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Lean pipelines

KEY LEARNING POINT

Visualise journeys and progress and create communication channels with colleagues.

Lean is a group of methodologies developed within the manufacturing sector (the Toyota Production System in the 1990s) to help run the business and deliver work on demand and just in time. It aims to deliver products in the most efficient and effective way possible. Lean pipelines provide a different way of visualising workflow, which is based on the stages of work over a length of time rather than blocks of time, as on the agile dashboard.

The primary goals of lean practice are to take out cost by being able to repeat and reproduce things efficiently through an optimum workflow with minimum waste. As well as optimising the ...

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