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Lean Software Development is a method that applies Lean principles to software creation, focusing on eliminating waste, accelerating delivery, and improving quality. It provides decision heuristics and process adaptations to optimize flow, value, and learning across teams and product lines. Useful for continuous improvement and organisational streamlining.
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Lean Software Development applies Lean principles to software development. Teams maximize customer value by reducing waste, building quality in, learning quickly, and keeping work flowing evenly.
Mary and Tom Poppendieck systematized the approach in their 2003 book “Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit”. They translated seven Lean principles from industrial production into agile software work and connected them with practical techniques.
Follow an idea from start to usable feedback: unfinished work waits, is refined, built, checked, and released. Every handoff, delay, or feature without value increases inventory; small batches, built-in quality, and deferred commitment keep flow able to learn.
Effort that adds neither customer value nor learning is made visible and questioned.
Tests, reviews, and engineering practices prevent defects from being discovered only at the end.
Small deliveries shorten feedback paths and enable decisions based on new evidence.
Lean Software Development helps with prioritization, process improvement, and fast feedback design. Its principles require contextual judgment: a blanket pursuit of waste can devalue necessary documentation, security work, or exploration.
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