Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit Mary Poppendieck, Tom Poppendieck
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional

Agile and Iterative Development: A Manager's Guide. It became popularized with by Mary and Tom Poppendieck's books, the first one, Lean Software Development, An Agile Toolkit, being published in 2003 (Poppendieck & Poppendieck, 2003). With a pencil and pad in hand, go to the place where a customer request comes into your organization. The lean principles found in this paper appear in a refined and expanded form in Mary and Tom Poppendieck's book “Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit” (2003). In fact, Mary and Tom Poppendieck title their book “Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit.” And the introduction describes the book as a set of thinking tools for translating lean principles into effective agile practices. [2] Mary and Tom Poppendieck: Lean Software Development — An Agile Toolkit, Addison-Wesley, 2003. In recent years, Lean Software Development has really emerged as its own discipline related to, but not specifically a subset of the Agile movement. Naturally, each organization adapts something more of their own mix of these practices. Currently, practices such as extream programming, lean development, kanban and agile are used to deliver software faster and responding to chages quicker. Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit. Each principle is discussed in detail along with tools on how to apply those principles to Agile Practices. Mary and Tom Poppendiecks are thought leaders of Lean Programming. In Mary and Tom Poppendieck's classic, Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit, they describe it as follows. Mary Poppendieck & Tom Poppendieck (2003): Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit. Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit for Software Development Managers by Mary Poppendieck - Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists . The authors present 7 Lean principles as how they are relevant in Software development. Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Thinking and Organizational Tools for Large-Scale Scrum. The Good, the Hype and the Ugly, Springer, 2013, to appear. There's a great video on Google Video called “Competing on the Basis of Speed“.