Lean Software Development
The Problem is that software projects still deliver an unacceptable level of quality and responsiveness. Part of the reason for this is the industrial-era Scientific Management approach. Part of the reason for this is the progamming culture that grows up around a language.
Lean software development provides information-era Lean management: Reduce Cycle-time and start expecting zero defects.
But the cultural issues and organizational structures remain extraordinarily difficult to deal with. Some hope may be appearing in a new programming language (and more importantly programming culture) Ruby. Ruby at it's core includes an agile way of development. Agile was not merely added onto Ruby after the fact like it was for J2EE (and .NET).
The promise of applying Lean-Thinking to Software development is available now. It consists of a Lean Business Model, combined with Agile Processes like Scrum and ExtremeProgramming (XP) , and a deeply Object Oriented environment and culture. All these parts are currently available.
Beating the competition only requires putting them all together.
Created at: Sun Feb 24 15:47:00 UTC 2008 Updated at: Sun Feb 24 16:24:20 UTC 2008
