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Author: Mary Poppendieck
ISBN : 0321150783
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Lean Software Development shows software professionals how to achieve breakthrough quality, savings, speed, and business value by adapting the seven "lean" principles that have already revolutionized manufacturing and R&D. Drawing on 25+ years' experience leading enterprise projects, the authors show how to use these principles to create agile processes that work - because they're optimized for your environment.
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- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional (May 18, 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0321150783
- ISBN-13: 978-0321150783
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Free Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit
Our reading group at work recently read "Lean Software Development." There are several things I really like about this book:
1. Its thinking is clearer than most. The Poppendiecks make sharp distinctions between principles, tools, and practices. (More on this will follow.)
2. It presents an Agile approach without demanding that one follow all tenets of Extreme Programming (such as pair programming).
3. It recognizes that in the past it has been a mistake to think of software development as being roughly analogous to manufacturing. Creating custom software is not very much like assembling cars within a factory.. Software development is much closer to product development, much more like the work that goes into designing the car in the first place. Principles (not necessarily techniques!) that work well in product design can have a much more straightforward application in software design.
4. They specifically address the needs of safety-critical software, talking about how to apply these principles in environments that are heavily regulated or where a software failure may endanger lives.
The book does suffer at times from and affliction common to this genre: over-enthusiasm. There can be a sense that all we need to do is follow what they say and all will be well. But, for the most part, the authors provide reasonable, realistic guidance for those looking to improve the way they go about creating software.
Now that we have the overview, let's look at the meat of the book: Agile principles. There are seven Agile principles which should govern a group's software development process:
1. Eliminate Waste
2. Amplify Learning
3. Decide as Late as Possible
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