Lean Product and Process Development
by Allen C. Ward, Ward, Allen, C. · first published 2007
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…worth spending time to do that thing. The way a Toyota executive put it was "A great car is made from lots of conflict". I'm not doing this approach justice in my description. I suggest just reading Lean Product and Process Development by Allen Ward. Lots of good ideas in it.
on “Software Development Waste” ↗…want to admit what their problem is: Weinberg, Secrets of Consulting. 7. How to structure organisations and processes to deliver maximum value: Reinertsen, Principles of Product Development Flow. Ward, Lean Product and Process Development. Womack, Machine That Changed the World. 8. How to innovate cheaply: Westrum, Sidewinder. 9. How to estimate things properly: Hubbard, How to Measure Anything. Tetlock, Superforecasting. Savage, The…
on “How I operated as a Staff engineer at Heroku (2020)” ↗…way too many books to recommend here, but perhaps some of the most relevant are - Deming's The New Economics, and Out of the Crisis, - Reinertsen's Principles of Product Development Flow, - Ward's Lean Product and Process Development.
on “Ask HN: Best books on managing software complexity?” ↗If you want someone to translate it to software for you, Reinertsen's Principles of Product Development Flow is about adapting the philosophy to knowledge work. Ward's Lean Product and Process Development is also a good take on those ideas.
on “Deming's Red Bead Experiment (2002)” ↗…a guru in applying lean/flow ideas to product development and teaches you to not blindly apply lean manufacturing ideas to development, but to adapt them to the economic conditions of development) - Lean Product and Process Development (an opinionated but very intriguing view on how product development should be done, with focus on building a learning organisation) ---- These next ones are a little less mandatory and not necessarily…
on “An epic treatise on scheduling, bug tracking, and triage (2017)” ↗Could you elaborate? Why is the contrast drawn here not the real division? EDIT: I figured it out. For anyone else who is confused, Allen C. Ward wrote Lean Product and Process Development, and the parent is saying that Ward is simply repackaging what W. E. Deming taught.
on “Handoff Waste and Taylorism” ↗