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Lean Software Development
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I run projects and make organizations more efficient

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Lean & Agile Origins

1990

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1996

2003

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Lean Management
Lean is about quickly deliver customer value
from concept to cash, by minimizing waste.

Shigeo Shingo: Its only the last turn of

the bolt that tightens it the rest is just
movement

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A bad system will beat a

good person every time
- W. Edwards Deming
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Increase Flow

Create Long Term Business Value

Continuous Learning / Improvements
Reduce Waste
Value
Increase Flow
Respect
Reduce Waste

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Continous
Improvemenet

Principles of Lean Management

Respect

Optimize the Whole

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Lean Software Development

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.

Eliminate Waste
Amplify Learning
Decide as Late as Possible
Deliver as Fast as Possible
Empower the Team
Build Integrity In
See the Whole

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1 Eliminate Waste (uselessness)

1. Defects
2. Overproduction Extra Features
3. Transportation - Handoffs
4. Waiting - Delays
5. Inventory - WIP
6. Motion Task Switching
7. Processing Unneeded Processes
(8. Unused Talent/Skill)

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4 Simple Ways of Reducing Waste

Dont build
features
that nobody
needs right
now

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Dont write
more spec
than you
can code

Dont write
more code
than you
can test

Dont test
more code
than you
can deploy

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Pull Reduces WIP & Delays

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Visualize the Workflow

Limit Work-in-Progress (WIP)
Measure and Manage Flow
Make Process Policies Explicit
Use Models to Evaluate Improvement
Opportunities

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Continous Improvement
Waiting
Extra Features
Wrong Features
Paperwork
Bugs

Work In Progress
Task Switching
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See the waste...

Suggest
feature

Specify
feature

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Develop
feature

Test
feature

Deploy
feature

Use/pay
feature

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See the waste...

... And eliminate it!
Suggest
feature

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Specify
feature

Develop
feature

Test
feature

Deploy
feature

Use/pay
feature

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See the waste...

... And eliminate it!

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Use/pay
feature

24 hours

1 hour

Deploy
feature

24 hours

4 hours

40 hours

16 hours

24 hours

16 hours

Test
feature

Develop
feature

Specify
feature

120 hours

1 hour

Suggest
feature

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See the waste...

... And eliminate it!

But also minimize unevenness and overburden

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Use/pay
feature

24 hours

1 hour

Deploy
feature

24 hours

4 hours

40 hours

16 hours

24 hours

16 hours

Test
feature

Develop
feature

Specify
feature

120 hours

1 hour

Suggest
feature

38 hours
232 hours
---------------16% Efficiency
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2 - Amplify Learning

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Information Radiators Visualizes Work

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Radiators Increases learnings

If you could have only one information radiator;
1. What would it show?
2. Where would you put it?
3. When would you study it?
Todo

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Dev

Test

Done

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3 - Decide As Late As Possible

Do you need to set the entire architecture upfront?
Do you need to decide on all the requirements?

What do you really, really need to decide up front?

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4 Deliver As Fast As Possible

1 person doing
Task Switching

4 people focusing
on 4 different things

4 people focusing
on 1 thing

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Work in Progress

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Through-Put

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Through-Put

ROI

Payback

Investment

Cashflow

Profit
Loss

Time

1st Release
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5 - Empower the Team

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No One Ever Washes a Rented Car

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6 - Build Integrity In
Simplicity
Fast Feedback
Refactoring
Testing

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0% Flaws
0% Defects
0% Decay

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7 - See The Whole

5 Why

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How To Get Started

Personal Level
1. Do the Gemba Walk
2. Limit Personal WIP
3. Visualize Work
4. Ask the 5 Why
5. Take time to reflect on
your process

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Team Level
1. Map the value stream
2. Eliminate delays
3. Eliminate bottlenecks
4. Limit team WIP
5. Get your own car!

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Value Stream Mapping

Map your project stream, from idea to usage
List work time + idle time
Calculate Cycle Efficiency
Identify ways of increasing efficiency

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Use/pay
feature

24 hours

1 hour

Deploy
feature

24 hours

40 hours

16 hours

24 hours

4 hours

Test
feature

Develop
feature

Specify
feature

120 hours

1 hour

Suggest
feature

16 hours

1.
2.
3.
4.

38 hours
232 hours
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Thank you

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Lean Dictionary
Andon Signaling System
Kanban Sign/card
Jidoka Autonomation (detecting
abnormalities)
Kaizen - (continuous) change for
better
Muda Uselessness (7 wastes)
Mura Uneveness/irregularity
Muri Overburden
Genba The real place
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