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Agile Project Management with Kanban (Developer Best Practices) 1st Edition
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With Kanban, every minute you spend on a software project can add value for customers. One book can help you achieve this goal: Agile Project Management with Kanban.
Author Eric Brechner pioneered Kanban within the Xbox engineering team at Microsoft. Now he shows you exactly how to make it work for your team.
Think of this book as “Kanban in a box”: open it, read the quickstart guide, and you’re up and running fast. As you gain experience, Brechner reveals powerful techniques for right-sizing teams, estimating, meeting deadlines, deploying components and services, adapting or evolving from Scrum or traditional Waterfall, and more.
For every step of your journey, you’ll find pragmatic advice, useful checklists, and actionable lessons. This truly is “Kanban in a box”: all you need to deliver breakthrough value and quality.
Use Kanban techniques to:
- Start delivering continuous value with your current team and project
- Master five quick steps for completing work backlogs
- Plan and staff new projects more effectively
- Minimize work in progress and quickly adjust to change
- Eliminate artificial meetings and prolonged stabilization
- Improve and enhance customer engagement
- Visualize workflow and fix revealed bottlenecks
- Drive quality upstream
- Integrate Kanban into large projects
- Optimize sustained engineering (contributed by James Waletzky)
- Expand Kanban beyond software development
- ISBN-100735698953
- ISBN-13978-0735698956
- Edition1st
- PublisherMicrosoft Press
- Publication dateMarch 16, 2015
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions7.3 x 0.55 x 8.95 inches
- Print length160 pages
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- Publisher : Microsoft Press; 1st edition (March 16, 2015)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 160 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0735698953
- ISBN-13 : 978-0735698956
- Item Weight : 9.2 ounces
- Dimensions : 7.3 x 0.55 x 8.95 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #324,954 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #21 in Microsoft Project Guides
- #49 in Agile Project Management
- #543 in Software Development (Books)
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About the author

Eric Brechner is a career coach for underrepresented midcareer software professionals and founder of Ally for Onlys in Tech. He is widely known within the engineering community as his alter ego, I.M. Wright. Eric has been coaching development leads, managers, architects, experts, students, and his own employees for over 25 years. After teaching at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the University of Washington, and being a Microsoft development lead and development manager, Eric became Microsoft’s first full-time Development Manager & Leads Coach in 2001. At one point, he had coached one-third of all dev leads and half of all dev managers at Microsoft. Many became directors, distinguished engineers, and even corporate vice presidents. Eric went on to become the Microsoft Director of Engineering Learning and Development, before returning to his favorite role as a development manager.
Eric has been a Microsoft development manager or lead for DevDiv (makers of Visual Studio), Office, Xbox, Windows, and Azure. Before joining Microsoft in 1995, Eric was a senior principal scientist at The Boeing Company, where he worked in the areas of large-scale visualization, computational geometry, network communications, data-flow languages, and software integration. He was the principal architect of FlyThru, the walk-through program for the 20-gigabyte, 500+ million-polygon model of the Boeing 777 aircraft.
Eric has also worked in computer graphics and CAD for Silicon Graphics, GRAFTEK, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. During high school summers, Eric wrote finance software for Bank Leumi in New York. He holds eight patents, has written two books, earned a B.S. and M.S. in mathematics and a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and was a certified performance technologist. Eric is widely known within the engineering community as his alter ego, I.M. Wright, and is an affiliate professor at the University of Washington’s Bothell campus.
Outside work, Eric is a husband and proud father of two sons. His appreciation for disability issues in the workplace is personal. Eric has dyslexia, and his younger son has autism. He works on autism insurance benefits and serves on the University of Washington Autism Center advisory board. In the few remaining minutes of his day, Eric enjoys going to Seattle Mariners games and reading psychology, economics, and science fiction books.
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You won't find here too many details about theories behind Lean and Kanban, but just enough to know where to look for it and why things work better this way. The author, moreover, offers ready-to-use Excel sheets, to calculate just a few, but super important numbers and metrics for your team, so you can track some KPIs and improve based on real data, not just your gut feeling. In the end there’s a big chance your gut feelings will be consistent with data trends, and Kanban will guide you to better predictability, less waste and rework, more evenness and joy of work.
If you are looking for a good introduction to the Kanban method, you have found the right book!
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Eric writes in an authoritative and witty style that demonstrates his deep experience with this invaluable work management tool. Delightful and informative.

A very great book if you are someone like me, who I am starting to explore the product management right now, but I believe it contains many tips that could be useful not just for beginners.


Can't wait to trial this methodology in my company. Thank you so much Eric!
