Lean and agile

Lean + Agile- Research as well as listen to client

Lean Methodology-

-       What’s the problem?

-       Creating for someone’s need

-       Little bits of design

-       Updating & adapting how you work

-       End result

Agile Methodology-

-       Collabing with clients

-       Working together to create the best thing possible

-       Design process

A Lean-Agile process incorporates elements of both continuous delivery and continuous improvements, optimized across the entire value stream. 

Agile is ‘the ability to create and respond to change. It is a way of dealing with, and ultimately succeeding in, an uncertain and turbulent environment.’ 

‘It’s a philosophy that means breaking projects down into small goals and working towards those goals while adding new goals. It’s set up so a software development system can react well to changes.’

The lean movement was founded in Japan in the mid-1950s in the automotive industry and was mainly aimed at loss reduction and sustainable production. 

5 lean principles:

-       Entrepreneurs are everywhere

-       Entrepreneurship is management

-       Validated learning

-       Innovating accounting

-       Build-measure-learn 

A typical Lean company follows a learn-measure-build cycle, and conducts many tests, frequently connects with customers, understands their value, and focuses its key processes to continuously improve it. A never-ending cycle leads the start-up to sustainability, smart development, and success.

This reduces the high costs of getting the product wrong and shortens technology development cycles. 

Both Agile and Lean are aimed at achieving business goals and making the clients happy with a product of the best quality. However, they both sever different purposes and tasks. 

Lean philosophy:

• -       Is about Smart development, when you improve virtually everything you do by eliminating anything that doesn’t bring value to the customer
• -       Makes the developing process sustainable 
• -       Started from traditional manufacturing and expanded to all existing industries 
• -       Action loop: build-measure-learn 
• -       Method for demonstrating progress — validated learning 
• -       Methodologies: Kanban, Kaizen etc. 

The waterfall approach is where the product management treats each stage as separate and sequential. Agile and Lean methods however, use iterative work cycles or sprints.