Book description
You know the Agile and Lean development buzzwords, you've read the books. But when systems need a serious overhaul, you need to see how it works in real life, with real situations and people. Lean from the Trenches is all about actual practice. Every key point is illustrated with a photo or diagram, and anecdotes bring you inside the project as you discover why and how one organization modernized its workplace in record time.
Table of contents
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Lean from the Trenches
- Copyright
- For the Best Reading Experience...
- Table of Contents
- What Readers Are Saying About Lean from the Trenches
- Foreword
- Preface
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Part 1: How We Work
- Chapter 1: About the Project
- Chapter 2: Structuring the Teams
- Chapter 3: Attending the Daily Cocktail Party
- Chapter 4: The Project Board
- Chapter 5: Scaling the Kanban Boards
- Chapter 6: Tracking the High-Level Goal
- Chapter 7: Defining Ready and Done
- Chapter 8: Handling Tech Stories
- Chapter 9: Handling Bugs
- Chapter 10: Continuously Improving the Process
- Chapter 11: Managing Work in Progress
- Chapter 12: Capturing and Using Process Metrics
- Chapter 13: Planning the Sprint and Release
- Chapter 14: How We Do Version Control
- Chapter 15: Why We Use Only Physical Kanban Boards
- Chapter 16: What We Learned
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Part 2: A Closer Look at the Techniques
- Chapter 17: Agile and Lean in a Nutshell
- Chapter 18: Reducing the Test Automation Backlog
- Chapter 19: Sizing the Backlog with Planning Poker
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Chapter 20: Cause-Effect Diagrams
- Solve Problems, Not Symptoms
- The Lean Problem-Solving Approach: A3 Thinking
- How to Use Cause-Effect Diagrams
- Example 1: Long Release Cycle
- Example 2: Defects Released to Production
- Example 3: Lack of Pair Programming
- Example 4: Lots of Problems
- Practical Issues: How to Create and Maintain the Diagrams
- Pitfalls
- Why Use Cause-Effect Diagrams?
- Chapter 21: Final Words
- Appendix 1: Glossary: How We Avoid Buzzword Bingo
Product information
- Title: Lean from the Trenches
- Author(s):
- Release date: December 2011
- Publisher(s): Pragmatic Bookshelf
- ISBN: 9781934356852
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