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.

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 ...

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.

I was just about to write an essay on Kaizen in lean software development when an IBM Rational press release crossed my desk. Among the new product announcements contained in that release, the one ...

How does your software development team define their best practices? At a strategic level, our software development team’s best practices reflect the alignment of core software development tenets at ...

What is Agile software development? Agile software development is a set of collaborative methods and practices for producing software code faster and more efficiently. In particular, Agile ...

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.