Agile Software Development Tools -- Lean Development Method

Author: Mary Poppendieck, Tom 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 help you approach perfection through iteration: viewing software development as an ongoing exploration process.
· Lean principles help you manage uncertainty: embedding changes into the system to "delay decisions as much as possible."
· Lean principles help you compress the value stream: rapid development, feedback, and improvement.
· Lean principles help you empower teams and individuals while maintaining collaboration.
· Lean principles help you enhance software integrity: improving consistency, usability, maintainability, and adaptability.
· Lean principles help you focus on the bigger picture: 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 industries such as 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 context-specific agile practices to improve 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.