Agile vs Lean Transformations in 3 Minutes

Описание: Agile can be referred to as an iterative delivery system that focuses on value delivered, people collaboration and product quality. When organisations customers and employees require innovation and where products delivered are complex! agile can shine. Recorded benefits to agile are scarce, mostly due to a lack of situational awareness at the strategy level, but data is starting to show the cost of change decreases, employee engagement increases and higher customer value is obtained. Thus agile increases productivity as a holistic measure and but not always efficiency in a specific project or process.

Lean can be referred to as a system that maximises customer value with the least amount of resources. When management requires a stable and efficient process, decreasing lead times for customers and reducing waste for the organisation. Lean can shine. Lean has greater data points to show its benefits, including reducing time to market, decreasing stock on hand, reducing complexity and reducing the number of errors. Thus lean increases efficiency in a process, project or product cycle.

So what is the delta? Lean and Agile have a lot of overlaps but there is also confusion around those overlaps. Mostly due to agile vs lean thinking, lean startup, agile and lean mindset and six sigma.

The delta between Agile and Lean is in it’s approach to problem-solving and the types of problems an organisation has. Agile focus on the culture, the people and quickly adapting for greater productivity and lean focus on the system, the value produced and the efficiency of the system.

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