Joe Dager from the Business 901 blog and podcast is someone who has covered the cross-breeding of lean and agile more than most people.
So how does one apply Lean to agile software development? Wang, Conboy and Cawley examined thirty experience reports and came to the following conclusion:
Lean concepts, principles and practices are most often used for continuous agile process improvement, with the most recent introduction being the kanban approach, introducing a continuous, flow-based substitute to time-boxed agile processes.
But does that help? According to Swaminathan and Jain it “does seem to have significant benefits”.
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