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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.”

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Grown-Up Lean

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Lambda replaced the need for customers to pay for servers sitting around listening for events to occur – reducing the cost (and Amazon’s revenue) for event-driven systems by a factor of 5 to 10 (!). and whole new category of cloud services was born. The cloud was gaining traction. Customers said WOW! Clark and Takahiro Fujimoto.