lightning talk: dev/ops, kaizen (lean) meets agile development

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Development / Operations

the application of kaizen methodologies and

principles to agile software development

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Agile software development : A group of software development methods in which solutions evolve through collaboration between self-organizing,cross-functional teams. It promotes adaptive planning, evolutionary development, early delivery, continuous improvement, and encourages rapid and flexible response to change.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_development

Iterative, incremental and evolutionary

Efficient and face-to-face communication

Very short feedback loop and adaptation cycle

Quality focus

Goals and Characteristics:

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Kaizen : A Japanese business philosophy of continuous improvement and the involvement of all employees in the manufacturing process. Kaizen focuses on

delivering high quality products with as little waste as possible.

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Iterative, incremental and evolutionary

Efficient and face-to-face communication

Very short feedback loop and adaptation cycle

Quality focus

continuous improvement and the involvement of all employees in the development process.

Dev/Ops focuses on delivering high quality software with as little waste as possible.

Dev / Ops

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Muda (無駄 ) An activity that does not add value

Mura (斑 ) unevenness; irregularity; lack of uniformity; nonuniformity; inequality

Muri (無理 ) overburden, unreasonableness or absurdity

Poka-yoke (ポカヨケ ) Automated Error prevention

Dev/OpsThe Elimination of Waste and Errors (via automation)

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DEV

QA

UATOPERATIONS

Many Organizations

Write and test softwareDeploy/Maintain Software

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Dev / Ops Organizations

DEV

QA

UAT

OPERATIONS

Full involvement in the software development, deployment and maintenance lifecycle

More deployments

fewer outages

faster response to the business

less down time

Higher Quality & Less Waste!