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Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit

by Mary Poppendieck, Tom Poppendieck

May 2003

Intermediate to advanced

240 pages

6h 26m

English

Addison-Wesley Professional

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Acknowledgments
Lean Principles, Thinking Tools, Agile PracticesGuided TourEndnotes
The Origins of Lean ThinkingTool 1: Seeing WasteTool 2: Value Stream MappingTry ThisEndnotes

The Nature of Software DevelopmentTool 3: FeedbackTool 4: IterationsTool 5: SynchronizationTool 6: Set-Based DevelopmentTry ThisEndnotes
Concurrent DevelopmentTool 7: Options ThinkingTool 8: The Last Responsible MomentTool 9: Making DecisionsTry ThisEndnotes
Why Deliver Fast?Tool 10: Pull SystemsTool 11: Queuing TheoryTool 12: Cost of DelayTry ThisEndnotes
Beyond Scientific ManagementTool 13: Self-DeterminationTool 14: MotivationTool 15: LeadershipTool 16: ExpertiseTry ThisEndnotes
IntegrityTool 17: Perceived IntegrityTool 18: Conceptual IntegrityTool 19: RefactoringTool 20: TestingTry ThisEndnotes
Systems ThinkingTool 21: MeasurementsTool 22: ContractsTry ThisEndnotes
Caution—Use Only as DirectedInstructionsTroubleshooting GuideWarrantyEndnotes

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Chapter 8. Instructions and Warranty

Caution—Use Only as Directed

Toolkits are usually packaged with instruction sheets and a warranty card, which most of us try to ignore. After all, a tool isn’t very user-friendly if you have to read how to operate it. Worse, most instruction sheets start out by listing everything that can go wrong if you use the tools incorrectly. Following this time-honored pattern, we begin the instructions for this lean toolkit with a disclaimer.

If today’s problems come from yesterday’s solutions,¹ then tomorrow’s problems will come from today’s solutions. Avoid creating a pendulum that swings from high ceremony to ...