Lean principles are being applied successfully to product design, engineering, the supply chain, and now software development. You’ll learn how to adopt Lean practices one at a time, rather than ...

If practices are supposed to continually evolve, how exactly do you “do” lean? Mary Poppendieck, co-author of two books on lean software, gave me one clue in an interview.

Born out of techniques that “revolutionised” Japanese manufacturing and engineering, come the principles behind ‘lean’ software development. Not Agile you understand, but lean.

Now in Agile software development the visualization of projects, such as posting task cards on a wall, is a commonly seen practice, which is sometimes called "Software Kanban", or "Task Kanban".

œThat approach involves combining agile practices with pair programming, test-driven development and user-centered design to create software that meets a mission need, Puckett wrote.

Aided by the emergence of increasingly advanced software engineering practices and tools, a “factory” approach to software development has become pervasive in the past 20 years. The concept that ...

If practices are supposed to continually evolve, how exactly do you “do” lean? Mary Poppendieck, co-author of two books on lean software, gave me one clue in an interview.

œThat approach involves combining agile practices with pair programming, test-driven development and user-centered design to create software that meets a mission need, Puckett wrote.

Under lean software development, your team defines waste in its own terms. If the government, management or a customer requires something that the team decides does not add value, then you do the ...