Dwellworks Experience - Lean Agile Playbook 2.01

Role of Leadership In order to support the successful adaptation of Agile and uphold its values, principles, and practices, our leadership team is committed to creating a culture of continuous improvement. It is important that the entire organization, from the top down, understands the idea of the servant leadership style and agrees on a team-based decision-making process. ABrief History of Lean and Agile Incremental software development methods trace back to 1957. Lightweight software development methods first appeared in the mid-1990s in reaction to the heavyweight waterfall-oriented methods that had become commonplace, which critics called heavily regulated, regimented, micromanaged and over-incremental. Proponents of these lightweight methods contended that they were returning to development practices that were present early in the history of software. These early implementations favored creativity, freedom, self-management, and continuous improvement. These methods are now collectively referred to as Agile development, after the Agile Manifesto was published in 2001. The term "Lean" was coined to describe Toyota's Production System during the late 1980s by a research team at MIT. The core idea is to maximize customer value while minimizing waste. In the early 2000s, companies (especially startups) began applying both Lean and Agile principles together in order to develop new products (or even new companies) more efficiently and based on validated customer demand.

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