Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash

Foreword

Kent Beck

Software development is a chain with many links, and improving overall effectiveness requires looking at the whole chain. This book is for people involved in software development—not just programmers, but also managers, sponsors, customers, testers, and designers. The principles presented here eventually affect everyone connected to the development of software. This book speaks to those of you who are ready to look at the big picture of development.

For ideas to have impact, they must be grounded in both theory and experience. By translating well-proven ideas from lean manufacturing, this book presents theory and practice and applies them to software development. Many of the fundamental problems with manufacturing are also ...