IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/lnopch/978-981-96-9697-0_73.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Housing Lean Thinking in Scaled Agile to Enable Large Software Project Success

Author

Listed:
  • Lucas Thulani Khoza

    (University of South Africa)

Abstract

Building a house requires a very strong foundation and strong pillars, the same is true when developing a software. The strength of the house is determined by the strength of its foundation. A house cannot stand if it misses one pillar, hence all pillars are equally significant in ensuring a strong basis of the house. The same applies in the Lean Thinking environment, there are pillars and core values that are of utmost important if one wants to deliver a software project successfully. Following the house lean thinking philosophy significantly plays a major role in the success of large software projects. Many firms have embraced the scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) to scale Agile to major software development companies. This is a qualitative study that explores all pillars necessary in enhancing software project success. Agile experts were interviewed to understand all pillars enabling software project success. The results indicate that the four (4) pillars in the SAFe house of lean are not strong enough hence there are still other issues that remain problematic in software project success. The study has revealed that the Lean-Thinking principle has similar pillars with the Scaled Agile Framework house of Lean with an additional of two (2) pillars, the pull and the value stream. These two additional pillars ensures that there is always value that is pulled from the software project being developed. The value stream is also defined as the impact that the software will bring to the customer.

Suggested Citation

  • Lucas Thulani Khoza, 2025. "Housing Lean Thinking in Scaled Agile to Enable Large Software Project Success," Lecture Notes in Operations Research,, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:lnopch:978-981-96-9697-0_73
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-96-9697-0_73
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a
    for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:lnopch:978-981-96-9697-0_73. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.