Lean management - A metaphor for extreme programming?

Abstract

This work focuses on the analogies and the differences between Lean Management and Extreme Programming. Lean Management (LM) is a management strategy that continuously tries to improve business processes focusing only on activities that provide value to the customer. The word lean means that only activities that increase the provided value for the customer are performed. Any additional activities that can be avoided are cancelled, that influences not only production-related processes but also to management structures. XP is a discipline of software development based on the principles of Agile Methodologies. The term agile describes "the ability to both create and respond to change in order to profit in a turbulent business environment [1]." © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2003.