pklipp's review against another edition
4.0
What Mike has done is write three short books, each easily digested and valuable in its own right, which are tied together by the common thread of organizational values. In the first, he expands on his blog posts about the values that tie Kanban practices and principles neatly together into a single integrated whole, reminding me of the arguments for using ALL of the XP practices at a time when people were trying to pick and choose. The second "book" is a concise introduction of all of the most common models and tools used by Kanban practitioners. It's not exhaustive, but it's complete enough and it will save you having to read twenty other books to get a good overview of the conceptual toolkit we use. In the final "book" Mike does what all the other Kanban books do and that's tell you how to get started with Kanban. He does it neatly and elegantly, weaving in a systems thinking approach is a no-nonsense manner. I recommend it as a first read and I think all Kanban practitioners can find something valuable here regardless of their level of experience.
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