Joe Krebs speaks with Mary and Tom Poppendieck about Lean Software Development. Together they wrote a series of books: “Lean Software Development” “Implementing Lean Software Development”, “Leading Lean Software Development” and “The Lean Mindset” in chronological order.

Mary and Tom talked about how Lean fits into the universe of processes, tools and techniques in regards to processes like Scrum or Kanban. They did that from a leaders point of view. We discussed the role of knowledge workers and how that relates to people for example in Lean Manufacturing. We also had a chance to touch on Kata practices as they gave feedback to the initial release of the Agile Kata.

Joe Krebs speaks with Nigel Thurlow about Agile and Lean at Toyota Connected. Nigel is the Chief of Agile at Toyota Connected, an innovative start-up within the Toyota Family. Nigel shares how Toyota Connected uses Agile and Lean Practices to their advantage and as an accelerator for innovation and response time. He provides insights on the structure and culture of the organization and what it means for them use agile and lean in parallel or in combination. 

Nigel provides insights into how the Toyota Way, PDCA Cycle as well Lean Manufacturing influences the way on how they do things. But more importantly, Nigel describes how they collect a Pattern Catalog for successful scaling based on Scrum at Scale, Nexus and their own findings.