Over the past years, raising costs of health care in most countries cause to attract more attention to different aspects in the field. One of the best improvement methodologies known in literature is based on lean principles. The main aim of this methodology is to create values in the system by eliminating losses and creating continuous efforts toward improvement. Therefore, by measuring the pe...

Lean software development Lean software development (LSD) is a translation of lean manufacturing and lean IT principles and practices to the software development domain. Adapted from the Toyota Production System, a pro-lean subculture is emerging from within the Agile community. Origin The term lean software development originated in a book by the same name, written by Mary Poppendieck and Tom ...

Lean principles have been effective in reducing waste in manufacturing organizations. These principles are now being applied in software development processes. This paper describes lean thinking concepts and the process of applying lean in the technical coding at IMVU a virtual worlds company. It also summarizes lessons learned in the implementation of lean for software development processes.

The Japanese automotive industry is based around principles of “lean thinking”, and attaches great importance to reducing waste and focusing on those activities which add value for the customer. There has recently been interest in applying similar principles in service industry environments, including communications providers. This paper discusses the application of lean principles to BT, and d...

In this paper, we deal with various induction principles incorporated in an underlying tableau calculus with equality. The induction formulae are restricted to literals. Induction is formalized as modiied closure conditions which are triggered by applications of the-rule. Examples dealing with (weak forms of) arithmetic and strings illustrate the simplicity and usability of our induction handli...

A concept of Lean can be seen as a loosely connected set of potentially competing principles whose goal is cost reduction by the elimination of waste, and organise the possible effort to utilise waste of all kinds in a productive way. The avoidance and then lateral removal of waste has a long history, and as such this history forms much of the basis of the philosophy now known as "Lean". Many o...

Many software development companies have fundamentally changed the way they organize and run their development organizations in the course of the last decade. Lean and agile software development became more and more common. Lean focuses on continuous value generation based on a framework of principles known from manufacturing. But how do software developers actually implement these principles i...

Simulation modelling and Lean principles have both been applied in the construction industry to improve work processes. The outcomes from their implementation are outstanding and have motivated construction researchers to seek means by which other aspects of construction production could benefit from this development. Therefore the aim of this research is to use computer simulation as a tool fo...