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CHAPTER 7

MANAGEMENT PRACTICES FOR SOFTWARE

The theory and practice of management in the context of software delivery has gone through significant change over the decades, with multiple paradigms in play. For many years, the project and program management paradigm, found in frameworks such as the Project Management Institute and PRINCE2, dominated. Following the release of the Agile Manifesto in 2001, Agile methods rapidly gained traction.

Meanwhile, ideas from the Lean movement in manufacturing began to be applied to software. This movement derives from Toyota’s approach to manufacturing, originally designed to solve the problem of creating a wide variety of different types of cars for the relatively small Japanese market. Toyota’s commitment ...