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Lean Enterprise

Errata for Lean Enterprise

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Version Location Description Submitted By Date submitted Date corrected
ePub
Cover

No cover image in the 3rd release of the book. The diff file between the 19th Feb release and 7th Jan update in OEBPS/cover.html is as follows (lines starting with - were removed in the latest release) :

diff -NurP a/OEBPS/cover.html b/OEBPS/cover.html
--- leanold/OEBPS/cover.html 2015-01-06 16:11:18.000000000 +0100
+++ lean/OEBPS/cover.html 1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!DOCTYPE html><html xmlns:epub="http://www.idpf.org/2007/ops" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Cover</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="epub.css"/></head><body><figure data-type="cover">
-<img src="assets/cover.png"/>
-</figure></body></html>

also there is no cover.png file in OEBPS/assets directory.

Best regards

 Anonymous  Feb 19, 2015  Jul 02, 2015
Other Digital Version
All
Throughout

I have the Kindle version of this book. Throughout the book, images do not scale when viewed in columns on Kindle apps for Mac.

Check this link for an example of the problem http://imgur.com/E9AbZl1

 Anonymous  Jul 07, 2015  Jul 02, 2015
Other Digital Version
chapter 5
"measurement fallacy", 5th paragraph

The chapter references "Dan McClure's pirate metrics", this should read "Dave McClure".

ThoughtWorks' Dan McClure is a lovely guy, and has magnificent hair, but Pirate Metrics are traditionally credited to entrepreneur DAVE McClure (who has far less hair, but is still probably a nice guy).

Note from the Author or Editor:
OOPs. That is what we get for all working with Dan. I have submitted the correction to the publishers. Thanks for pointing this out.

 Nic Smythe  Jul 15, 2015  Oct 30, 2015
PDF
Page Vii
2nd paragraph?

Developers showcase software from workstations to business analysts at the end of month-long sprints in order to score their �story points� but no attempt is made to understand if the software will achieved its intended outcomes.

'Will achieved'? Should it be something like 'if the software achieved', no will?

 Christian Maurer  Feb 05, 2014  Dec 01, 2014
Mobi
United Kingdom

Section 3 will discuss how to ex a 3 will ploit validated business models through growing and scale products

Section 3 will discuss how to exploit validated business models through growing and scaling products

 Ben Thompson  Feb 28, 2014  Dec 01, 2014
PDF
Page 2
1st para, last line

From "Lee had been right in his bet that it was 'it was...." to "Lee had been right in his bet that “it was..."

Repeats "it was" twice

 mitchell huff  Sep 15, 2014  Dec 01, 2014
Mobi
Page 4
United Kingdom

experience faster growth anesid higher revenues.

anesid = and?

 Ben Thompson  Feb 28, 2014  Dec 01, 2014
Mobi
Page 6
United Kingdom

following some of the practices, wirs racticethout embracing the princples

without embracing the principles

This paragraph is very relevant to us!. Some boxes ticked in some departments, but not a mindset change throughout.

 Ben Thompson  Feb 28, 2014  Dec 01, 2014
ePub
Page 7
1st paragraph

"This shift in thinking about software has even lead to some large companies, including GE and GM, pioneers of outsourcing, taking software development back in house.”

Excerpt From: Jez Humble, Barry O’Reilly, and Joanne Molesky. “Lean Enterprise.” iBooks. https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewBook?id=8F8F52FC304D46361BE2A6A59634B185

The 9th word in the sentence is the incorrect spelling of "lead" — this should be "led".

 Jessamyn Jones  Aug 25, 2014  Dec 01, 2014
Mobi
Page 9
United Kingdom

At these heart of

At the heart of

 Ben Thompson  Feb 28, 2014  Dec 01, 2014
Mobi
Page 12
United Kingdom

practicof patternes

practical patterns

Ben Thompson  Feb 28, 2014  Dec 01, 2014
ePub
Page 13
1st paragraph

“This approach, intended to drive efficiency and create predictability, has lead instead to increased costs and enormous waste and inefficiency in turning ideas into measurable business outcomes.”

Excerpt From: Jez Humble, Barry O’Reilly, and Joanne Molesky. “Lean Enterprise.” iBooks. https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewBook?id=8F8F52FC304D46361BE2A6A59634B185

Again, the 11th word should be "led", not "lead".

 Jessamyn Jones  Aug 25, 2014  Dec 01, 2014
Mobi
Page 15
United Kingdom

People in lef>
finance, accounting, or governance, regulation and compliance who are involved in delivery.

The bullet is broken, text flows onto next line. Bullet below also subsequently not in line.

 Ben Thompson  Feb 28, 2014  Dec 01, 2014
PDF
Page 20
1st

These words are misspelled
buisness
explotation

Christian Maurer  Feb 05, 2014  Dec 01, 2014
Mobi
Page 21
United Kingdom

and achieving ach teven

and achieving even

Ben Thompson  Feb 28, 2014  Dec 01, 2014
ePub
Page 21
Second full paragraph

“Our overriding goals was to keep the book short, concise, and practical.”

Excerpt From: Jez Humble, Barry O’Reilly, and Joanne Molesky. “Lean Enterprise.” iBooks. https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewBook?id=8F8F52FC304D46361BE2A6A59634B185

The third word should be "goal", not "goals".

 Jessamyn Jones  Aug 25, 2014  Dec 01, 2014
ePub
Page 22
End of the first paragraph

“We could find no other way to cover the ground we had in scope in an actionable way in less than 300 pages.”

Excerpt From: Jez Humble, Barry O’Reilly, and Joanne Molesky. “Lean Enterprise.” iBooks. https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewBook?id=8F8F52FC304D46361BE2A6A59634B185

Grammatically, this should be "fewer than 300 pages", not "less".

 Jessamyn Jones  Aug 25, 2014  Dec 01, 2014
Mobi
Page 27
United Kingdom

due to interactions betweens t>it is impossible

Don't know what this should be

 Ben Thompson  Feb 28, 2014  Dec 01, 2014
ePub
Page 28
Second full paragraph

“The conventional wisdom was that executives should achieve this goal through focuing on maximizing shareholder value and compensating the executives with stocks.”

Excerpt From: Jez Humble, Barry O’Reilly, and Joanne Molesky. “Lean Enterprise.” iBooks. https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewBook?id=8F8F52FC304D46361BE2A6A59634B185

I assume the 12th word should be "focusing" and not "focuing".

 Jessamyn Jones  Aug 25, 2014  Dec 01, 2014
PDF
Page 71
2nd paragraph

Hello! I just downloaded the latest pre-release copy of Lean Enterprise, looking forward to more!

In the 2nd paragraph, "prescriptive" is spelled incorrectly. "an industry standard that is quite PERSCRIPTIVE in how to manage..."

Thanks!

@DerekDaczewitz

 Derek Daczewitz  Jan 28, 2014  Dec 01, 2014
Printed
Page 77
Figure 4-5

Figure 4-5 attempts to explain what is meant by minimum viable product by comparing two images. Unfortunately, the images are the same.

Note from the Author or Editor:
This was a result of information being lost when the image went from color to grayscale for the print edition.

You can find a corrected image here:
https://github.com/oreillymedia/lean_enterprise/blob/master/leen_0405.png

 Aaron Jensen  Jan 29, 2015  Feb 13, 2015
PDF, ePub, Mobi
Page 12620
text

Typos:

"staring with" should be "starting with"


"may go so as far as to"

 Anonymous  Sep 18, 2019  Jul 17, 2020