false 5247677 1 <P style="MARGIN: 0px"><B>Lean Development and Agile Methods for Large-Scale Products: Key Thinking and Organizational Tools for Sustainable Competitive Success </B></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">Increasingly, large product-development organizations are turning to lean thinking, agile principles and practices, and large-scale Scrum to sustainably and quickly deliver value and innovation. However, many groups have floundered in their <I>practice-oriented </I>adoptions. Why? Because without a deeper understanding of the <I>thinking tools </I>and profound <I>organizational redesign </I>needed, it is as though casting seeds on to an infertile field. Now, drawing on their long experience leading and guiding large-scale lean and agile adoptions for large, multisite, and offshore product development, and drawing on the best research for great team-based agile organizations, internationally recognized consultant and best-selling author Craig Larman and former leader of the agile transformation at Nokia Networks Bas Vodde share the key thinking and organizational tools needed to plant the seeds of product development success in a fertile lean and agile enterprise.</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">Coverage includes  </P> <UL> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Lean thinking and development combined with agile practices and methods</DIV></LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Systems thinking</DIV></LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Queuing theory and large-scale development processes</DIV></LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Moving from single-function and component teams to stable cross-functional cross-component Scrum feature teams with end-to-end responsibility for features </DIV></LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Organizational redesign to a lean and agile enterprise that delivers value fast</DIV></LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Large-scale Scrum for multi-hundred-person product groups</DIV></LI></UL> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">In a competitive environment that demands ever-faster cycle times and greater innovation, applied lean thinking and agile principles are becoming an urgent priority. <B><I><B>Scaling Lean & Agile Development </B></I></B>will help leaders create the foundation for their lean enterprise–and deliver on the significant benefits of agility. </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">In addition to the <I>foundation </I>tools in this text, see the companion book <I><B><I>Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Large, Multisite, and Offshore Product Development with Large-Scale Scrum </I></B></I>for complementary <I>action </I>tools.</P> 5314977 22 12 2008 Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Thinking and Organizational Tools for Large-Scale Scrum (Agile Software Development Series) total:2|5:1|4:1| 2 9 11 1 5 0 false false Fri Mar 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jan 28 18:41:26 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 15 17:45:02 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Wed Aug 12 06:25:33 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 06:25:33 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Aug 07 11:46:40 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 07 11:46:40 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Jul 25 16:02:57 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 25 16:02:57 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Jun 02 16:25:35 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 02 16:25:35 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun May 03 19:17:04 -0700 2009 Sun May 03 19:17:04 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Apr 23 09:48:58 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 23 09:49:37 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Apr 18 16:37:32 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 18 16:37:32 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Mar 17 15:53:42 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 17 15:53:42 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Mar 05 22:47:35 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 05 22:47:35 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Thu Jan 22 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 22 21:14:41 -0800 2009 Mon Apr 06 13:17:48 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=5247677