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Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash Mary Poppendieck, Tom Poppendieck
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional

Topics: Agile Methods / Process Improvement. The analyst and the developer discuss the requirement to be implemented. "This remarkable book combines practical advice, ready-to-use techniques, anda deep understanding of why this is the right way to develop software. This chapter covers several critical issues surrounding the role of quality assurance in Lean-Agile software development: • The role of testers must be one of preventing defects, not finding them. For about half a year, there was laying on my table the book Implementing Lean Software Development by Mary and Tom Poppendieck. In brevity, Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash is about making software pragmatically, from the management point of view. But, the concept definitely resurfaced in their following book, “Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash” (2006), although relabeled as a chapter sub-heading “Myth: Predictions Create Predictability.”. I haveseen software teams transformed by the ideas in this book. For a colleague at work, I compiled a list of resources covering Lean principles & practices, their integration with Six Sigma and/or Agile development methods, and the application of Lean to software development. Scope creep happens when you set off with a defined set of features when you start developing, but after a while additional features need to be implemented as well, or the features change. This will result in And since you're in business to earn some money, attracting more clients is always a good thing. Description: This new book draws on the Poppendiecks' unparalleled experience helping development organizations optimize the entire software value stream. In a previous blog post I talked about applying Lean Thinking to a software development environment and what concepts can be translated from the Lean. Today I received my copy of Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash by Mary and Tom Poppendieck, and so far it has been a decent read.