Lean Software Development Resources

[last update: 27-April-2007]

For a colleague at work, I compiled a list of resources covering Lean principles & practices, their integration with Six Sigma and/or Agile development methods, and the application of Lean to software development. I thought others might find it useful, so here it is ...

Books:

• Agile Management for Software Engineering, by David J. Anderson, Prentice-Hall PTR, September 2003

• Lean Software Development: an Agile Toolkit, by Mary & Tom Poppendieck, Addison-Wesley, October 2005 in The Agile Software Development Series
• Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash, by Mary & Tom Poppendieck, Addison-Wesley, September 2006 in The Addison-Wesley Signature Series
• Lean Software Strategies: Proven Techniques for Managers and Developers, by Peter Middleton & James Sutton, May 2005 by Productivity Press
  
• Managing the Design Factory, by Donald G. Reinertsen, The Free Press, New York, 1997
• Product Development for the Lean Enterprise, by Michael N. Kennedy, Oakela Press, 2003
  

Presentations:

• Lean Project Management, by David J. Anderson
• Agile Management for Software Engineering, by David J. Anderson
• Managing Lean Software Development with Cumulative Flow Diagrams, by David Anderson
• Lean Manufacturing and the Theory of Constraints – Focusing Lean, by Eric Gowland
• Lean Accounting & Throughput Accounting, Peter Milroy
• Lean Six Sigma - Benefits beyond CMMI L3, Nancy POMA, EDS, October 2006
  
• Software and Lean: Like Chocolate & Cranberries, by James S. Sutton, STSC 2005 Proceedings
• Lean Software Development, by Dr Christoph Stiendl, 2004
  
• Lean Thinking: The Theory behind Agile Software Development, by Mary Poppendieck, 2002
• Implementing Lean Software Development (Practitioner’s Course), Mary Poppendieck, November 2006
• Competing on the basis of Speed, 1hr video presentation to Google by Mary Poppendieck
  
• Other talks by Mary Poppendieck at http://www.poppendieck.com/events.htm

Articles/Papers:

• Business Process Management: What's Driving Toyota?, Baseline magazine, September 2006
• Agile Product Development: Managing Development Flexibility in Uncertain Environments, by Stefan Thomke and Donald Reinertsen, California Management Review 40, no. 1 (fall 1998): 8-30
• Managing Lean Software Development with Cumulative Flow Diagrams, by David J. Anderson
• Agile Software Management Accounting for Systems, by David J. Anderson
• Agile Software Management: Dealing with Uncertainty, by David J. Anderson
• The Lean-Agile Connection: Developing Quality Software Efficiently by Alan Shalloway
• Introducing the Integrated Theory by Dan Rawsthorne and Alan Shalloway
• Whitepaper: Agile Work Uses Lean Thinking, Whitepaper by Mishkin Berteig
• Business Performance Through Lean Six Sigma : Linking The Knowledge Worker, The Twelve Pillars, And Baldrige / by James T. Schutta
• Introducing Lean Software Development, by the Lean Software Institute
• Lean Six Sigma and High-Performance Organizations Combined, by Tom Devane (book excerpt)
• Lean Thinking. Protein-based dietary fad or Management’s New Testament?, BPM Europe
• Bringing Lean Systems Thinking to Six Sigma, by Paul Mullenhour and Jamie Flinchbaugh, 2005
• Lean Software Delivery with the IBM Rational Solution, by Clay Nelson, The Ratioinal Edge, October 2006
• TOC and Lean, Iowa State University Center for Industrial Research and Service
• Lean Thinking for Process Improvement, part 2 of a three part series by bizmanuals.com
• Six Sigma and Lean Manufacturing, by Michael Baudin
• Agile vs Lean Software Develompent
  
• Lean articles at isixsigma.com
• How to Compare Six Sigma, Lean and the Theory of Constraints, by Dave Nave, Quality Progress, March 2002
• Software Development Convergence: Six Sigma-Lean-Agile, by David Hallowell
• Design for Six Sigma and Lean Manufacturing, by Praveen Gupta, 2001

Websites / Blogs:

• Tom & Mary Poppendieck’s home page at http://www.poppendieck.com/
• David Anderson's Agile Management website at http://www.agilemanagement.net/
  
• Lean Enterprise Wiki search engine: http://lean-enterprise-swicki.eurekster.com/
• http://www.leansoftwareinstitute.com/
• http://leaninsider.productivitypress.com/
• http://www.lean.org/
• http://www.evolvingexcellence.com/
• http://www.leansoftwareengineering.com/
  
• Lean blogger Pete Shmula at http://www.shmula.com/has lots of nice blog-entries/articles on aspects of Lean
• NetObjectives Lean Software Resources at http://www.netobjectives.com/resources/lean
  
• Lean manufacturing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia