[|] Less is More http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/userblogs/arden/blogView Arden Thomas arden@optonline.com Mon, 15 Jan 2007 18:26:03 EST http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/images/cst_small.jpg [|] Less is More http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/userblogs/arden/blogView 50 81 en-us Arden Thomas Copyright 2006 Arden Thomas 2007-01-15T18:26:03-05:00 41.633333 -73.916667 Lean Software Development http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/userblogs/arden/blogView?showComments=true&entry=3346336674 Books Mon, 15 Jan 2007 17:57:54 EST

I am currently reading this book:

 

Also mentioned in James blog

With the name “lean” you might imagine there is some “less is more” philosophy, and you would be right.

The book is very interesting; it borrows many ideas from just-in-time manufacturing, which I studied when I workd in IT for IBM semiconductor manufacturing in the late 80’s.

Borrowing ideas from other disciplines often yields valuable insights, especially if the other discipline has been around for a while. Doing this is what gave us software patterns. Software patterns came from looking at the novel ideas of Christopher Alexander about patterns that solve problems in building architecture.

One of the principles in the book is eliminating waste. From the book: “Let’s revisit the best opportunity for eliminating waste in software development: Write less code”.

 

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