Lean software development is a translation of lean manufacturing and lean IT principles and practices to the software development domain. Adapted from the Toyota Production System, a pro-lean subculture is emerging from within the Agile community.
The term lean software development originated in a book by the same name, written by Mary Poppendieck and Tom Poppendieck. The book presents the traditional lean principles in a modified form, as well a...
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Lean software development is a translation of lean manufacturing and lean IT principles and practices to the software development domain. Adapted from the Toyota Production System, a pro-lean subculture is emerging from within the Agile community.
The term lean software development originated in a book by the same name, written by Mary Poppendieck and Tom Poppendieck. The book presents the traditional lean principles in a modified form, as well as a set of 22 tools and compares the tools to agile practices. The Poppendiecks' involvement in the Agile software development community, including talks at several Agile conferences has resulted in such concepts being more widely accepted within the Agile community.
Lean development can be summarized by seven principles, very close in concept to lean manufacturing principles:
Everything not adding value to the customer is considered to be waste (muda). This includes:
In order to be able to eliminate waste, one should be able to recognize it....
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