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The Seven Wastes of Software Development

Posted by: Matt Stine on 2010-11-10 08:44:00.0

In late September I completed an eight-part article series for Agile Zone entitled “The Seven Wastes of Software Development.” This series discussed Mary and Tom Poppendieck’s mapping of Shigeo Shingo’s “Seven Wastes of Lean Manufacturing” into the software development world. This has been a very popular series, having been viewed a total of 57,887 times at this writing. Here’s a set of links to the series:



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Matt Stine

Matt is the Group Leader of Research Application Development in the Research Informatics Division of Information Sciences at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. Matt has been developing and supporting enterprise Java applications in support of life sciences research for St. Jude since 2001. Matt is a committer to multiple open source projects and is the founding member of the Memphis/Mid-South Java User Group. Matt is also the Zone Leader at http://agile.dzone.com, and his articles have also appeared in GroovyMag and NFJS the Magazine. His current areas of interest include lean/agile software development, modularity and OSGi, mobile application development (iPhone/iPad/Android), web development (HTML5, etc.), and Groovy/Grails.

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NFJS, the Magazine

NFJS, the Magazine
2010-10-01 00:00:00.0 Issue Now Available
  • What's Brewing in Java 7: The Language Features
    by Venkat Subramaniam
  • Waste!
    by Hamlet D`Arcy
  • Arquillian: A component Model for Integration Testing
    by Dan Allen
  • Spring Roo - A Jump-Start for Your Java Project
    by Paul Chapman
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