
72 ◾ Making IT Lean: Applying Lean Practices to the Work of IT
reader to read other books on Lean tools so that his or her own toolbox
can be expanded over time.
This is a good time to communicate a philosophy that the authors share
and that we believe is consistent with the principles and objectives of Lean
Learning. Specifically, while we could provide a detailed description of each
Lean tool we will discuss in this book (beginning in Chapter 5), we do not
believe that it is either necessary or helpful to do so. To begin with, as stated
above, the reader can find these in other books. In addition, we believe
that simple, modest starts with basi ...