The Toyota System (Lean Manufacturing) is largely considered a fundamental revolution in manufacturing. Systems like 5S, continuous improvement, just in time production, Kanban (which is way more sophisticated in Lean then in software project management) etc have been demonstrated over and over again to be highly effective at improving factory production, employee satisfaction, and product quality.
As I understand it, Agile was an attempt to translate Lean Manufacturing from physical production to software development. I've seen some pretty incredible presentations on the benefits of Agile, particularly out of Spotify.
Yet I've never personally worked somewhere that I felt adopted Agile in a way that delivered on the promises and I've heard similar sentiments from many other people.
I have personally experienced the benefits of Lean methods even outside of a factory setting when organizing my home and workshop.
Is there something fundamentally different about physical production processes versus software development?
As I understand it, Agile was an attempt to translate Lean Manufacturing from physical production to software development. I've seen some pretty incredible presentations on the benefits of Agile, particularly out of Spotify.
Yet I've never personally worked somewhere that I felt adopted Agile in a way that delivered on the promises and I've heard similar sentiments from many other people.
I have personally experienced the benefits of Lean methods even outside of a factory setting when organizing my home and workshop.
Is there something fundamentally different about physical production processes versus software development?