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Review – The Principles of Product Development Flow (Reinertsen)
The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development, by Donald Reinertsen. Celeritas Publishing, 2009. Lean product development can be looked at as flow-based product development. Reinertsen draws on a variety of areas (economics, queue theory, control theory, … Continue reading
Tagged coach, economics, lean, reviews, systems thinking
Review – Getting the Right Things Done
Getting the Right Things Done. Pascal Dennis. LEI, 2006.A lean thinking book about “strategy deployment” – planning and execution. It’s in the form of a story mixed with explanation. Touches on a variety of tools: “True North,” PDCA, catchball, A3s … Continue reading
Set-Based Concurrent Engineering
Set-based concurrent engineering: considering a solution as the intersection of a number of feasible parts, rather than iterating on a bunch of individual “point-based” solutions. Continue reading
Tagged design, lean, performance, XPlorations
Review – The Toyota Product Development System
The Toyota Product Development System, James M. Morgan and Jeffrey K. Liker, Productivity Press, 2006. Toyota's lean manufacturing system has had a lot of press, but lean influences their product development approach as well. This book emphasizes the system aspects … Continue reading
Review – Lean Solutions
Lean Solutions, James P. Womack and Daniel T. Jones. Free Press, 2005.These are the authors of The Machine that Changed the World. (The “machine” was lean production.) In this book, they expand on the idea of “lean consumption.” Their idea … Continue reading
The Roots of Lean – Kaizen
Training Within Industry as a source for lean ideas. Continue reading
Review – Product Development for the Lean Enterprise
Product Development for the Lean Enterprise, Michael N. Kennedy. Manning, 2004. Toyota’s lean manufacturing gets a lot of attention. But there’s also a Toyota approach to product development that’s less well known (though Mary Poppendieck does talk about it). This … Continue reading
Review – Office Kaizen
Office Kaizen: Transforming Office Operations into a Strategic Competitive Advantage, William Lareau. ASQ, 2003.This book applies lean ideas to office work. Many of its ideas will be familiar to people in agile, but applied in the non-software world: charters, daily … Continue reading
Push-Line/Pull-Line
Simulate the difference between batch and lean approaches. Continue reading
Review – Theory of Constraints
Theory of Constraints: What is this thing called Theory of Constraints, and how should it be implemented? Eliyahu Goldratt. North River Press, 1990.Let me give my rare thumbs down review (usually I just ignore the ones I don’t like). I … Continue reading
Lean Manufacturing and Software
Is writing software more like manufacturing cookies or more like designing cookie cutters? It’s easy to wish that we could develop software like a factory stamps out cookies, but software has a design or creation element that is missing in that analogy. Lean manufacturing is a different approach than a traditional assembly line, and offers some lessons for software development. Continue reading
Tagged lean, XPlorations
Review – Lean Software Development (Poppendieck and Poppendieck)
Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit. Mary Poppendieck and Tom Poppendieck. Addison-Wesley, 2003.This book considers software development from the perspective of lean manufacturing, as popularized by Toyota. In lean approaches, there is a sense in which there is a constant … Continue reading
Review – Thinking Beyond Lean
Thinking Beyond Lean, Michael A. Cusumano and Kentaro Nobeoka, Free Press, 1998. The subtitle is “How multi-project management is transforming product development at Toyota and other companies,” and that pretty much says what it is. Once you have lean approaches, … Continue reading
Review – Results from the Heart
Results from the Heart: How Mini-Company Management Captures Everyone’s Talents …, Kiyoshi Suzaki, Free Press, 2002. It’s kind of hard to classify this book. It’s from a lean manufacturing consultant, but it’s geared to the whole organization. Suzaki argues that … Continue reading