I just ordered Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit for Software Development Managers by Mary and Tom Poppendieck from Amazon. I found the reference from Software Development magazine and their netseminar happening Thursday, Sept 16 on the topic. I'm very interested in the title since (1) our manufacturing software leverages Lean Manufacturing principles and (2) I've worked with the manufacturing systems at 3M which is where the author takes credit for some of their manufacturing software. (I wonder how fast Amazon will ship this title.)
To be honest I'm leary of the title. “Lean” implies a large number of things in the manufacturing space and a number of the principles translate to development. I'm looking forward to this one, I'll read the book and post my thoughts shortly.