Project Management About Lean
Lean: Process Optimisation Across the Value Stream
- Maximise business value
- Focus on the entire value stream
- Minimise waste
Lean product development seeks to maximise business value whilst minimising waste, it is an evolution of the management discipline that originates from the Toyota Production System and their Just In Time manufacturing process.
Lean focuses on the entire value stream; from the initial concept through to realisation of business value, whereas agile processes focus only on optimising IT. Local optimisation within IT can be suboptimal for the value stream.
Lean maximises business value by matching demand to capacity and smoothing out the flow of work through a system. This allows teams to start completing work instead of just starting work. Read more about Lean Product Development and how IndigoBlue is pioneering the use of Lean processes into organisations that develop software systems.
Kanban for software development is the first real Lean IT process that has been proven to work in a range of industries across a wide range of scales.
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Read more:
- Read more about Kanban
- How IndigoBlue consultant Rob Hathaway has been successfully helping IPC Media introduce Kanban systems
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IndigoBlue has a long held view that incremental delivery, and the supporting incremental strategy, is core to the success of Agile management. This tenet is the basis for our governance framework and our approach to managing Agile at scale. Last week I was presented with an illustration of this in the shape of one of our customers that has recently piloted the use of Agile in their office in the States.