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 projectMaster five quick steps for completing work backlogsPlan and staff new projects more effectivelyMinimize work in progress and quickly adjust to changeEliminate artificial meetings and prolonged stabilizationImprove and enhance customer engagementVisualize workflow and fix revealed bottlenecksDrive quality upstreamIntegrate Kanban into large projectsOptimize sustained engineering (contributed by James Waletzky)Expand Kanban beyond software development