With an emphasis on value, flow and people, Lean thinking and tools enhance and reinforce existing Agile practices or a transition to Agile. In an Agile enterprise, Lean principles offer a useful guide for managers who want to focus teams on creating value for their customers and learn more about …
Talk by Alan Atlas at the Rochester Institute of Technology. The talk analyzes scrum using the seven principles of Lean software development. At the end, it proposed that the root of why scrum works is contained in these things: * One-piece flow * Self-organizing teams * Tight feedback loops * …
Myriad Genetics is a rapidly growing clinical diagnostic test laboratory. They provide a high complexity DNA sequencing test that is run using a high degree of automation. Results of the testing must be perfect. In September of 2006, laboratory reporting was averaging 28 days. While world class, we wished to …
You will be introduced to Lean Thinking, the five principles and the seven wastes, and argumentation on how they apply to the Software Development Process. As a result you will see a new world of potential areas of improvements, and have a base from where you can challenge some of …