Lean Software Development

• 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