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Lean methodology

  • Identify value streams
  • Maximize value to customer
  • Optimize the value streams
  • Recognize how to optimize stream

Lean principals talk about identify wastage based on below principals​

  • Is a customer willing to pay for something?
  • If not, then this is waste
  • Typical signs of waste
    • Large amount of Work in Progress
    • Unwarranted context switching
    • High manual effort

TO avoid this waste

  • Minimize errors in value streams
  • Automate
  • Standardize

Lean principals also encourage rapid delivery.​

In lean you must create knowledge.

  • Apply iterative learning
  • Analyze results of incremental work
  • Share learning experience
  • Implement infrastructure to capture knowledge

Another principal of lean is Defer commitment​

  • Just-in-time systems.
    • decisions made as late as possible
    • Maximize decision-making agility
    • Relevant Information
    • Timely information

Lean principal: Respect people​

  • Respect employees
  • Respect customers
  • Respect co-workers

Agile Software developlement process

  • Work backlog
  • Sprint backlog
  • Sprints
  • Incremental delivery

Key features​

  • High adaptability to change
  • No in-depth planning at onset
  • Continuously changing requirements
  • Customer feedback loop
  • Work is prioritized to maximize customer value
  • Incremental and iterative approach

Key methods to Apply​

  • Kanban
  • Scrum
  • Extreme programming

Agile Manifesto​

  1. Human interactions
  2. Functional software
  3. Customer relationships
  4. Adaption to change

Principle of building strong team​

  • Empower and support employees
  • Enable the team self-organization
  • Work closely with subject matter experts
  • Encourage face-to-face interactions
  • Promote sustainable development
  • Tune and adjust behavior frequently

Principles for client focused attention​

  • Encourage changing requirements from customer
  • Focus on customer competitive advantages.

Agile with Scrum​

  • Work backlog
  • Sprint backlog
  • Sprints and Scrum meetings
  • Incremental delivery

Key scrum roles​

  • Product owner
  • Scrum master
  • Scrum team

Scrum work flows​

  • Sprint planning
  • Daily Scrum
  • Sprint review meeting
  • Sprint retrospective

When Agile prefereable​

  • Customer availability
  • When scope is unknown upfront
  • Where partial success is valuable
  • When the team is small and highly skilled
  • When funding is flexible

When Agile​

  • THe project is based on predictive and repeatable work
  • The project is not very urgent
  • The project is complex or novel
  • The team is not confident in self-organization
  • The team lacks professional developers
  • The customer requires elaborate documentation
  • The customer requires to approve all work.
  • There is a lack of culture promoting Agile practices