The most strategic-oriented ASDE is also the least known: Bob Charette’s Lean Development
Derived from the principles of lean production, the restructuring of the Japanese automobile industry that occurred in the 1980’s.
Lean Development extends traditional methodology’s view of change as a risk of loss to be controlled with restrictive management practices to a view of change producing “opportunities” to be pursued during “risk entrepreneurship”.
Lean Development has been used successfully on a number of large telecommunications projects in Europe