Lean from the Trenches : Managing Large-Scale Projects with Kanban

From start to finish, you'll see what it takes to develop a successful agile project.Find out how the Swedish police combined XP, Scrum, and Kanban to modernize their department--and learn how you can apply those same principles to your own workplace.We start with an organization in desperate need of a new way of doing things and finish with a group of sixty, all working in sync to develop a scalable, complex system.You'll walk through the project step by step, from customer engagement, to the daily "cocktail party," version control, bug tracking, and release.In this honest look at what works--and what doesn't--you'll find out how to: * Make quality everyone's business, not just the testers. * Keep everyone moving in the same direction without micromanagement. * Use simple and powerful metrics to aid in planning and process improvement. * Balance between low-level feature focus and high-level system focus.You'll be ready to jump into the trenches yourself as you apply those same techniques to your own software development projects.