Lean vs Agile vs Design Thinking

What You Really Need to Know to Build High-Performing Digital Product Teams

By: Jeff Gothelf

Narrated by: Mike Norgaard

As companies evolve to adopt, integrate, and leverage software as the defining element of their success in the 21st century, a rash of processes and methodologies are vying for their product teams' attention. In the worst of cases, each discipline on these teams - product management, design, and software engineering - learn a different model. This short, tactical book reconciles the perceived differences in Lean Startup, Design Thinking, and Agile software development by focusing not on rituals and practices but on the values that underpin all three methods.

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Good idea for a book, bad execution.

This book is remarkably short and lacks substance. While the idea of comparaing and finding a synthesis of all three methdologies, the reality is that the book falls short of explaining the how. All in all, great idea but there is not enough material in the book to warrant its price tag and the idea of synthesis is not in depth enough for anyone who is already in the field currently.

Makes difficult concepts very simple to understand

He explains concepts very well. Makes it easy to understand and explain to others. I would recommend this to any organization planning to implement scaled agile framework.

straight to the point executive summary

straight to the point executive summary helps introduce the topics to those coming from classic management

good overview but fails to distinguish

I liked the quick overview and I think the author is knowledgeable in the concepts. I was hoping for a more deeper explanation on the topics. I have read many books on each topic too quickly so all the concepts have merged into one single perspective. I needed to understand how to distinguish one from another and this book was not the one for that. he does a good job of explaining how they work together though. his 10 step process is not a revelation but decent start point.

bottom line: if you want a real quick overview this is worth it.

Quick but accurate reflection of common problems

good introductions to concepts and goals of lean/agile/design thinking; good overview of how these world views conflict in actual making of software. A bit hamfisted on metaphors or examples, and a bit out of touch with more technical descriptions (misunderstanding of 'devops' in my mind, but to little consequence or detriment.)

Very short read, may be best when you have quite a few credits stacked up, or are really itching for a quick overview of concepts. It's short length has also served very well in making it approachable to recommending to others, and great tool for putting people on same page before discussing concepts or proposed process changes.