A question was posted on the leanagile Yahoo! group:
I am looking for some reading recommendations about Lean that are NOT the "Implementing Lean Software Development" or "Lean Software Development" - I have already read those. I am looking for the books you read after you have read those two books.
And an ensuing discussion took place. Below is a summary of 24 of the recommendations made by members of the group:
| Title | Category | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Toyota Way and The Toyota Way Fieldbook | Lean Production | Were recommended as good starting points although there was some feedback saying it was too superficial. |
| Toyota Production System | Lean Production | By Taiichi Ohno. |
| Managing the Design Factory | Product Development | |
| Creating a Lean Culture | Management | |
| Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit, Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash, and Leading Lean Software Development | Software Development | The Poppendieck books. The third book still a draft with parts available on their website. |
| Managing to Learn | A3 management Process | |
| Lean-Thinking, Lean Solutions, The Machine that Changed the World | Lean Production | Womack-Jones books. |
| Kaikaku the power and magic of lean and The Idea Generator: Kaizen | Norman Bodek books. | |
| The Art of Creative Thinking | ||
| Jit is Flow | ||
| Chasing the Rabbit | ||
| Product Development for the Lean Enterprise and Ready, Set, Dominate | Product Development | Michael Kennedy's two books. |
| The Goal | Theory of Constraints | |
| Results from the Heart: How Mini-Company Management Captures Everyone's Talents | by Kiyoshi Suzaki and His Holiness the Dalai Lama. | |
| The Elegant Solution | ||
| Out of the Crisis | Predecessor to Lean, JIT, Theory of Constraints, etc... | W. Edwards Demming |
| Scaling Lean and Agile | Software development |
An attempt to categorize the different books has been made by this reporter, who is by no means a Lean expert. Let us know what you think of these recommendations, and if you feel strongly about one or more of the recommendations, then please share with the community.