Paper Info
Title
Adapting the Lean Enterprise Self-Assessment Tool for the Software Development Domain
Abstract
Lean principles have attracted the attention of software development companies due to their potential to improve competitiveness. However, the application of such principles in the software domain is still in its infancy. This paper presents a proposal for adapting the Lean Enterprise Self-Assessment Tool (LESAT) to guide the transformation of software development companies toward Lean. LESAT, developed by the Lean Advancement Initiative (LAI) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has been widely used in other domains. In this study, concepts and expressions of LESAT were analyzed and mapped to software development following the ISO/IEC 12207 standard. Seven assessment items concerning life-cycle processes were modified from the original LESAT. The modified LESAT for software was compared with a lean assessment approach called "Lean amplifier, " which has been developed and successfully used in practice by Ericsson R&D in Finland. The results indicated that LESAT may complement lean assessment in the software domain at enterprise level, involving the entire value stream. Moreover, they clearly emphasized the role of leadership in the transformation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/SEAA.2012.51
Software Engineering and Advanced Applications
Keywords
Field
DocType
lean assessment approach,original lesat,lean amplifier,software development domain,lean advancement initiative,modified lesat,software development,software domain,lean assessment,software development company,lean principle,lean enterprise self-assessment tool,software engineering,maintenance engineering,assessment,lean,lean software development,lean production,enterprise
Systems engineering,Lean IT,Computer science,Lean software development,Lean project management,Software,Lean manufacturing,Lean enterprise,Value stream mapping,Software development
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1089-6503
978-1-4673-2451-9
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.47
11
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Teemu Karvonen1885.65
Pilar Rodriguez2192.43
Pasi Kuvaja323624.82
Kirsi Mikkonen4172.03
Markku Oivo565081.11