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Top 10 Lean/ Kanban Books for IT, Software and Knowledge Work!

Digite

This is the original book where David Anderson first laid down the definition of and guidance to the Kanban Method for software and knowledge work. This is the original book where David Anderson first laid down the definition of and guidance to the Kanban Method for software and knowledge work. By David J Anderson. By Mike Burrows.

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Basis of Estimating Software Development

Herding Cats

The estimating of software development is both straightforward and complex. Here are some resources that will provide guidance to produce credible software development estimates, in both traditional and agile domains. Software Sizing and Estimating: Mk II FPA , Charles Symons, John Wiley & Sons, 1991. Don't hear one?

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The Scrum Master Job (1): 4 Steps to Identify Suitable Employers or Clients

Scrum.org

The reasons for this are apparent, with software eating the world and the pace of innovation accelerating as the market-entry barriers of the technology sector are continuously lowered. This autonomy is mostly awarded within the product delivery organization to create software or other technology-related products and services.

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Don’t over-process your project management communications!

Kiron Bondale

I wrote an article in October 2015 describing how the eight forms of waste (a foundational lean tool) can affect project teams. An example of this might be a software developer who continues to refine the design or code for a module even when it successfully passes usability, functional and performance tests.

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What Does SPCT Mean and How Do I Become An SPCT?

Agilemania

He encountered SAFe ® in mid-2015 when he was discussing generic topics during a discussion with a mentor about a generic topic that led to Agility at scale and his experiments with it. Once the person gets certified as SPCT, then he will become a change agent in the organization’s lean agile transformation and implementation.

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Can scrum and agility be scaled and what’s the best way to do it?

Scrum.org

It’s ‘practical’ and in the books I was disappointed with the author’s ‘but in the real world’, ‘but in the real world’ and all this kind of stuff, making excuses almost everywhere, all over the book about why you can’t be agile and why you can’t be lean. It’s got lean agile in a box, which I don’t mean in a complimentary way.

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SwiftKanban/ SwiftESP for AKTs and KCPs

Digite

Based on the announcement made there by Lean Kanban, Inc. Given its origins in manufacturing and its applicability to not only software and IT but all other knowledge work, its appeal has been (and is) broad based. As a result of the collaboration between Digité and Lean Kanban, Inc.,

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