It’s a long time that I don’t share thoughts regarding a book that I’ve read, but this time it’s totally worth the effort to write down this blog post.
I used to read between 15 to 20 books per year during my commuting time and I really enjoy the different points of views of the authors and it’s fascinating how the same topic can be treated in so many ways.
The book that caught my attention is called Leading Lean Software Development from Addison Wesley.
I read many books on Lean and Agile topics but this one, I’ve to say, it’s one of the best for people like me that works in software development with these methodologies.
I strongly believe that there isn’t a framework that could rule them all, so I love learn and try different approaches like Scrum, Kanban, Kaizen, Grows and many others outside there and catch the essence in order to use the best technique when I need it.
This book does exactly that, it’s not only emphasising the importance of Lean methodologies but it’s mixing Lean methodologies with software engineering practices and give many example how these techniques helped to succeed not only in the software industry but also in the “real world”.
The most stunning example is regarding how the Empire State Building was created in less than a year and how it’s possible to have the same efficiency in the software development!
There so many take aways inside Leading Lean Software Development book that it’s hard to share all of them, but I think it’s a great collection of my believes in the Lean and software development world.
For the first time I could say that I’m represented by a book!
It’s a MUST read book in my opinion and the most interesting part is that there is another book written by the same authors way more practical that I can’t wait to read: Implementing Lean Software Development.
I hope you’ll find the time to read them and if you want to share other books with great value just leave a comment
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“give many example how these techniques helped to succeed not only in the software industry but also in the real world”
Beautiful phrase my friend because many people speak of Lean methodologies but few people know how to apply them in practice.