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Schlanke Produktionsweisen in der modernen Softwareentwicklung

Lean production methods in modern software development

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Der Beitrag zeigt am Beispiel von Extreme Programming (XP), dass agile Softwareentwicklungsmethoden auf den Ideen der Lean Production beruhen.

  • XP erreicht eine extreme Qualitätssicherung durch Paarprogrammierung, testgetriebenes Entwickeln, häufiges Refaktorisieren und laufende Codeintegration.

  • XP arbeitet mit extremer Kundenorientierung durch ständige Einbindung eines Kundenmitarbeiters, iteratives Planungsspiel, häufige Akzeptanztests und inkrementelle Auslieferung.

  • XP erreicht eine extreme Verschlankung des Entwicklungsprozesses durch das konsequente Weglassen von Entwurf, Dokumentation und aufwendigen Koordinierungsmechanismen.

Die Verankerung in der Lean Production liefert eine konzeptionelle Erklärung, warum agile Methoden kostengünstig zu hochwertiger Software führen. Erkenntnisse über schlanke Vorgehensweisen in anderen Wirtschaftsbereichen können auf die Softwareentwicklung übertragen werden.

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This paper shows that Extreme Programming (XP) is rooted in the principles of Lean Production. XP drastically slims down the development process, but adds extreme customer orientation and extreme ways of quality assurance to the process. The fact that XP and other agile methods in modern software development are based on lean principles explains why agile methods can produce high-quality software in a cost-effective way. The paper also contains a discussion of problems that come up when using XP in practice, and raises important questions about lean methods in software development; for example, whether lean methods scale to large software projects and large software organizations. When trying to answer such questions, software engineering could draw from experience with lean production and lean development in other fields.

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Padberg, F., Tichy, W. Schlanke Produktionsweisen in der modernen Softwareentwicklung. Wirtsch. Inform. 49, 162–170 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11576-007-0046-1

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