Patterns and Practices of Lean Software Development
Lean Thinking is a paradigm of production and can’t easily be reduced to a process recipe. The particular form of any Lean process will always depend upon the form of the product that is created by that process. However, any Lean process will realize a few essential principles. If we apply these Lean principles to software development, we may find some practices that express those principles in a way that is useful and sensible for the medium.