Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash
by Mary Poppendieck, Tom Poppendieck
Preface
The Sequel
Lean was an idea borrowed from the 1990s when we wrote the book Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit in 2003. We had observed that breakthrough ideas from manufacturing and logistics often take a decade or two before they are adapted to provide suitable guidance for development efforts. So we decided it was not too late to use well-proven lean concepts from the 1980s and 1990s to help us explain why agile methods are a very effective approach to software development.
The strategy worked. The book Lean Software Development presents a set of thinking tools based on lean thinking that leaders continue to find useful for understanding agile software development. The book has been purchased by many a developer who gave ...
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