The agile and lean approaches to software development have much in common, but they also have some fundamental philosophical differences ...

I’ll start at the beginning, explaining where lean manufacturing came from, and, apply the lean idea to software development and cover the implications of lean software.

A story about implementing Lean Software Development in a software vendor house with seven major changes that have helped the R&D department to remove waste from their software development process.

Many teams optimize only a portion of the software value stream, but Kenji Hiranabe shows how we can adapt Lean Manufacturing's Kanban tracking system for communication with more of the organization.

I was just about to write an essay on Kaizen in lean software development when an IBM Rational press release crossed my desk. Among the new product announcements contained in that release, the one ...

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 ...

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 ...

The lean product design approach requires a mindset that prioritizes putting things out into the world, and gathering feedback: You can always make adjustments as you go, according to Google and Apple ...

Paul Puckett, chief technology officer for federal at Pivotal Software (NYSE: PVTL), has said the development of the U.S. Air Force™s tanker refueling application indicated that the service can ...

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 sorts of ...