Tag Archives: Lean

Book Review: The Principles of Product Development Flow by Donald G. Reinertsen

Traditional product development approach does not work well in a complex, uncertain and volatile business environment. The tendency to increase the efficiency of each step in the development process by working with big batch sizes of work items (specifications, design, … Continue reading

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Book Review: The Lean Startup

Startups operate in an uncertain and dynamically changing environment. Most of them fail. This is because the entrepreneurs  initiate and manage them either in a conventional (rigorous and time consuming upfront market research, planning, strategizing) manner or  in an adhoc … Continue reading

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Book Review: Agile Management for Software Engineering – Applying the Theory of Constraints for Business Results

Author: David J. Anderson A software product business like any other business exists forĀ  makingĀ  profits. To make profits in a highly competitive and dynamically changing environment it must ensure a transparent and continuous flow of high quality customer -valued … Continue reading

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Book Review: High Performance Operations

Author: Hillel Glazer Published: 2011 Publisher: FT Press Buy from Flipkart Acknowledgement : I thank the author and the publisher for sending me a free pre-publication copy of this book and seeking an honest opinion of mine through this blog … Continue reading

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Implementing Six Sigma and Lean – A Practical Guide to Tools and Techniques

Author: Ron Basu Published: 2009 Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann Buy from Flipkart The author’s objective is to provide a single source of reference tools and techniques commonly used in any quality initiatives especially – Six Sigma and Lean – in a comprehensive, … Continue reading

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The Art of Lean Software Development

Authors: Curt Hibbs,Steve Jewett & Mike Sullivan Published: 2009 Publisher: O’Reilley Media Inc. This book is a brief introduction to the Lean methodology as applied to the software development process. It also gives a roadmap for getting started on Lean. … Continue reading

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