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A review by corrompido
The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development by Donald G. Reinertsen
4.0
Another work book, but one of the better ones I've read in a long time. It's a rather technical (lots of formulas and graphs,) look at alternative ways to manage product development.
In many ways, lots of software organizations are following some of the precepts here, but if nothing else the author offers a much more interesting mathematical model as to why those precepts are good than Scrum & Agile teachers normally do.
Another fascinating thing that this book did was talk about why Kanban (and Six Sigma,) are completely wrong for software development, but then lays out what parts of those process frameworks are still useful and why.
I loved the deep technical layout of how economic functions impact decisions in resource and time allocation. Part of the book seemed a little tacked on at the end, but otherwise lots of interesting stuff to think about in here.
In many ways, lots of software organizations are following some of the precepts here, but if nothing else the author offers a much more interesting mathematical model as to why those precepts are good than Scrum & Agile teachers normally do.
Another fascinating thing that this book did was talk about why Kanban (and Six Sigma,) are completely wrong for software development, but then lays out what parts of those process frameworks are still useful and why.
I loved the deep technical layout of how economic functions impact decisions in resource and time allocation. Part of the book seemed a little tacked on at the end, but otherwise lots of interesting stuff to think about in here.