Laws of Software Engineering · Framework
Framework
Lean Enterprise
An operating model for large organisations that want to be fast. Optimise the whole value stream. Build feedback into every step. Treat the business as a portfolio of experiments.
How to use it. Apply when delivery teams are already fast and the bottleneck is the organisation around them. Finance, HR, procurement, and governance are the layers that slow companies down once engineering is sorted.
How it gets misused. Treated as a scaling framework for agile teams. Lean Enterprise is about the wider organisation adopting practices that let fast teams stay fast. The teams are usually fine. The organisation around them is the problem.
Related
- Framework The Three Ways A way of seeing DevOps as a whole. Optimise flow from idea to production. Amplify feedback from production back to development. Build a culture of continuous experimentation and learning.
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Law
DORA / Accelerate Findings
Four numbers predict whether a software organisation is performing well: how often you ship, how long changes take, how often changes break things, and how fast you recover when they do.
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Framework
Theory of Constraints
The speed of any system is set by its slowest part. Improving anything else makes no difference.
Clusters
- The Improvement cluster - How systems get better over time.
- The Lean Product cluster - How to build the right thing.