From the course: DevOps Foundations: Lean and Agile
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Lean in practice
From the course: DevOps Foundations: Lean and Agile
Lean in practice
- Lean got started in the auto manufacturing world and its benefits have been quickly adopted in other areas. You'll find it used in product development with independent teams of experts from multiple disciplines innovating together using visual work management tools. You'll find it in startups where they ship a minimum viable product and then iterate on it using a build, measure and learn cycle to get customer feedback instead of trying to design the perfect product upfront. You'll also find it in user interface development where Lean UX advocates for continuous improvement of the user experience of software by collaboration, iteration, and experimentation. There are popular books on Lean enterprise, Lean IT and more, and this brings us back around to tech and using Lean to develop software. Mary and Tom Poppendieck's book, "Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit" famously adapted these lean techniques to software development. They identified seven principles to follow when…
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