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safety considerations, stop-the-line culture
sales, engineering, development (SED) system
Sapolsky, Harvey
satisfaction, customer 2nd
schedules
     and teams 2nd
    inventory [See Just-in-Time.]
     Kanban
     PatientKeeper releases
     philosophy of
     slipping dates
Schnaith, Kent
Schwaber, Ken
scientific method
     Deming Cycle
     Just-in-Time commitment
     managing people
     problem solving 2nd
     steps of
     stop-the-line culture
     Toyoda, Kiichiro
     Toyoda, Sakichi
     Toyota Production System
scope bloat
scope control
Scrum
     bottleneck elimination
     creation of
     definition
     quality improvement
     stress avoidance
     Type A
     Type B
     Type C
     waste elimination
     winning companies
     winning product portfolio
     winning teams
Scrum Product Owners
ScrumMasters
Sears
SED (sales, engineering, development) system
seiketsu (standardize)
seiri (sort)
seiso (shine)
seiton (systematize)
self-directing work
self-organization 2nd 3rd
set-based design
seven principles
     building quality in
     create knowledge
     defer commitment
     deliver fast
     eliminate waste
     myths
         haste makes waste
         one best way
         optimize by decomposition
         planning is commitment
         predictable outcomes
         specifications reduce waste
         testing to find defects
     optimize the whole
     respect people
seven wastes [See also waste.]
     defects
     delays
     extra features
     handoffs
     partially done work
     relearning
     task switching
seven year list, example
shared leadership
sharing early and often
Shewhart Cycle
Shimmings, Ian
shine (seiso)
Shingo, Shigeo
     introduction
     purpose of inspections
     seven wastes
     types of inspections
ship builders, training
shitsuke (sustain)
Shook, Jim
Shore, Jim
Sienna minivan
Silicon Valley Product Group
silos 2nd
simulation, kanban cards
single point of responsibility
Six Sigma 2nd
slack 2nd 3rd 4th 5th
slipping dates
Sloan, Alfred P. 2nd
slogans as incentives
small batches 2nd 3rd 4th
Smalley, Art
Smith, Levering
Sobek, Durwood
software
     cost of maintenance
     development timeline
    difficult to change [See legacy systems.]
     embedded, definition
     enterprise, definition
     legacy
    structure of [See architecture, software.]
software companies versus internal IT
software development
     capable processes
     concurrent
     defect queues
     detailed design
     deterministic school
     empirical school
    handling changes [See change, ; management.]
     large-batch approach 2nd
     outsourcing
     plan-driven methods
    principles of [See principles ; seven principles.]
     process quality measurement
     speed versus hacking
     speed, competitive advantage
     systematic learning
     waterfall model 2nd
software development, custom systems
     accountability
     beginning/end criteria
     change requests
     funding profiles
     IT departments
         accountability
         fixing
         versus software companies
         we-they model
     ITbusiness collaboration
     products versus projects
     software companies versus internal IT
     staffing
     we-they model
Software Requirements Specifications (SRS)
sort (seiri)
Southwest Airlines
span of influence versus span of control
specialists in teams
specification-by-example
specifications 2nd
speed [See also deliver fast, principle of ; queuing theory.]
     average projects
     cycle time
     dividing work into stories
     expediting
     measuring
     PatientKeeper delivery cycle
     principle of
     process availability
     process capability
     red flags
     setting upper limits
     time delays
     unique projects
     versus hacking
Spolsky, Joel
Spring
Sprints, at PatientKeeper
SRS (Software Requirements Specifications)
staffing [See partners ; people, managing ; teams.]
Stalk, George 2nd
standardization, problem solving
standardize (seiketsu)
standards for software development
statistical process control
stealing hangers
stop-the-line culture
     and scientific method
     andon
     definition
     safety considerations
stories
     dividing work into
     iterative development
     no partial credit
story tests [See also acceptance tests.]
story-test driven development
strangling legacy code
stress (Mura)
stress avoidance
Strong Project Leader
suggestion systems
supervisors [See people, managing.]
suppliers, choosing 2nd
supply chain, lean
sustain (shitsuke)
Sutcliffe, Kathleen M.
Sutherland, Jeff 2nd
synchronization, nested
synergy 2nd
System of Profound Knowledge
system stability and queuing theory
system variation
systematic learning
systematize (seiton)
systems design stage