Lean Software Development: A Tutorial

Experts described the origin of software development and how it related to well-known agile development practices and was expected to evolve in the future. Some similarities between Japanese management and PC-style software development were becoming apparent by the mid-1990s. The popularization of the term lean and its association with agile for software product development emerged from later efforts of experts was described in the book, Lean Software Development. These experts also emphasized on eliminating waste and bureaucracy in product development, encouraged learning through short cycles and frequent builds, and promoted late changes and fast iterations, with feedback pulling changes into a product. Lean software development needed to be based on a better understanding of a job that customers wanted to be done how this job needed to be mediated by software.