What Do We Mean by Lean, Lean and Agile Organization, and Lean and Agile IT?
This chapter introduces the reader to the concepts of Lean and, by way of consequence, Agile. We will then discuss the concept of a Lean and Agile organization, a Lean and Agile IT, and a Lean and Agile IT roadmap. To this effect, we will ultimately provide the reader with a summary of what it would mean for an organization, an IT department, and an IT roadmap to be Lean and Agile.
For the purpose of this book, we will consider Lean to be a catchphrase that describes a management approach originally invented by Taiichi Ohno and applied at Toyota in Japan after World War II. This catchphrase was eventually popularized ...
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