Marcus Hammarberg

Marcus has approached the Lean and kanban communities from a developer’s perspective and has a strong interest in the practices that make these ideas work in the wild: test-driven development, pair programming, specification by example, and impact mapping, among others.

When he has time, he can be found blogging or at the Salvation Army or reading up on the latest brass-band news. Trying to incorporate much of that into work-related situations is both hard and pretty much useless, as you can probably imagine.

Marcus is married to Elin, and they have three boys (5, 3, and 3 years old[1]). By the time you read this, they will all have moved to Indonesia, where Marcus will work for the Salvation Army. He will lead the work at a foundation, for the Salvation Army’s 6 hospitals and 13 clinics in Indonesia. This will, of course, be done in an agile, Lean fashion, drawing inspiration from and using the techniques found in this book. Marcus will also teach brass instruments to the youngsters at the Salvation Army orphanages.

books by Marcus Hammarberg

Kanban in Action
  • February 2014
  • ISBN 9781617291050
  • 360 pages
Included with a Manning Online subscription
  • printed in black & white
  • Available translations: Complex Chinese, Japanese, Polish

Too much work and too little time? If this is daily life for your team, you need kanban, a lean knowledge-management method designed to involve all team members in continuous improvement of your process.

Kanban in Action is a practical introduction to kanban. Written by two kanban coaches who have taught the method to dozens of teams, the book covers techniques for planning and forecasting, establishing meaningful metrics, visualizing queues and bottlenecks, and constructing and using a kanban board.

Written for all members of the development team, including leaders, coders, and business stakeholders. No experience with kanban is required.