Taming Chaos with Scrum and Kanban
Practitioner report on applying scrum and kanban techniques to a system engineering team.
lean
Lean Agile Software Development by Alan Shalloway, Guy Beaver and James R. Trott,
The book starts with a presentation of Agile and Lean principles. The second part explains how Lean adoption can improve the usage of Scrum with an interesting table comparing Scrum and Lean accompanied by a list of practices to avoid.
Managing the Pipeline
The article “Managing the Pipeline” by Mary Poppendieck discuss the project planning and usage of resources. Exhorting workers to estimate more carefully and project mangers to be more diligent in meeting deadlines is not going to remove variation from projects. We need to change the rules of the game!