Mary Poppendieck started her career as a process control programmer, moved on to manage the IT department of a manufacturing plant, and then ended up in product development, where she was both a product champion and a department manager. 

Mary tried to retire in 1998, but instead found herself managing a government software project where she first encountered the word “waterfall”.  

She wrote the award-winning book “Lean Software Development” to explain how the lean principles from manufacturing could be applied to software development. Mary found retirement elusive as she lectured and taught classes with her husband Tom.  Based on their on-going learning, they wrote a second book, “Implementing Lean Software Development.” 

Mary continues to be a popular writer and speaker as she continues to bring new ideas to the world of software development.

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