Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit
Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit
Balancing Agility and Discipline: A Guide for the Perplexed
Balancing Agility and Discipline: A Guide for the Perplexed
Software process improvement through the Lean Measurement (SPI-LEAM) method
Journal of Systems and Software
Survey on agile and lean usage in finnish software industry
Proceedings of the ACM-IEEE international symposium on Empirical software engineering and measurement
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This paper is believed to be the first documented account of a full adoption of lean by a software company. Lean techniques were devised by Toyota and other manufacturers over the last 50 years. The techniques are termed lean because they require less resource to produce more product and exceptional quality. Lean ideas have also been successful in service industries and product development. Applying lean to software has been advocated for over 10 years. Timberline, Inc started their lean initiative in Spring 2001 and this paper records their journey, results and lessons learned up to Fall 2003. This case study demonstrates that lean thinking can work successfully for software developers. It also indicates that the extensive lean literature is a valuable source of new ideas for software engineering.