I just received a new book with a copyright date of 2007, “Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash,” by Mary and Tom Poppendieck (Addison-Wesley Professional).

Fannie Mae did. Vice-president of development services Michael Garcia credits lean, a quality improvement philosophy focused on maximizing customer value while minimizing waste.

According to “The Art of Lean Software Development,” which I discussed last month, Toyota has been practicing Kaizen for 50 years and is still implementing tens of thousands of improvements ...

The book explains, in simple terms, what Lean is -- and what Lean isn’t -- enabling office professionals to understand how it can be successfully applied to their complex office-based work ...