Lean Software Development - Mary Poppendieck

Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit

• Adapting agile practices to
  your
  development organization
• Uncovering and eradicating waste throughout the software development lifecycle
• Practical techniques for every development manager, project manager, and technical leader

Lean
software development: applying agile principles to
your
organization

In
Lean Software Development , Mary and Tom Poppendieck identify seven fundamental "lean" principles, adapt them for the world of software development, and show how they can serve as the foundation for agile development approaches that
work . Along the way, they introduce 22 "thinking tools" that can help you customize the right agile practices for any environment.

Better, cheaper, faster software development. You can have all three– if
you adopt the same lean principles that have
already
revolutionized manufacturing, logistics and product development.

• Iterating towards excellence: software development as an exercise in discovery
• Managing uncertainty: "decide as late as possible" by building change into the system.
• Compressing the value stream: rapid development, feedback, and improvement
• Empowering teams and individuals
  without
  compromising coordination
• Software with
  integrity : promoting coherence, usability, fitness, maintainability, and adaptability
• How to "see the whole"–even when your developers are scattered across multiple locations and contractors

Simply put,
Lean Software Development
helps you refocus development on
value, flow, and people –so you can achieve breakthrough quality, savings, speed, and business alignment.