Lean Programme Shaping – Exploring Waste

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This is the fourth post in a series of thought experiments on applying Lean/Agile principles to the early shaping stages of a programme. In the last two posts I started to explore how we could find the value stream in the “messy” stages of early programme shaping. In this post I will turn to the concept of “waste” in our context. In the classic Toyota Production System, seven types of waste are identified: Leaning heavily on the work the Poppendiecks did to translate these concepts to software engineering, I suggest the seven types of waste for programme shaping are: I’m sure that each reader will be able to add their own examples. Next – how do we design the programme shaping process to amplify learning?

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