Agile Project Management with Kanban (Developer Best Practices) 1st Edition

by Eric Brechner (Author)

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Use Kanban to maximize efficiency, predictability, quality, and value
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

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Eric Brechner is the development manager for Microsoft’s Xbox Engineering Services team. At Microsoft, he has also been development manager for Xbox.com, engineering learning and development, and Office Media Store. He has previously worked at Boeing, Silicon Graphics, Graftek, and Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The author of a book and blog on software best practices (as I. M. Wright), he holds eight patents and a Ph.D. in applied mathematics.

Series: Developer Best Practices
Paperback: 160 pages
Publisher: Microsoft Press; 1 edition (March 26, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0735698953
ISBN-13: 978-0735698956
Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 0.8 x 9 inches
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- #10 in Books > Business & Money > Management & Leadership > Quality Control & Management > Agile
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@orszewski

It is about good, old and infamous Project Management

April 1, 2015

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Agile Project Management with Kanban by Eric Brechner is very different from the last two books about Kanban I have had an opportunity to read recently (Kanban in Action and Kanban from the Inside). It is about good, old and infamous Project Management, something, what many Agile or Lean orthodox people call bad and dead. It briefly presents precise and actionable ways how to apply Kanban as a tool for organizations of different kind and size. Despite being written by a guy who worked for a huge product development organization (Xbox/Microsoft), the book manages to escape insanely popular trend of telling how to scale Kanban, just as consulting business suggests to scale Scrum or Agile. Instead it meets the reality of any software or product development teams, which do not work independently. It comes with an open letter to upper management, which needs to support evolution toward Kanban, as well as with questions and more important answers you may need to convince your peers, working with Waterfall or Scrum in the past.

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.

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Michael O'Flaherty

Very concise! Highly recommended!

September 26, 2015

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We had a supposed (certified) scrum master where I worked last but being my first experience with it, I was shocked how unproductive our processes were. After learning what scrum was supposed to be like, I realized how saying you practice scrum and doing scrum are two different things. Our bug tracking software (Fogbugz) included a Kanban board which got me interested in researching the subject which ultimately led to this wonderful book. After reading it, I have to admit I think this is going to be better than scrum. Can't wait to try it out. This book is highly recommended!

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Sam Fitting

Great Kanban book

July 26, 2017

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I did not think Kanban would apply to the company I am at, but I am completely convinced that Kanban is actually a big improvement over basic SCRUM. We find the folks learning Scrum keep turning SCRUM into some Agile looking waterfall by extending the sprints and slipping the delivery dates. This book shows in a very practical way how to implement and measure Kanban

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J M

A great intro and deep dive into Kanban in just a few pages.

September 26, 2016

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Eric's book is quite the intro to Kanban. We watched his talk on YouTube first and then purchased his book and eventually converted our whole team over to Kanban from SCRUM. We couldn't be happier with the results so far.

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Tom

Very good introduction to Kanban

May 11, 2017

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The book covers the basics and attempts to provide guidance for the move the the new methodology. It is easy to read, the writing enthusiastic and interesting examples are littered throughout the book. It doesn't try to be the single source of all knowledge for Kanban, but offers up recommendations if more detailes are needed, which I personally find refreshing.

If you are looking for a good introduction to the Kanban method, you have found the right book!

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Don Eitel

Four Stars

January 28, 2016

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Gives great justification for going to a more strict Kanban style over Scrum or other agile practices.

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Dan Heck

The next step for everyone!

July 13, 2016

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Kanban is the natural progression from waterfall through scrum to truly continuous flow of work. With clarity, practicality and attention to cultural resistance, he outlines the process we need in this post industrial, conversational based rather than thing based project world. Get on board!

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4Pugs

Good book on Kanban boards

November 12, 2017

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Short book but well written and provides some great examples.

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