Biography
Mary Poppendieck started her career as a process control programmer, moved on to manage the IT department of a manufacturing plant, and then ended up in product development.
Mary considered retirement 1998, but instead found herself managing a government software project where she first encountered the word waterfall. When Mary compared her experience in successful software and product development to the prevailing opinions about how to manage software projects, she decided the time had come for a new paradigm. She wrote the award-winning book Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit in 2003 to explain how the lean principles from manufacturing offer a better approach to software development.
Books
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Leading Lean Software Development: Results are Not the Pointby Mary Poppendieck and Tom PoppendieckBuilding on their breakthrough bestsellers Lean Software Development and Implementing Lean Software Development, Mary and Tom Poppendieck’s latest book shows software leaders and team members exactly how to drive high-value change throughout a software organisation - and make it stick. They go far beyond generic implementation guidelines, demonstrating exactly how to make lean work in real projects, environments, and companies. Also available: ebook edition
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Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cashby Mary Poppendieck and Tom PoppendieckThis book draws on the Poppendiecks’ unparalleled experience helping development organisations optimize the entire software value stream. You’ll discover the right questions to ask, the key issues to focus on, and techniques proven to work. The authors present case studies from leading-edge software organisations, and offer practical exercises for jumpstarting your own Lean initiatives. |
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Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkitby Mary Poppendieck and Tom PoppendieckThis is a book of thinking tools for software development leaders. It is a tool kit for translating generally accepted lean principles into effective agile practices that fit your unique environment. Lean thinking has a long history of generating dramatic improvements in fields as diverse as manufacturing, health care and construction. Also available: ebook edition
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