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Lean vs Agile
I personally haven’t heard this question before, but Martin Fowler mentions that he has been asked whether a team should use agile development or lean development for a project. The answer is that they’re not alternatives.
Lean development is a type of agile development.
In fact, Mary and Tom Poppendieck title their book “Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit.” And the introduction describes the book as a set of thinking tools for translating lean principles into effective agile practices.
In his post, Martin refers to Richard Durnall’s thoughts on using lean principles with agile projects, which I also enjoyed.
The better question is, how many lean principles are appropriate to implement for this project?
This entry was posted by Scott Vlaminck on Friday, June 27th, 2008 at 1:26 pm and is filed under Agile Processes. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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The article would have been more useful if it had included a definition of Lean software development (rather than merely a vague allusion to Japanese automobile manufacturing processes), or at least a link to an article defining Lean software development. ...on June 30th, 2008 at 9:21 am
fsilber, for more in-depth discussion about lean development than the two posts linked to, I highly recommend reading some of the essays by the Poppendiecks. Here are a few (from their Essays section):
- Lean Development
...on July 1st, 2008 at 8:39 am- Lean Programming
- Principles of Lean Thinking (pdf)
- Lean Software Development – From a Developer’s Perspective (pdf)
[...] posted an good reminder about the roots of Lean (something we like at work): Martin Fowler mentions that he has been asked [...] ...on July 5th, 2008 at 10:16 pm