{"id":176,"date":"2006-08-21T13:32:33","date_gmt":"2006-08-21T20:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/176\/interview-with-mary-poppendieck"},"modified":"2016-11-14T04:01:24","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T09:01:24","slug":"interview-with-mary-poppendieck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/interview-with-mary-poppendieck\/176\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Mary Poppendieck and Role of Lean Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"a296a24fa2fc69ef5487857f02f111e8\" data-index=\"9\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Single Post readerboard -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:728px;height:90px\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8207522353004717\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1144967431\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Mary Poppendieck was gracious enough to agree to an interview. She brought the concept of Lean to Agile and is a thought leader in the Agile\/Lean for Software space. She is the co-author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?link_code=ur2&amp;tag=sixsigma09-20&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;location=%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2F0321150783%2Fsr%3D8-1%2Fqid%3D1156191326%2Fref%3Dpd_bbs_1%3Fie%3DUTF8\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit for Software Development Managers (Paperback)<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?link_code=ur2&amp;tag=sixsigma09-20&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;location=%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2F0321437381%2Fsr%3D8-2%2Fqid%3D1156191326%2Fref%3Dpd_bbs_2%3Fie%3DUTF8\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash (Paperback)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Be sure to read our other <a title=\"interviews with leaders series\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/leadership-interviews-innovation-thought-leaders\/\">interviews in our leadership series<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My plan is to collect a series of questions from my readers. A subset of these Mary will graciously answer and I&#8217;ll post the entire Q&amp;A here on shmula. I will stop accepting question on August 25, 2006 and I will post the interview on August 28, 2006 <sup class='footnote'><a href='#fn-176-1' id='fnref-176-1' onclick='return fdfootnote_show(176)'>1<\/a><\/sup>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Here are Mary Poppendieck&#8217;s other responses to readers&#8217; questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"mary poppendieck, lean for software\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/ask-mary-poppendieck-anything\/444\/\">Original Article to Ask Mary Poppendieck Anything<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"mary poppendieck answers readers questions on lean for software\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/lean-for-software\/401\/\">Mary Poppendieck&#8217;s Answers to ALL Readers&#8217; Questions<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"lean deployment, lean transformation, top down, bottom up\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/poppendieck-should-lean-be-top-down-or-bottom-up\/448\/\">Should Lean be Top-down or Bottom-up?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"what is lean for software with Mary Poppendieck\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/lean-for-software-interview-with-mary-poppendieck\/340\/\">An Interview with Mary Poppendieck with Pete Abilla<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"mary poppendieck, agile, handoff, waste\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/poppendieck-on-waste-the-handoff\/447\/\">Mary Poppendieck on the Handoff and Waste<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<div class='footnotes' id='footnotes-176'>\n<div class='footnotedivider'><\/div>\n<ol>\n<li id='fn-176-1'> <a title=\"leadership interviews pete abilla\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/leadership-interviews-innovation-thought-leaders\/\">Read More Leadership Interviews<\/a> <span class='footnotereverse'><a href='#fnref-176-1'>&#8617;<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Poppendieck was gracious enough to agree to an interview. 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