Implementations of lean

- Welcome back. … While lean got started in the manufacturing world, … its benefits were quickly adopted in other areas. … The first was product management. … Toyota was using lean techniques in product development, … even as it took hold in manufacturing. … Fulfilling customer demand for more variation … was as important as an efficient production line … to Toyota's success. … Lean product development is characterized … by independent teams of experts … integrated from multiple disciplines, … empowered to pull their own work … and using visual work management tools. … This combination has been found … to increase the rate of innovation … and new product development. … And it kind of sounds like a team … with front and back end developers, … operations engineers, PMs, … and other disciplines pulling … from a backlog and using a kanban board, … as is pretty typical for a DevOps organization, doesn't it? … There's a lot to lean product development … and it can be very rigorous. … One of my favorite books is Reinertsen's …