Written on July 15, 2009 by Stephan Schmidt

Finished draft for my first free eBook: 12 Things to Shorten Your Lead Time

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Update: Released the final version.

Yesterday night I’ve finished the first draft of my first eBook (hurray!). The book is about reducing the lead time of your software development. “12 Things to Shorten Your Lead Time” helps with concrete actions you can take to shorten the time it takes from the first idea to the idea generating money on your website. The BETA early access version is free and available for download here. Go download it and give me feedback in the comments below or via email.

Writing the book was a lot of fun, I’ve learned a lot – about cadence and a steady pace when writing. The design is a first draft also, what do you think of it? For various reasons I used Word instead of Pages and it worked suprisingly good. I would wish for Keynote to be able to flow text boxes from page to page so I could use it for eBook writing. I had the feeling a blog post would be to long for the topic, so I decided to try an eBook. Good idea? The title is also a work in progress, I’m not really satisfied yet. Enjoy it.

Update: Cover inspired ;-) by some great presentations by Joe Walker

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About the author: Stephan Schmidt is head of development at brands4friends. He has more than 15 years of internet technology experience and 10 years experience in agile. He was head of development, consultant and CTO and is a speaker, author and blog writer. He specializes in organizing and optimizing software development helping companies by increasing productivity with lean software development and agile methodologies. Want to know more? All views are only his own.

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Dan P

July 22nd, 2009

Thanks for the book; I intend to re-read and try implementing some of the ideas.

Comments:
* I like the design.
* I thought the ‘Low quality is one of the biggest wastes…’ line on pg 7 broke the flow of the page – can it be all in the margin or have the body text flow around it on the right?
* Typo, pg. 10 – ‘work can be parallized’ I think should read ‘work can be parallelized’. Sounds like ‘paralyzed’ otherwise, and there are always people who can paralyze work ;)

stephan