Additional Resources

Derby, Esther and Diana Larsen. 2006. Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great. This is a resource on conducting Agile retrospectives.

Hammarberg, Marcus and Joakim Sundén. 2014. Kanban in Action. A good introduction to Kanban in a software context.

Poppendieck, Mary and Tom. 2006. Implementing Lean Software Development. This is another software-focused introduction to Lean/Kanban.

Oosterwal, Dantar P. 2010. The Lean Machine: How Harley-Davidson Drove Top-Line Growth and Profitability with Revolutionary Lean Product Development. This book describes a case study of turning around Harley-Davidson’s product development efforts through an application of Lean.

McConnell, Steve. 2011. What does 10x mean? “Measuring Variations in Programmer Productivity.” This chapter in Making Software: What Really Works, and Why We Believe It describes the variations in individual developer productivity and provides more detail about the challenges of measuring it in a commercial setting.

McConnell, Steve. 2016. “Measuring Software Development Productivity” online webinar. This webinar provides more detail on measuring team productivity.