Chapter 5 Speeding Ideas to Market

Steve Bell

Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock,which is rigid and cannot yield.

As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcomewhatever is rigid and hard.

This is another paradox: What is soft is strong.

Lao-Tzu

Chinese philosopher (6th century BCE), Tao Te Ching

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN IN THIS CHAPTER

▪ How to create a continuous flow from problems and ideas to experiments and solutions

▪ How Lean is applied differently within development and IT operations and how they may harmonize with each other to create flow

▪ How Lean thinking can benefit Agile software development practice and how Agile lessons can strengthen Lean

▪ How technologists within value streams ...

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