Book Series

Implementing Lean Software Development: From the concept to cash | Book Series

Overview:

The book is a sequel to Mary and Tom Poppendieck’s ‘Lean Software Development’ book which introduced the innovative development techniques and lean principles to deliver unprecedented agility and value. This new sequel is a handbook that shows exactly how to implement lean software development along with hands-on exercises.  The author presents case studies of some of the leading organizations, which helps you to kick-start your lean initiatives.

You will learn:

  • Manage, extend, nourish and leverage agile practices in your team
  • Build true development teams
  • To drive quality throughout the team by rapid feedbacks

This book is a necessary guide or requisite to anyone who works as a Project Managers, Team Leaders, Senior developers, and Architects.

Authors:

Mary Poppendieck, Tom Poppendieck

Published In:

2006

Knowledge Based Work | Glossary

 

Definition

Work whose primary nature involved an application of a for of knowledge, is known as Knowledge Based Work. The philosophy behind this line of work is ‘thinking for a living’ and includes aspects like creativity,research and problem solving. People who are employed under ‘Knowledge Based Work’ are generally engineers, doctors, publicists, accountants,design thinkers, amongst other examples.

Further Reading

  • “Journal of Knowledge Economy”(book), edited by Elias G. Carayannis
  • For more on Information Radiators, read here and here.