Chapter 6: Lean Practices in Software Development
The use of Lean development practices has expanded beyond its origins in manufacturing to include services and information-oriented businesses of all types. Regardless of the industry, Lean practices help the organization compete in their markets and ideally attain a sustainable competitive advantage. Lean practices also help government agencies and non-profits deliver services that citizens and other beneficiaries want in the most efficient way.
Today, Lean Thinking is the backbone of several Scrum-based Agile frameworks, such as the Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS) Framework and the Scaled-Agile Framework (SAFe®). Both frameworks will be discussed in later chapters. But before we can get to those chapters, it's important that you first understand the basic concepts of how Lean Thinking is leveraged in software and systems...
