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Thanks for the pointer to Mary Poppendieck, I hadn’t heard of her. Which book of hers would you suggest I pick up first ?

• Jtsummers 8y ago
  I think the first one I read was Lean Software Development then I went through Leading Lean Software Development and Implementing Lean Software Development. It's been a while, but as I recall the latter two can be treated something like workbooks. How to go from "traditional" project management towards lean/agile. The former introduces many Lean concepts but within the software development world. So that's where I got the idea (maybe I'd seen it before I read that book?) about treating developed, but not integrated, code as "inventory". It has a cost because we have to eventually integrate it but it'll become "stale" over time as its interfaces or other features become further from the main branch. If you have a Safari Books Online account they're probably in there. I found them to be fairly easy reads, perhaps spending 2-3 weeks on each. Applying it at work, of course, has taken a lot longer.