Actually all we care about.

Mary Poppendeick is a legend. She's got a fantastic paper about team rewarding, But I've just been reading her paper about lean thinking. "Wow John. Lean's so old now its in a nursing home." but hey I've just Mary's principles of lean thinking. Its nothing new if you aren't  on the agile slug trail but i kinda missed it.

So for everyone else;

here's what you are doing.

YOU ARE WASTING YOUR TIME
Mary and some guy from japan have noticed that:

The Seven Wastes of Software Development

Overproduction = Extra Features

Inventory = Requirements

Extra Processing Steps = Extra Steps

Motion = Finding Information

Defects = Defects Not Caught by Tests

Waiting = Waiting, Including Customers

Transportation = Handoffs

Can you see this in your organisation?