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Assess your efficiency

Assess your efficiency

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Assess your efficiency

- Many of the concepts used by the founders of Agile of agile came from lean manufacturing. came from lean manufacturing. Simply called lean, it's a systematic approach to identify to identify and eliminate waste in a system and eliminate waste in a system without affecting productivity. As a result of Agile's reliance on lean concepts on lean concepts and processes, and processes, understanding lean is critical. understanding lean is critical so it's important for you to know It's important for you to know that lean identifies seven typical wastes in systems. The first is partially done work. If something isn't complete, it doesn't add value. Partial value doesn't count as value at all. Next, we have extra processes. Next, we have extra processes. If you do something no one needs, it doesn't add value. There are also extra features. Sometimes, this is known as gold plating, where you build more than what's been asked for. It might be cool, but it doesn't add value to what was…

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