Questions tagged [lean]
This tag is for questions related to applications of lean principles to software development and maintenance. A summary of lean software development can be found in Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_software_development
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When to use Tracer Code rather Prototyping?
I am reading the book The Pragmatic Programmer and read about the Tracer Code and Prototyping, but I don't understood when to use Tracer Code instead of Prototyping. As I understood about Tracer Code, ...
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Is there reliable evidence of the benefit of implementing all practices of an Agile methodology (e.g Scrum) vs only some of them? [closed]
For example, the Scrum Guide states (emphasis mine): The Scrum framework, as outlined herein, is immutable**. While implementing only parts of Scrum is possible, the result is not Scrum. Scrum exists ...
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Assigning story points to the hypothesis in the backlog [closed]
We have been using Scrum as our project management platform for a while, now we are moving toward Lean UX and hypothesis driven development practices. We are using Poker planning to determine the ...
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What is the method to identify bottlenecks in a software engineering programme?
I'm on a software development programme in financial services - with 100 developers, plus testers, BAs, PMs and other support staff. We've read through Implementing Lean Software Development, and ...
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Can BDD and Lean methodologies be used together?
I was chatting with my product manager last week and he was bemoaning the lack of progress on our product. It's a fair criticism, too. So we got to talking about to describe the writing of ...
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7 votes
3 answers
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Selecting the (right?) application design [closed]
While working to build software products for early stage startups, I have seen two very common schools of thought that define an approach to application design. Those 2 paradigms typically include ...
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5 votes
1 answer
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Determining the cost of impediments (waste)
For some time now our Scrum teams have experienced recurring impediments caused by external factors to the team. The teams have discussed the impediments in their retrospectives and also brought it up ...
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5 answers
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Can Agile and ISO 9001 interact well?
There are few academic papers addressing the relationship between lean software development and the practices covered by ISO 9001. Most articles says that the divergence between these approaches is ...
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