Waste elimination is one of the Lean principles and one of the most effective ways to increase quality and reduce cost. While products and services differ between industries, waste or muda –everything that does not add value from the perspective of the customer, or any material/resource beyond what the customer requires and is willing to pay for – can be found in any type of business, such as in the software development.
Mary and Tom Poppendieck – two of the leaders in describing how to implement Lean to software development – have translated the well-known “Seven Wastes of Manufacturing” into “The seven Wastes of Software Development”.
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Today, I am guest blogging at Christian Paulsen “Lean Leadership” blog. The post has been is divided into two parts. Please click Part 1 and Part 2 to read the rest of the post and leave your comments.
3 Comments
Doyel mirza · August 10, 2012 at 9:17 pm
Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma started life as improvement methodologies with very different focuses. This would allow the skilled improvement practitioner to have a more rounded toolkit at his disposal when faced with any business problem.lean six sigma
Anonymous · August 14, 2012 at 4:12 am
While Lean certainly has merit, I frequently find single line statement principles get applied to far more complex relationships than they were designed for.
Some commercial relationships have no direct or even quantifiable return. But an inability to accurately model or measure something does not make it cease to exist.
Emmett Dignan
Randall Walters · October 17, 2012 at 7:27 pm
Thus compromises are being made by the software development company in order to complete the target. If compromising is not a company’s policy then it needs to increase the hired professionals working on the project which can lead up to huge loss.
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