Hands-On Software Engineering with Golang

See and optimize the whole

In Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit, Mary and Tom Poppendieck use a stream-based analogy to describe the software development process. By this definition, each stage of the development process can be treated as a potential generator of value (a value stream) for the business. The Poppendiecks claim that in order to maximize the value that flows through the various stages of development, organizations must treat the development process as a sequence of inter-linked activities and optimize them as a whole.

This is one of the most common pitfalls that organizations fall into when attempting to apply lean thinking concepts. You have probably heard of the old adage miss the forest for the trees. Many organizations, ...