Austin's Lean Software Community
Austin’s Lean Software community will be discussing and reviewing Donald Reinertsen’s book, “The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development”.
This book offers deep insights into both the good and bad of product development. It’s a book that challenges predominant beliefs about managing and executing development efforts. It challenges not only traditional product development, but also common misunderstandings and misapplications of Lean approaches and the translation of Lean Production theory to Lean Product Development.
The Principles of Product Development Flow is not a book written specifically for software product development, but through it we learn that the problems that continue to hamper software development are common to many product development professions. The author lays out a catalog of principles that help product development professionals to observe and recognize root problems, and to create a system of management and economics to support a healthy, functional product development system.
Donald Reinertsen is a Lean Product Development veteran, teacher, and featured speaker at the Lean Software and Systems Conference in 2010.
The book can be found at Amazon, as well as a number of popular online and local book stores.
Scott is a software product designer, developer, manager, and agile coach living in Austin, TX. He speaks at software industry conferences and teaches agile development practices and software production methodologies in workshops in the US, Canada, and Europe. Scott is the founder of the Lean Software Austin and AgileATX communities of software practitioners. He is the organizer of the Monospace, ALT.NET Open Space, and Continuous Improvement conferences in Austin, and has served as the content chairman for the agile development track at the DevTeach conferences, as well as the chairman of the INETA Speaker Committee. Scott is a recipient of Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional award.