A lean organization understands customer value and focuses its key processes to continuously increase it. The ultimate goal is to provide perfect value to the customer through a perfect value creation process that has zero waste.
A waste is any step or action in a process that is not required to complete a process (called “Non Value-Adding”) successfully. When Waste is removed, only the steps that are required (called “Value-Adding”) to deliver a satisfactory product or service to the customer remain in the process.
These are the 8 Wastes:
Later, the Lean concept was adapted by Eric Ries in his famous book, Lean Startup.
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The five-step thought process for guiding the implementation of lean approach is easy to remember, but not always easy to achieve:
Lean came much earlier than the Agile Manifesto. It emerged in postwar Japan in automobile factories that wanted to be more productive.
The Figure shown below can easily be misunderstood that Agile is a subset of Lean, and in turns, Scrum is a subset of Agile.
What it mean is that:
In short, lean projects are quite effective if they incorporate Agile concepts into their execution. After all, Lean means lean, without excess or waste, something that meets all that the Agile methodologies propose.
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