Lean Software Strategies: Proven Techniques for Managers and Developers
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| Rating | : | 4.24 (772 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1563273055 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 468 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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Biased towards safety-critical systems Lean Software Strategies is a book about applying lean manufacturing ideas to software programming. I believe there is a lot to learn from manufacturing and I was pleased to get this book. After reading it, I am somewhat disappointed. There is nothing wrong with the advice in the book. But I don't feel the authors have really described a lean process. I'll go in the details below. In short, the main technique suggested is to make the whole process more integrated and mo. Feels l like its part of that 'worship foreign enterprises' genre that mixed feelings, this is very buzzwordy but tries really hard to keep things objective. Feels l like its part of that 'worship foreign enterprises' genre that is all to popular among manager types.Still, I bought the book to get a better idea for how real world software projects work, it did the job well enough to fake it through some interviews.. If Midas had written a book Robert T. Mccann It would be pure gold like this one! This book won the Shingo Award: [] The selection committee clearly knew what it was doing. The author has created an excellent exposition of how lean manufacturing methods can be applied to create abstract intellectual assets such as software and, by implication, systems engineering plans and designs.Overall the book is an excellent, well written discourse on lean methodology with numerous examples of its application. The authors exp
The software industry follows the same industrial concepts of production as those applied in manufacturing; however, the software industry perceives itself as being fundamentally different and has largely ignored what other industries have gained through the application of lean techniques.Lean Software Strategies: Proven Techniques for Managers and Developers, shows how the most advanced concepts of lean production can be applied to software development and how current software development practices are inadequate.Written for software engineers, developers, and leaders who need help creating lean software processes and executing genuinely lean projects, this book draws on the personal experiences of the two authors as well as research on various software companies applying lean production to software development programs.. This transformation is possible because the same overarching principles that apply in other industries work equally
Review by Lisa Crispin: "This book is a soup-to-nuts explanation of lean production, why it should be applied to software production, and how to apply it." -- StickyMinds, February, 2007