Review: The Art of Lean Software Development: A Practical and Incremental Approach
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What is Lean Software Development? Fortunately, that's an OK question to ask if you are reading this book. It's not written for developers who are well versed in "lean" or "agile" development. That's good for the rest of us. For instance, in my "day job" we are slowly moving towards a more Agile development model. I suppose if some folks around here weren't all that sure what "agile" meant, reading up on it would be helpful. That's the sort of role this book hopes to fill relative to "lean", with the understanding that the "pro-lean subculture" is well associated with Agile development.
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The book is lean. I mean that in the plain meaning of the word. It's a short book at only 142 pages and each of its nine chapters is less than 20 pages long. The idea, according to the Preface, is to avoid "padding our chapters with useless fluff". Like a string held taught between two tin cans or a tightly focused laser beam, the book attempts to describe the shortest distance between two points; between start and destination. Actually, the last sentence in the last chapter states, "Remember, Lean is a journey, not a destination", so I guess my review is already somewhat inaccurate. "Lean" then is the string or the laser beam. Full Story |
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