Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Poppendieck, Mary.

 Implementing lean software development : from concept to cash / Mary Poppendieck, Tom Poppendieck.

     p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index.

 ISBN 0-321-43738-1 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 1. Computer softwareDevelopment. 2. Production management. I. Poppendieck, Thomas David. II. Title. QA76.76.D47P674 2006

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Dedication

                                To our parents:

                              John and Marge Brust

                                       and

                            Elmer and Ruth Poppendieck