Software's Seven Deadly Wastes
summary
Seven manufacturing wastes map to software: transport (handoffs, long-lived branches, slow deploys), inventory (work in progress—use Little's Law to justify small batches, Kanban and feature toggles to ship faster), motion and waiting (misaligned teams, change boards — use rhythms like sprints and standups), over‑processing/overproduction (don’t gold‑plate; beware the oft‑quoted 64% unused‑features stat), and defects (run unit tests locally, CI, dev‑prod parity, BDD/example mapping to reduce rework and feedback delay).
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:22Understanding software waste
- 7:27Waste 1: Transport
- 9:28Waste 2: Inventory
- 15:38Waste 3: Motion
- 19:44Waste 4: Waiting
- 25:06Waste 5: Over-processing
- 28:49Waste 6: Over-production
- 32:18Waste 7: Defects
- 37:01Conclusion and Q&A
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