Lessons in Agile Management: On the Road to Kanban
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| Rating | : | 4.61 (922 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0985305126 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 426 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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David J. . David is a founder of Lean-Kanban University, a business dedicated to assuring quality of training in Lean and Kanban throughout the world. David is the author of two books, "Kanban – Successful Evolutionary Change for your Technology Business" and "Agile Management for Software Engineering &ndash
Evolution of a Methodology This book is more about context and one persons journey towards developing and learning an agile methodology. It is a curation of many writings and posts over the last 10+ years. I think it was useful and I took some positive things out of it.However, it took me awhile to adjust to the idea that I was reading dated thoughts by the author, which was then followed up by an update stating "this is how my thinking ha. Dick van Vlooten said A lovely view in his thinking , great leasons to apply now. Good : both practical as well as personal. Good entrypoint for even more reading and studying.Not so good: obviously it is a collection of blogs.AndIt is a good description if the thoughts and thinking of that time. A lot more thinking has taken place since then. To be found elsewhere. A bit confusing because they are old articles Anderson wrote Deryl Spielman A bit confusing because they are old articles Anderson wrote on his way to Kanban and are not the methodologies to follow. It's really neat to see how he arrived at Kanban. However, read the blue book.
Edwards Deming, Human Resource Departments and Policies, Agile, Lean and Leading Change Initiatives. David J. Each article has been carefully selected and grouped into one of 16 chapters on topics such as Leadership, Management, Peter Drucker, Theory of Constraints and Eli Goldratt, W. Each chapter is introduced with contemporary commentary explaining its relevance and contribution to both Agile and Kanban.This book might have been titled, "The Very Best of Agile Management Blog" but that would do it an injustice. Each article has been lovingly reworked from the original to provide a coherent flowing story that introduces both the need for Kanban and how it emerged as a leading method for improving agility in knowledge work organizations. Anderson describes this collection as "The Missing Link in the Evolution of Kanban." Anderson developed the Kanban Method over years spent managing and coaching Agile development teams, at companies such as Sprint, Motorola and Microsoft, by integrating Lean thinking with Agile principles and practices. Many articles are enhanced with new observations and reflection on how the Agile communit
David is the author of two books, "Kanban – Successful Evolutionary Change for your Technology Business" and "Agile Management for Software Engineering – Applying the Theory of Constraints for Business Results". David is a founder of Lean-Kanban University, a business dedicated to assuring quality of training in Lean and Kanban throughout the world. About the Author David J. He leads a consulting, training and publishing business dedicated to developing, promoting and implementing sustainable evolutionary approaches for management of knowledge workers. He has 30 years experience in the high technology industry starting with computer games in the early 1980’s. He has led software teams