Strategy, discovery, metrics, growth, pricing, design, delivery and leadership. Each entry says when it is the right one to pick up.
Skelton and Pais give four team types of stream aligned, enabling, complicated subsystem and platform, and three interaction modes of collaboration, X as a service and facilitating.
A novel in which a manager is kidnapped and set to run software projects in a fictional country, a device that lets DeMarco test management ideas as plot rather than as advice.
The practical companion to The Phoenix Project, organised around the three ways of flow, feedback and continual learning. The flow section covers deployment pipelines, automated testing, low risk release patterns and the architecture that lets teams deploy independently of each other.
A novel about a plant manager given three months to save his factory, and the book that carried the theory of constraints to a wide audience. The five focusing steps run through the plot, showing how to identify the constraint …
A short definition of Kanban as a strategy for optimising the flow of value through a system, maintained independently of any one training body. It defines the workflow a team makes explicit, the three practices of visualising the …
Brooks drew on running the OS/360 project at IBM and wrote the essays that gave the field Brooks's law, the observation that adding people to a late project makes it later.
A novel about an IT manager given ninety days to save a failing project, used as a vehicle for the Three Ways of flow, feedback and continual learning. The Theory of Constraints runs underneath, with the plot turning on identifying the bottleneck and subordinating everything to it.
Reinertsen sets out a large collection of numbered principles for managing the flow of product development work, grounded in queueing theory, economics and control theory.
The companion volume to Site Reliability Engineering, written to answer the question of how to put the ideas into practice. Where the first book describes how Google runs production, this one gives worked examples of service level …
Cohn's book on writing and working with user stories. Covers the card, conversation and confirmation model, the INVEST criteria for a good story, gathering stories through interviews, questionnaires, observation and workshops, and writing acceptance tests.
Patton's method arranges stories in a two dimensional map. The narrative flow of user activity runs across the top, the detail of each activity sits beneath it, and horizontal slices become releases.
Martin and Osterling treat value stream mapping as a leadership activity rather than a lean tool, and structure the book around running a mapping exercise from end to end.