Product Development Flow
By Donald Reinertsen
Reinertsen's book shares 175 principles of product development that challenge all conventional wisdom of how software products are built. The principles of product development flow draw on insights from Lean Manufacturing as well as examples from the Telecommunications and Computer Operating Systems industries. He identifies a dozen fatal flaws that plague existing product development, beginning with a failure to properly identify and quantify the economics of development cycles, and outlines how to address these issues.