Agile Project Management with Kanban
Eric Brechner
Microsoft Press
<b>Use Kanban to maximize efficiency, predictability, quality, and value</b> <br>With Kanban, every minute you spend on a software project can add value for customers. One book can help you achieve this goal: <i>Agile Project Management with Kanban</i>.<br> <br>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.<br> <br>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.<br> <br>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.<br> <br> <b>Use Kanban techniques to:</b> <br> <ul> <li>Start delivering continuous value with your current team  and project</li> <li>Master five quick steps for completing work backlogs</li> <li>Plan and staff new projects more effectively</li> <li>Minimize work in progress and quickly adjust to change</li> <li>Eliminate artificial meetings and prolonged stabilization</li> <li>Improve and enhance customer engagement</li> <li>Visualize workflow and fix revealed bottlenecks</li> <li>Drive quality upstream</li> <li>Integrate Kanban into large projects</li> <li>Optimize sustained engineering (contributed by James Waletzky)</li> <li>Expand Kanban beyond software development</li> </ul> <br>