Agile Business Change Blog Thoughts on Agile Strategic Business Change and Agile Delivery

Developed by Mary Poppendieck and Tom Poppendieck in their classic text on the subject, “Implementing Lean Software Development”, the 7 principles of Lean software development were modified from the original principles developed by Toyota in the post-war period. These 7 principles have formed the basis for all Lean methodologies, and are essential for a project to be carried out in a Lean manner.

The principles are:

• Eliminate Waste
• Create Knowledge
• Build Quality In
• Defer Commitment
• Optimize the Whole
• Deliver Fast
• Respect People

Obviously, simply listing these principles by title doesn’t give us the whole story, so we’ll be expanding on each over the course of the next couple of weeks, to give you more of an understanding of how these principles can be applied in a real project situation.