We all know that Agile is sweeping the project management world. Or is it Lean? Lean Agile? Scrum? Kanban? DevOps? There are a lot of buzzwords flying around. Some say they all aim to turn businesses into impersonal software factories obsessed with eliminating waste. Is that true?
In a word, no! Lean is really about continuous improvement and respect for people. Far from being mechanistic, it’s a much more humane way to work.
Jon Terry will discuss how lean and agile ideas really relate to each other. How lean principles help explain why agile practices work. And how those principles help organizations develop the operational maturity to allow agile to succeed beyond the team level.