InfoQ: Book Excerpt: Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash

 

The 7 Principles of Lean Software Development:
  1. Eliminate Waste
    The three biggest wastes in software development are: Extra Features, Churn, Crossing Organizational Boundaries.
  2. Build Quality In
    If you routinely find defects in your verification process, your process is defective.
  3. Create Knowledge
    Planning is useful. Learning is essential. Predictable performance is driven by feedback.
  4. Defer Commitment
    Abolish the idea that it is a good idea to start development with a complete specification.
  5. Deliver Fast
    Lists and queues are buffers between organizations that simply slow things down.
  6. Respect People
    Engaged, thinking people provide the most sustainable competitive advantage.
  7. Optimize the Whole
    Brilliant products emerge from a unique combination of opportunity and technology.

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