The Future of Lean in an Agile World

Abstract

Lean was first popularly exposed to the Agile Software developmentcommunity with the publication of Mary and Toni Poppendieck's book``Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit{''} in 2003. While therehas been much interest in Lean software practices, they have notattracted quite the same degree of popularity in the literature as other``Agile{''} practices. Why is this so? Is Lean harder to adapt and adopt- does Lean require a greater critical mass (team and system scope andscale) to make value tangible? What are the challenges that Lean is bestsuited to address? What are the areas for ongoing research and howshould we proceed? - These are some of the questions that will bediscussed and debated by this panel of leading practitioners andacademics.