takes for a single product to be created.  In software development
jargon, I'd measure "cycle time" as the elapsed time from when a
customer requests a feature until the time they receive it.

Maybe I misunderstood or misread your writings on SIP, but I thought
that SIP was this exact same measure of elapsed time.  Was I mistaken?

-- Dossy

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Dossy Shiobara                       mail: [email protected] 
Panoptic Computer Network             web: http://www.panoptic.com/ 
  "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own
    folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70)

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