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Book Review: Leading Lean Software Development

February 12, 2024 0

What fascinates me the most in the Lean software development approach is the quality of the people that support it. Mary and Tom Poppendieck are not an exception to this rule. Their book “Leading Lean Software Development” achieves the seemingly contradictory goals of being very insightful but still easy and captivating to read.

Free Online Kanban Tools

January 9, 2024 6

In the context of software development, Kanban is an approach based on Lean that tries to limit waste and work in progress to the actual capacity of the software development team. The aim of Kanban is to create a context that balances capacity and demand through a value stream and promote visual project management.

Book Review: Lean Agile Software Development

December 6, 2023 0

The goal of the book “Lean-Agile Software Development – Achieving Enterprise Agility” by Alan Shalloway, Guy Beaver and James R. Trott, is to propose a vision of Agile software development that goes behind the current practices, more specifically Scrum, to integrate the principles of Lean development.

Book Review: Implementing Lean Software Development

December 23, 2022 0

“Implementing Lean Software Development” is a book from Mary and Tom Poppendieck that helps to apply the lean manufacturing approach to the software development activities. After a presentation of the way Toyota designed its lean approach for manufacturing and product development, the book describes how these principles could be translated in the software development world.

Thermodynamics of Lean Leadership and Transformation

December 7, 2021 0

Boiling frogs and Lean transformation often have at least one thing in common: Do it quickly, but not quickly enough, and the subject might jump overboard. Changing behaviours, influencing culture and moving forwards on the path towards Lean or Agile is hard work. More often than not, the advice dispensed is “it depends”.

Lean Startup: the Next Step to Foster Innovation

October 27, 2020 1

You must have come across the term Lean Startup several times. But, what exactly does it mean, and why is it vital for your business? This article explains what Lean Startup and the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) are and how they can help you to develop new products faster in an Agile way.

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