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Improve Application Development Throughput

Drive down your delivery time by eliminating development inefficiencies and bottlenecks while maintaining high quality.

  • The business is demanding more features at an increasing pace. It is expecting your development teams to keep up with its changing needs while maintaining high quality.
  • However, your development process is broken. Tasks are taking significant time to complete, and development handoffs are not smooth.

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Critical Insight

  • Lean development is independent of your software development lifecycle (SDLC) methodology. Lean development practices can be used in both Agile and Waterfall teams.
  • Lean isn’t about getting rid of sound development processes. Becoming lean means fine-tuning the integration of core practices like coding and testing.
  • Lean thinking motivates automation. By focusing on optimizing the development process, automation becomes a logical and necessary step toward greater maturity and improved throughput.

Impact and Result

  • Gain a deep understanding of lean principles and associated behaviors. Become familiar with the core lean principles and the critical attitudes and mindsets required by lean. Understand how incorporating DevOps and Agile principles can help your organization.
  • Conduct a development process and tool review. Use a value-stream analysis of your current development process and tools to reveal bottlenecks and time-consuming or wasteful tasks. Analyze these insights to identify root causes and the impact to product delivery.
  • Incorporate the right tools and practices to become more lean. Optimize the key areas where you are experiencing the most pain and consuming the most resources. Look at how today’s best development and testing practices (e.g. version control, branching) and tools (e.g. automation, continuous integration) can improve the throughput of your delivery pipeline.

Improve Application Development Throughput Research & Tools

Start here – read the Executive Brief

Read our concise Executive Brief to find out why you should make development teams leaner, review Info-Tech’s methodology, and understand the four ways we can support you in completing this project.

Improve Application Development Throughput – Executive Brief
Improve Application Development Throughput – Phases 1-3

1. Conduct a current state analysis

Acquire a holistic perspective of the development team, process, and tools to identify the bottlenecks and inefficiency points that are significantly delaying releases.

Improve Application Development Throughput – Phase 1: Conduct a Current State Analysis
Lean Implementation Roadmap Template
Lean Development Readiness Assessment

2. Define the lean future state

Identify the development guiding principles and artifact management practices and build automation and continuous integration processes and tools that best fit the context and address the organization’s needs.

Improve Application Development Throughput – Phase 2: Define the Lean Future State

3. Create an implementation roadmap

Prioritize lean implementation initiatives in a gradual, phased approach and map the critical stakeholders in the lean transformation.

Improve Application Development Throughput – Phase 3: Create an Implementation Roadmap

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Guided Implementation 1: Conduct a current state analysis
  • Call 1: Kick off your lean transformation initiative.
  • Call 2: Evaluate your readiness for lean to alleviate your development inefficiencies and pain points.

Guided Implementation 2: Define the lean future state
  • Call 1: Discuss your understanding and application of lean principles in your development culture.
  • Call 2: Discuss how version control and source code management will be used in your development team.
  • Call 3: Discuss how automated build and continuous integration will fit.

Guided Implementation 3: Create an implementation roadmap
  • Call 1: Review your lean development roadmap.

Author

Alex Ciraco

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