Ram Charan is a fascinating business consultant with decades of experience dispensing advice to the leaders of many of the world's largest and most influential companies. I recently added this book to my personal collection and was excited to get the opportunity to read it. While the book is geared towards CEO's and other high level management types, there is plenty of advice in the book for anyone who wants to understand how to be more effective in the business world.
Sub-titled "From Concept to Cash" this book from the Poppendiecks explores in detail what it takes for software development teams to take a concept and turn it into a working solution for the customer in an Agile manner. They start with a brief history of Lean production concepts and then delve into the Principles of Lean as applied to software development. The core of the book digs deep into very practical methods of converting a more "traditional" approach to software development into a "lea