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The Agile movement started a transition in the software industry. Some say that Agile brings more professionalism to the industry by focusing on the core activities and calling for a redesign of our software development processes in a fundamentally different way. However, it is clear that as Agile gets adopted, not everything is a bed of roses. Many companies are faced with issues that the available Agile methods do not sufficiently address. Lean is another paradigm that is gathering momentum and, according to many, can be the “next step” for the agile methods to step out of the software development environment and step into the larger business context of our industry. Some of the questions we intend to frame in this panel are: Why have companies embraced Agile? Why have companies embraced Lean? What do each of these paradigms agree on and what are the divergences? Why are those divergences important? What does the Lean paradigm change for a software company that has embraced Agile in the past?
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Anderson, D., Vilkki, K., Shalloway, A., Joyce, D., Rico, D.F., Power, K. (2010). Panel: Why Agile, Why Lean?. In: Abrahamsson, P., Oza, N. (eds) Lean Enterprise Software and Systems. LESS 2010. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 65. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16416-3_29
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