ELY, CAMBRIDGESHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM, March 22, 2017 /EINPresswire.com/ -- IT Governance Publishing (ITGP), the world’s leading IT GRC publisher, is pleased to announce the publication of its latest title, Fundamentals of Assurance for Lean Projects: An overview for auditors and product teams by Christopher Wright.

Lean is a mindset rather than a methodology, a way of thinking based on practices, strategies, tools and methods that can be applied to maximise value and minimise waste while ensuring that processes achieve corporate goals.

It helps organisations in all sectors achieve their objectives by facilitating a long-term culture shift focusing on three fundamental areas: waste, customer value and continuous incremental improvement.

Product overview

Fundamentals of Assurance for Lean Projects explains the jargon and dispels the mystique surrounding Lean, providing readers with guidance and tips on performing audits or assurance reviews for Lean projects.

It describes how Lean fits with Agile and Kanban, and how it can be combined with Six Sigma to create an efficient, high-quality approach to any project, including software development and organisational change.

Topics covered include:

• The five main Lean principles and their significance.
• Tools used for root-cause analysis (the five whys and fishbone analysis).
• Defining and modelling customer value, and innovative responses to customer needs (the Kano model).
• Common causes of waste and how to improve flow.
• Customer pull and Kanban mechanisms to manage the associated flow of processing and information.
• The pursuit of perfection (Kaikaku and Kaizen) and total quality management (TQM).
• The application of Lean principles to software development.
• Practical suggestions for approaches to auditing.

As with all books in the Fundamentals Series, Fundamentals of Assurance for Lean Projects introduces the subject and includes references for those who would like to further investigate specific areas.

Fundamentals of Assurance for Lean Projects is available from IT Governance and all good booksellers in softcover, Adobe eBook and ePub formats:

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Fundamentals of Assurance for Lean Projects is part of the Fundamentals Series, co-published by IT Governance Publishing and Information Security Buzz.

Mihaela Jucan
IT Governance
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