Agile
I’ve been an agile practitioner, in one form or another, since I discovered XP back in 2002.
Agile is not a methodology, or a tool, or magical dust you sprinkle on things to make it all better. It’s a transformative and holistic approach to software development that makes things suck less, if you’re ready to accept, embrace and commit to continuously improving.
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Books
- The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer
This book has been an eye-opener for me, a description of some of the approaches Toyota adopted when designing the Toyota Production System. Highly recommended.
- Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit
Tom and Mary Poppendieck are not only nice people, they have a huge breadth of experience in pushing lean concepts in software development.