Seek and analyze data

Nallthorum Nadi Muraiseyya  Mannavan
Nallthorum Nadu Kedum.
 King who daily seeks to Analyze not, will lead his nation gradually perish
 A Leader who does not seek and analyze data will come to see his nation / corporation leading to attrition.
 In Agile analogy the product owner who is not collaboratively involved with his scrum master and the team on [...]

MUDA 7 – Defects

Defects. Production of defective parts or firefighting to correct the defects. Rework, scrap, replacement, and inspection mean wasteful handling, time, and effort.
Defects in software development costs heavily to the vendors and customers alike.  Detecting the defects early by using Agile approaches likes TDD, Pair programming, Extreme programming, having defect prevention plan in place are [...]

MUDA 6 – Motion

Motion (Unnecessary movement). Spending extra time and wasted motion of employees during the course of their work to find relevant information about the tasks and projects, such as looking for, reaching for, or stacking parts, tools, etc.
In software development projects spread-out-teams in different locations within the organization should be avoided. If Dev, Testing and support [...]

MUDA 5 – Over processing

Over processing. Taking more steps than necessary to accomplish tasks. Using poor Quality Tools, incompatible software and hardware result in poor product design, producing defective product outcomes.
In software development Over processing normally results in requirements gold plating, design gold plating, etc. This means taking extra steps and sequences when the task /activity in hand can [...]

MUDA-4 Excess inventory

MUDA-4 Excess inventory

Excessive storage of raw material, assembly line work products, finished goods waiting for shipments and the associated storage costs for all these situations form the MUDA 4 – Excess inventory. It can include defects and downtime issues also.
Excess Inventory in Software development
Code is waiting for review and testing for long – typical [...]

MUDA 3 – Unnecessary Transport or conveyance

 
MUDA – 3  Transportation

Moving parts, components and other materials between location to location often with less planning leading to wastage of time and effort on the part of the workers and the task being done.
In software development  sending artifacts between different people and getting this reviewed, approved and commented and implementing the feedbacks are considered [...]

MUDA 2 – Waiting

 
Waiting  :
Agile is based on Lean Principles and best addresses this MUDA – Waiting .
In manufacturing environment a worker waiting to get other parts ready before he can go ahead with his component machining. Waiting for tools, material supply or simply waiting for any resources before the worker could start or continue working on his [...]

MUDA1 – Overproduction

Unstated and not needed items in manufacturing parlance. Manufacturing Goods or products that are not required currently are never would be.
When applied to software parlance unnecessary features that are gold plated and never were part of customer requirement. Also some of the features that are not required currently and developed by the project team [...]