{"id":10476,"date":"2016-10-18T12:22:18","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T16:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.analystik.ca\/blogue\/?p=10476"},"modified":"2019-09-19T09:26:07","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T13:26:07","slug":"lean-software-development-2017-it-healthy-diet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analystik.ca\/blogue\/language\/en\/lean-software-development-2017-it-healthy-diet\/","title":{"rendered":"Lean Software Development in 2017 or IT Healthy Diet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lean Software\u00a0<\/strong>Development<\/strong> is the extension of\u00a0the Lean<\/strong> principles to IT Products and Services Development and Management; more specifically, it aims at eliminating any type of work that adds no value to an IT product or service.[1]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

Lean Six Sigma<\/strong>\u00a0is a methodology that relies on a collaborative team effort to improve performance by systematically removing waste,[1]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0on eight types of operation: Transportation, Inventory, Motion, Waiting, Over production, Over processing, Defects, and Skills (abbreviated as ‘TIMWOODS’).<\/p>\n

One shouldn\u2019t underestimate, in a more and more predominant eBusiness<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>and eCommerce<\/strong> environment, the crucial role IT has come to play in businesses\u2019 primary activities of delivering value to customers. \u00a0IT often provides products and services that enable customers to find, order, and pay. IT also provides enhanced productivity and allows both suppliers and employees to better communicate, collaborate and produce \/ execute.<\/p>\n

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All Lean IT Consultants and Evangelists will tell you, there is an abundance of waste in Software Development due to IT legacy infrastructure and fractured or non-performing processes[5]<\/a><\/sup> which eventually contribute to poor customer service, lost business, higher costs, and lost employee productivity.<\/p>\n

Lean Software Development targets eight sources of waste within IT operations:<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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\u00ab\u00a0Lean \u00bb does not mean \u00ab Cheap\u00a0\u00bb<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Surprisingly, even though we\u2019re evolving in a more and more competitive environment that leaves no margin for error, we have lost these last few years our share of Software Development mandates as a Consulting Firm to either interns or junior developers among enterprises. So, it seems like many enterprises really think they can save time and money by entrusting mandates to the internal at lower rates.<\/p>\n

Normally though, it doesn\u2019t take much time for reality to catch these enterprises and for someone to raise a \u00ab\u00a0red flag\u00a0\u00bb. Fortunately for us, with time, we have successfully recover many Software Development mandates for which we have been\u00a0initially solicited but were finally given to interns and juniors.<\/p>\n

A rule\u00a0of thumb emerged from that experience: if the development project is complex or if it has to integrate with other legacy systems, calling upon a junior resource is very rarely a winning idea.<\/p>\n

So, how has our experience of Software Development project impacted Analystik<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Lean Software Development \u00ab\u00a0\u00e0 la Analystik\u00a0<\/a>\u00bb<\/strong><\/h3>\n

First, Analystik has put into place over the last 15 years a comprehensive and very rigorous Software Development Quality Control process, with a Lean flavour to it.<\/p>\n

So today, every Development project is executed through our own Software Development process which is strongly inspired by Agile Development Methodology.<\/p>\n

Thus, it was quite easy for us to pinpoint and highlight that the main causes of failures of those development projects that were entrusted to interns and juniors were a lack of experience and deficiencies in the Software Development Methodology applied by the project resources.<\/p>\n

And this how the lessons of our Software Development experience and our expertise in Development Methodology translate into the reality of a new project:<\/p>\n