Lean Principles : A Recipe for Improving Workplace Efficiency

Lean plays an important part in evolution of Agile and Scrum. The main goal of lean is to increase value for customers while reducing waste. Here we will try to understand history of Lean, where it started, Lean principles for manufacturing and Lean principles defined for software development specifically. Let’s start with history of Lean.

History of Lean

The history of lean goes back to late 1940s, post-World War 2 era. Japan was trying to rebuild its economy, infrastructure, and…