Get Lean, Eliminate Waste

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re: Get Lean, Eliminate Waste

Robert Fischer — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 20:18:32 GMT

Aside from the apparent duplication of effort from the Toyota example, how is this different than Agile or Pragmatic development?

re: Get Lean, Eliminate Waste

Grigori Melnik — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 07:52:54 GMT

Mary and Tom Poppendiecks are thought leaders of Lean Programming. I highly recommend their two books on Lean (both published by Addison Wesley) :

1) Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit - this is an excellent intro.

2) Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash (continuation of the discussion started by the first book, deeper coverage of the issues that people encounter when trying to implement Lean.

Happy reading!

re: Get Lean, Eliminate Waste

James Waletzky — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:05:42 GMT

Re: Robert's post

That's just it! Lean and agile fundamentally share many of the same principles. You'll see a lot of lean in agile and vice versa. Agile was conceived for software development and Lean for car manufacturing. The fact that they boil down to the same principles is immensely useful. Both industries can learn from one another and leverage common values and practices. Combining them provides a more complete picture of the story.