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Lean Software Development is a translation of lean manufacturing principles and practices to the software development domain.

Mary and Tom Poppendieck are the authors of "Lean Software Development - An Agile Toolkit for Software Development Managers". This book presents a set of 22 "tools". Tools which will be relatively unfamiliar to people involved with agile software development include:

  • Seeing Waste
  • Value Stream Mapping
  • Set-Based Development
  • Pull Systems
  • Queuing Theory
  • Motivation
  • Measurements