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I have read the books on the Toyota Production System and it does not apply to software, except in a very loose general sense. Manufacturing is not at all simil
by idoh 9y ago
I have read the books on the Toyota Production System and it does not apply to software, except in a very loose general sense. Manufacturing is not at all similar to software because with manufacturing you are making the same physical thing again and again, while with software you are only making a thing once, and it is intangible.
There are benefits for examining the flow of deliverables and information, and trying to eliminate waste, but much of the TPS is geared around the manufacture of physical objects and it is a stretch to apply it elsewhere.
- Jtsummers 9y agoIt's worth looking at books like Lean Software Development to see better how the concepts of Lean can apply to software. You're correct that TPS, being meant for a manufacturing environment, doesn't directly translate. But if you examine the principles on which it's based it fits very well in software development, maintenance, deployment, and operations.
- walshemj 9y agoExactly as A senior Guy at the BSI said where do you hang the defect ticket :-) I was working of a Project with the BSI that fed into BS 7570 or ISO 9000