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Grown-Up Lean

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Roots of Lean Product Development During the 1980’s, when it became apparent that Japanese automotive companies were making higher quality, lower cost cars than US automotive companies, Boston rivals MIT and Harvard Business School started programs to investigate the situation. Clark and Takahiro Fujimoto.

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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.”