Chapter 14: Life Cycle Engineering

Title: Implementing lean in software development operations

Author(s): Mohamed Al-Kaabi, Riham Khalil, David Stockton

Address: De Montfort University, The Gateway LEI 9BH, Leicester, UK | De Montfort University, The Gateway LEI 9BH, Leicester, UK | De Montfort University, The Gateway LEI 9BH, Leicester, UK

Reference: International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management 2009 pp. 690 - 698

Abstract/Summary: In today's global market, managing software development projects is a crucial task due to the many entities, dynamic changes and unpredictable relationships between them. Although most of software development problems are identified, they are poorly acknowledged. This is proven through statistical data where most software projects can be considered at least partially failure in delivering customers needs on time with the specified budget. Considering software development as production environment what pursue the current research to search about using lean as it has been applied successfully in service. It has proved significant benefits in shortening lead times, reduce costs, and improve quality of the product. Adopting lean thinking helps in understanding the process, highlights the problem that may occur, and determine the added and non-added value activities. Mapping the software development process will be essential to understand the flow, value stream, factors, and entities within.

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