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Lean Transformation: Adapting to the change, factors for success and lessons learnt during the journey: A case study in a multi location software product development team

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ISEC '16: Proceedings of the 9th India Software Engineering Conference

Pages 156 - 162

https://doi.org/10.1145/2856636.2856657

Published: 18 February 2016 Publication History

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A team of 400+ which followed V-model lifecycle underwent a dramatic transformation by adapting the Lean Product Development Lifecycle in 2010. The transformation began with a pilot project, based on whose experience; Lean was scaled to other projects in a systematic way. But, that was just the beginning of a crucial journey. There were several challenges the management and the teams faced during and post the transformation. Over a period of 5 years, the team faced and overcame several challenges, pitfalls, and of course achieved success. In this paper, the scaling of the change, the parameters and factors that are vital for such a transformation, lessons learnt and how the team overcame challenges are described. All the above mentioned aspects are analyzed from a 3 dimension point of view: Process, Product and People.

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Lean Transformation: Adapting to the change, factors for success and lessons learnt during the journey: A case study in a multi location software product development team
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Project and people management
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development process management
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. Software configuration management and version control systems

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ISEC '16: Proceedings of the 9th India Software Engineering Conference

February 2016

204 pages

ISBN:9781450340182

DOI:10.1145/2856636

General Chairs:
Santonu Sarkar
BITS Pilani, K.K. Birla Goa Campus
,
Ashish Sureka
ABB Corporate Research Center, India
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Program Chairs:
Domenico Cotroneo
University of Naples
,
Nishant Sinha
IBM Research, India
,
Vibha S. Sinha
IBM Watson, Almaden Research Center, USA
,
Radhika Venkatasubramanyam
Siemens, Bangalore India
,
Padmaja Joshi
C-DAC, Mumbai
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R. D. Naik
TCS
,
Pushpendra Singh
IIIT Delhi
,
Publications Chair:
Jayprakash Lalchandani
IIIT Bangalore

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