<b>Use Kanban to maximize efficiency, predictability, quality, and value</b><br><br>With Kanban, every minute you spend on a software project can add value for customers. One book can help you achieve this goal:<i>Agile Project Management with Kanban</i>.<br><br>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.<br><br>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, transitioning from Scrum or traditional Waterfall, and more.<br><br>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.<br><br>Use Kanban techniques to:<br><ul><li>Start delivering continuous value with your current team and project </li><li>Master five quick steps for completing work backlogs </li><li>Plan and staff new projects more effectively </li><li>Minimize work in progress and quickly adjust to change </li><li>Eliminate artificial meetings and prolonged stabilization </li><li>Improve and enhance customer engagement </li><li>Visualize workflow and fix revealed bottlenecks </li><li>Drive quality upstream </li><li>Integrate Kanban into large projects </li><li>Optimize sustained engineering (contributed by James Waletzky) </li><li>Expand Kanban beyond software development </li></ul>