Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change For Your Technology Business (2010) - Plot & Excerpts
The book is quite long and difficult to read, at least at the beginning. Second half of book was flying on other way. I would defo recommend the book to anyone who has interest in agile method, precisely for Kanban.Ok, first half is about the story of using Kanban in of Microsoft remote team down in India. It has eventually success and it works well for them, but it just took to long at the book.Second half of book is about the outcome of Kanban usage with this team. The rules, examples of usage, advises, all good stuff.Just for myself: need to read the second part again. I'd gotten concerned with our existing SCRUM/XP process so I picked up this book and started thinking about moving to a new Agile method.To start with as a contrast to the Lean Startup this bok contained a lot less hyperbole. Which is just great. The book uses a number of examples for its points that come from a range of situations. The chapter on management reports is great as is the discussion about variability. There's also a fair amount of practicality, particularly in discussing the speed of the journey to the kaizen culture the author espouses.However, I didn't get a great sense of the author's enthusiasm for the subject and some of the analogies are laboured (the road analogy drew out for far too long). Also there was a fair bit of jam tomorrow which made the book feel less authoritative than it should. But they're not massive issues, if you're looking to improve your development process there's a lot to like in this book.
What do You think about Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change For Your Technology Business (2010)?
This is the best book I've read on Kanban, and it's very tactical and directly useful.
—kylelynn15
Lots of good implementable ideas. Bought several for my staff.
—zed
Excellent. Must read for someone starting on the Kanban journey
—ceciliafasano
