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Grown-Up Lean

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In 2003 and 2004 Google engineers released three groundbreaking papers: Web Search for a Planet: The Google Cluster Architecture, [4] The Google File System, [5] and MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters. [6] But still, there was not enough impact on business results.

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Lean Software Development: The Backstory

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Charter a team of responsible experts led by an entrepreneurial system designer. In 2003, the book Lean Software Development (Poppendieck, 2003) merged lean manufacturing principles with agile practices and the latest product development thinking, particularly from the book Managing the Design Factory (Reinertsen, 1997).