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

The agile and lean approaches to software development have much in common, but they also have some fundamental philosophical differences This succinct book explains how to you can apply the practices ...

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The Japanese word Muda loosely translates as waste. The core element of lean manufacturing is to eliminate waste–or, in more North American terms, to “cut the fat.” While applying lean concepts to ...

IBM Rational's MCIF offers a twist on Kaizen, a lean manufacturing mainstay and the process of "continuous improvement" practiced by Toyota for 50 years I was just about to write an essay on Kaizen in ...

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 ...

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Want to reduce your release cycle from 203 to 100 days — and make it more secure? Fannie Mae did. Vice-president of development services Michael Garcia credits lean, a quality improvement philosophy ...

company profile In a software development world dominated by behemoths of global girth, Adelaide's Planet Software is a fiercely independent, tiny and agile company that is dishing up software for all ...

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