The Lean Kanban Agile Methodology
Kanban is a method for managing the process of software development with highest efficiency. The Lean concept optimizes an organization’s system to produce valuable results based on its resources, needs, and alternatives while reducing waste. Waste could be from building the wrong thing, failure to learn, or practices that impede the process. Because these factors are dynamic in nature, a lean organization evaluates its entire system and continuously fine tunes its processes. The foundation of Lean is that the reduction of the length of each cycle (i.e., an iteration) leads to an increase in productivity by reducing delays, aids in error detection at an early stage, and consequently reduces the total amount of effort required to finish a task. Lean software principles have been successfully applied to software development. Kanban literally means a “signboard” or “billboard” and it espouses the use of visual aids to assist and track production. The concept was introduced by Taiich...
