In this episode we interview Mary and Tom Poppendieck, authors of that great trilogy of books on Lean Software Development. Because of the lenght of the interview we decided to publish it in two parts, with the second half expected to be published in a week or so. In this first part we talk with Tom and Mary about Lean principles and how they apply to software development. We speak about Toyota, about innovation and startups, and Tom and Mary explain what is meant with set-based design.


This interview was recorded in an Amsterdam hotel lobby on the 26th of September 2010. Interview by @freekl and @mamersfo.


Audio post-production by @Mendelt.


Links for this podcast:

Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit (Mary and Tom Poppendieck) Published May 18, 2003 by Addison-Wesley Professional
Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash (Mary and Tom Poppendieck) Published September 17, 2006 by Addison-Wesley Professional
Leading Lean Software Development: Results Are not the Point (Mary and Tom Poppendieck) First edition published October 31, 2009 by Addison-Wesley Professional
Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation (James P. Womack and Daniel T. Jones) Second edition published June 10, 2003 by Free Press
Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Result (Mike Rother) Published August 4, 2009 by McGraw-Hill
Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard (Chip and Dan Heath) Published February 16, 2010 by Random House Canada
Cracking the Code of Effective Innovation: Organizational Size and Style Is Driving Innovation success Published June 2007 by Future Think LLC
Toyota’s Principles of Set-Based Concurrent Engineering (Durward K. Sobek II, Allen C. Ward and Jeffrey K. Liker) Published January 15, 1999 in MIT Sloan Management Review
Survive to Make Money or Make Money to Survive? (John Shook) Published December 4, 2008 by Lean Enterprise Institute
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (Daniel H. Pink) Published December 29, 2009 by Riverhead Hardcover
Hidden Value: How Great Companies Achieve Extraordinary Results with Ordinary People (Charles A. O'Reilly III and Jeffrey Pfeffer) Published August 2000 by Harvard Business Press
Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths And Total Nonsense: Profiting From Evidence-Based Management (Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton) Published Marc 1, 2006 by Harvard Business Press
Toyota’s Journey From Waterfall To Lean Software Development (Henrik Kniberg) Published 16 March, 2010 on Henrik Knibergs' blog
The Team Handbook (Scholtes, Joiner & Streibel) Published march 24, 2003, by Joiner/Oriel Inc

This podcast is in English - Deze podcast is in het Engels

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