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Grown-Up Lean

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But the infrastructure VP invented ways for engineering teams to self-provision hardware and self-deploy software, which made it possible for teams to retain responsibility for any problems their services encountered once it went ‘live’, not just during development. Berkley is a close neighbor of Stanford, where Google was born.

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Lean Software Development: The Backstory

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In Boston, both MIT and Harvard Business School responded by launching extensive studies of the automotive industry. Clark and Fujimoto noted that the distinguishing features of Japanese product development paralleled features found in Japanese automotive production. 1990), which gave us the term “lean.”