Great article by David about how “lean” Scrum is or can be.

Inspect the inherent Lean qualities of the Scrum framework along with various ways to help Scrum Teams improve using Lean Thinking.

Full article
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj161049.aspx

Gunther has some great visualizations of ”Lean” and “Scrum”.

He calls it the “The House of Scrum”: Standing on “Transparency” and 2 pillars: “Inspection” and “Adaptation” with the goal of the “Product”.

The House of Scrum is a great and energizing place where product development prospers from the combined, creative intelligence of people.

Who would not like to work there?

I really like the way how Gunther shows the compatibility between “Lean” and “Agile”

Lean  —- Agile

• Respect for People —- Self-organizing Teams
• Kaizen —- Inspect & Adapt, short feedback cycles
• Prevent/Eliminate Waste —- No unused specs, architecture or infrastructure
• Pull inventory (Kanban) —- Information Radiators
• Built-in Quality —- Definition of Done, Engineering standards
• Customer Value —- Active Business Collaboration (Product Owner)
• Optimizing the whole —- Whole Team Together (incl. stakeholders)
• Deliver Fast  —- Timeboxed iterations with working Increments
• The manager-teacher —- the facilitating servant-leader

Full article
http://ullizee.wordpress.com/2011/10/22/the-house-of-scrum/

Why were the Americans (General Motors) not able to learn from the Japanese (Toyota)?

Great podcast about New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc. (This American Life)
Listen to it here
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/403/nummi

We as devs are obsessed with #Agile, #Lean, #Kanban always looking for an excuse to solve our problem, instead of concentrating on the problem

Great quote from Hadi Hariri

Now go and solve the problem (or write an app) 

Great video recording from Abby Fichtner.
The Lean Startup: Who doesn’t want to change the world?

http://www.thehackerchickblog.com/2010/10/lean-startup-101-for-devs-presentation.html

Good talk from Aaron Erickson (Thoughtworks).

He starts with

1. the problems in software
2. shows us what should be important (Analytics and Measurements) to us and the users and then 
3. finally how to get results faster

SOLID Engineering -> Agile Software Development -> Continuous Delivery -> Lean Startup

Understanding the MVP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4B-Tp3SPGA

Nice article about “Lean”

Same concept as in “Great leaders inspire action, through the: Why”
From that video: “People don’t buy what you do, but why you do it!”

What is Toyotas “Why” statement?