Note: I am still trying to figure out how much detail to put in this chapter. But thought at least the outline of what a full description would look like.

Mindset of Lean-Agile

• Systems thinking
• Achieve results by improving people and systems
• Attend to time
• Build quality into the system

Laws to Attend to

• Nature of Product Development – Flow
  • Delays in workflow and feedback create extra work
  • Little’s law
• Nature of People
  • People are tribal in nature, you must account for this
  • Too much change causes fear

Lean-Agile Principles

• Take an Economic View  – focus on value
  • Customer Value
  • Discovering what is valuable
  • Discovering how to build what is of value
  • Building it
  • Improving Your value Stream
• Deliver Fast – Lessons from Lean-Startup – Using Minimum Business Increments
• Reduce Batch Size
• Manage work with pull systems
• Decentralize Decisions
• Synchronize work

Lean-Agile Practices

• Create visibility
  • Map the value stream
  • Attend to your value stream impedance
  • Explicit workflow
• Optimize the whole
• Create teams when possible
  • Cross-functional Teams Eliminate Waste
  • How to create teams when it doesn’t appear possible
  • Attend to Key Folks – Know how to manage constraining people
• Limit work to capacity
• Reduce Technical Debt with Test-first and automation
• Use Cadence and Synchronization to Improve collaboration and reduce duplication of effort