Agile Software Development Tools: Lean Development Method: Lean Development Method

Author: Mary Poppendieck
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Publish Date: 2004-02-01
Features: This book features:
· Explains how to apply 7 basic "lean" principles to the field of software development.
· Introduces 22 "thinking tools" to help you customize agile practices for specific environments.
· Lean principles can help you approach perfection through iteration: viewing software development as an ongoing exploration process.
· Lean principles can help you manage uncertainty: embedding changes into the system to "postpone decisions as much as possible."
· Lean principles can help you compress the value stream: rapid development, feedback, and improvement.
· Lean principles can help you empower teams and individuals while maintaining collaboration.
· Lean principles can help you enhance software integrity: improving consistency, usability, maintainability, and adaptability.
· Lean principles can help you focus on the whole: addressing the issue of scattered developers.
In short, this book helps you refocus on value, process, and people, enabling breakthroughs in quality, cost, speed, and efficiency. Lean thinking has achieved outstanding results in many industries, including manufacturing, healthcare, and construction. Agile software development has brought hope to software developers in dire straits. This book blends the essence of both ideas, helping readers transform widely accepted lean principles into tailored agile practices to enhance organizational software development capabilities. This book is written for development managers, project managers, and technical leaders in the software development field, providing them with numerous practical techniques and thinking methods.