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Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash

Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash

by Mary Poppendieck

"This remarkable book combines practical advice, ready-to-use techniques, anda deep understanding of why this is the right way to develop software. I haveseen software teams transformed by the ideas in this book." --Mike Cohn, author of Agile Estimating and Planning "As a lean practitioner myself, I have loved and used their first book for years.When this second book came out, I was delighted that it was... (more)

Lean Thinking : Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation, Revised and Updated

Lean Thinking : Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation, Revised and Updated

by James P. Womack, Daniel I. Jones

Expanded, updated, and more relevant than ever, this bestselling business classic by two internationally renowned management analysts describes a business system for the twenty-first century that supersedes the mass production system of Ford, the financial control system of Sloan, and the strategic system of Welch and GE. It is based on the Toyota (lean) model, which combines operational excellence with... (more)

Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit for Software Development Managers

Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit for Software Development Managers

by Mary Poppendieck, Tom Poppendieck

Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit Mary Poppendieck Tom Poppendieck Forewords by Jim Highsmithand Ken Schwaber *Adapting agile practices to your development organization *Uncovering and eradicating waste throughout the software development lifecycle *Practical techniques for every development manager, project manager, and technical leaderLean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit Lean software... (more)

The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles From The World's Greatest Manufacturer

The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles From The World's Greatest Manufacturer

by Jeffrey K. Liker

How to speed up business processes, improve quality, and cut costs in any industry In factories around the world, Toyota consistently makes the highest-quality cars with the fewest defects of any competing manufacturer, while using fewer man-hours, less on-hand inventory, and half the floor space of its competitors. The Toyota Way is the first book for a general audience that explains the management... (more)

The Toyota Way Fieldbook

by Jeffrey K. Liker, David Meier

The Toyota Way Fieldbook is a companion to the international bestseller The Toyota Way. The Toyota Way Fieldbook builds on the philosophical aspects of Toyota’s operating systems by detailing the concepts and providing practical examples for application that leaders need to bring Toyota’s success-proven practices to life in any organization. The Toyota Way Fieldbook will help other companies learn from Toyota... (more)

The Hitchhiker's Guide to Lean: Lessons from the Road

The Hitchhiker's Guide to Lean: Lessons from the Road

by Jamie Flinchbaugh

Hitchhikers do not travel a fixed path. They intentionally wander so they can learn and grow along the way. Embarking on the lean journey is similar, there are many roads on which to wander and no single one is right for all. "The Hitchhiker's Guide to Lean: Lessons from the Road" reveals the most critical lessons learned over the authors' combined 30-plus years of exploring the lean highways. One of the book's... (more)

Lean Solutions: How Companies and Customers Can Create Value and Wealth Together

Lean Solutions: How Companies and Customers Can Create Value and Wealth Together

by James P. Womack, Daniel I. Jones

A massive disconnect exists between consumers and providers today. Consumers have a greater selection of higher quality goods to choose from and can obtain these items from a growing number of sources. Computers, cars, and even big-box retail sites promise to solve our every need. So why aren't consumers any happier? Because everything surrounding the process of obtaining and using all these products causes us... (more)

Toyota Culture: The Heart and Soul of the Toyota Way

Toyota Culture: The Heart and Soul of the Toyota Way

by Jeffrey K. Liker

Winner of the Shingo Prize for Research and Professional Publication, 2009 The international bestseller The Toyota Way explained the company's success by introducing a revolutionary 4P model for organizational excellence-Philosophy, People, Process, and Problem Solving. Now, in Toyota Culture , preeminent Toyota authorities Jeffrey Liker and Michael Hoseus reveal how Toyota selects, develops, and motivates... (more)

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

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

by David J. Anderson

This book is certainly about software development management, but it is also a book about business. Managers can no longer afford to discuss these two topics independently. This book is meant to eliminate the seat-of-the-pants intuition and rough approximations that have been far too prevalent in software development management. The growing popularity of agile methods has shown that a healthy balance between... (more)

The Machine That Changed the World : The Story of Lean Production

The Machine That Changed the World : The Story of Lean Production

by James P. Womack, Daniel Roos

When The Machine That Changed the World was first published in 1990, Toyota was half the size of General Motors. Today Toyota is passing GM as the world's largest auto maker and is the most consistently successful global enterprise of the past fifty years. This management classic was the first book to reveal Toyota's lean production system that is the basis for its enduring success. Now reissued with a new... (more)

The Elegant Solution: Toyota's Formula for Mastering Innovation

The Elegant Solution: Toyota's Formula for Mastering Innovation

by Matthew E. May

"Toyota is becoming a double threat: the world's finest manufacturer and a truly great innovator . . . that formula, a combination of production prowess and technical innovation, is an unbeatable recipe for success." -- Fortune , February 2006 For the first time, an insider reveals the formula behind Toyota's unceasing quest to innovate and do more with less, a philosophy that has made it one of the ten most... (more)

Collaborating for Change: Gemba Kaizen

by Masaaki Imai

When it comes to making your business more profitable and successful, don't look to re-engineering for answers. A better way is to apply the concept of kaizen, which mean making simple, common-sense improvements and refinements to critical business processes.The result: greater productivity, quality, and profits achieved with minimal cost, time, and effort invested. In this book, you discover how to maximize the... (more)

Learning to See Version 1.3

by Mike Rother, John Shook

Value-stream mapping is an overarching tool that gives managers and executives a picture of the entire production process, showing both value and nonvalue-creating activities. Rather than taking a haphazard approach to lean implementation, value-stream mapping establishes a direction for the company. Value-stream maps are the blueprints for lean transformations and Learning to See is an easy-to-read, step-by-step... (more)

Theory of Constraints

by Eliyahu M. Goldratt

Theory of Constraints walks you through the crucial stages of a continuous program: the five steps of focusing; the process of change; how to prove effect-cause-effect; and how to invent simple solutions to complex problems. Equally important, the author reveals the devastating impact that an organization's psychology can have on the process of improvements. Theory of Constraints is a crucial document for... (more)

Lean Six Sigma Demystified

by Jay Arthur

This self-teaching guide is the fast and easy way to learn Lean Six Sigma-the revolutionary process and quality improvement methodology. You'll learn to analyze projects quickly, identify and eliminate waste, cut costs and grow revenue, and increase quality and efficiency. A 180-day trial version of Lean Six Sigma QI Macros for Excel will be available for download from the author's website.

Taiichi Ohno's Workplace Management

by Taiichi Ohno

This classic work by the founding father of the Toyota Production System returns to print in a new translation. Ohno delivers timeless lessons on how to effectively manage the gemba actual place or work. He relates stories from across his nearly 40 years of struggle to establish the Toyota Production System as both a mindset and supporting behaviors of constant improvement. In the book s 37 chapters, Ohno... (more)

The Squeeze: A Novel Approach to Business Sustainability

The Squeeze: A Novel Approach to Business Sustainability

by Gary A. Langenwalter

"The Squeeze" is a novel that relates the fight for survival of a small, family-owned, Midwest manufacturer. Barely breaking even, Brookings Manufacturing is feeling the "squeeze" even after five years of Lean implementation--from its competitors whose prices are 25% less, from employees with trust issues, from the bank who questions the company's ability to pay back loans, and from the EPA who is citing the... (more)

The Machine That Changed the World : The Story of Lean Production

by James P. Womack, Daniel I. Jones

Based on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's five-million-dollar, five-year study on the future of the automobile, a groundbreaking analysis of the worldwide move from mass production to lean production. Japanese companies are sweeping the world, and the Japanese auto industry soars above the competition. Drawing on their in-depth study of the practices of ninety auto assembly plants in seventeen... (more)

La Meta

by Eliyahu M. Goldratt

Leading Lean Software Development: Results Are not the Point (Addison-Wesley Signature Series)

Leading Lean Software Development: Results Are not the Point (Addison-Wesley Signature Series)

by Mary Poppendieck, Tom Poppendieck

Mary Poppendieck is a seasoned leader in operations and product development with more than thirty years of IT experience. She has led teams implementing solutions ranging from enterprise supply chain management to digital media, and built one of 3M's first Just-in-Time Lean production systems. She is now president of Poppendieck LLC, which specializes in bringing Lean techniques to software development. Tom... (more)

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by Mary Poppendieck

by James P. Womack, Daniel I. Jones

by Mary Poppendieck, Tom Poppendieck

by Jeffrey K. Liker

by Jeffrey K. Liker, David Meier

by Jamie Flinchbaugh

by James P. Womack, Daniel I. Jones

by Jeffrey K. Liker

by David J. Anderson

by James P. Womack, Daniel Roos

by Matthew E. May

by Masaaki Imai

by Mike Rother, John Shook

by Eliyahu M. Goldratt

by Jay Arthur

by Taiichi Ohno

by Gary A. Langenwalter

by James P. Womack, Daniel I. Jones

by Eliyahu M. Goldratt

by Mary Poppendieck, Tom Poppendieck