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The next hit: How LLMs change the way engineers work

Originally appeared on Aha! Engineering Blog.Some people are drawn to software engineering, and not everyone is like that. But a common characteristic among engineers (myself inclu...

Using Lean Management for Inventory!

What is Lean Management for inventory? What techniques are applied to make it successful? More firms are implementing lean inventory management techniques to reduce costs, improve...

“Write As Little Code As Possible” Was Always the Point. AI Just Made It Urgent.

TL;DR: Write As Little Code As Possible and Agentic Coding Agentic coding tools have collapsed the friction of producing plausible software; output is no longer an issue. However,...

From Lean to Digital Lean: An Evolution of Lean in Food & Beverage

By Chris Kuntz, VP of Strategic Operations, Augmentir  Key takeaways: Traditional Lean runs on paper logs, manual audits, and end-of-shift reports. Digital Lean replaces that with...

Proactive Engineering

Originally appeared on Alchemists: Articles. Proactive Engineering Proactive engineering is the practice — and rigor — of staying atop new technologies, designs, and changes i...

Product-Led Software Delivery: Intelligent Platforms for DevOps at Scale

Editor’s Note: The following is an article written for and published in DZone’s 2026 Trend Report, Platform Engineering and DevOps: How Internal Platforms, Developer Experience, an...

The Cheap Half of Product Was Always the Build

Image In April Marty Cagan published a SVPG piece called Build to Learn vs Build to Earn and most readers filed it under product-coaching content....

‘Write As Little Code As Possible’ Was Always the Point. AI Just Made It Urgent.

TL; DR: Write As Little Code As Possible and Agentic CodingAgentic coding tools have collapsed the friction of producing plausible software; output is no longer an issue. However,...

Lean Agile Practioner - A Scrum Master Competency No One Talks About

When in early 2010's Lyssa Adkins and Michael Spayd came up with the Agile Coaching Competency framework, they clearly mentioned that being a Lean-Agile Practitioner is important f...

Shaping Future Management Systems

Shaping Future Management Systems To remain relevant and competitive, organizations must be open, predictive, and proactive Mark Hembree...

Why “Make It Work, Then Make It Right, Then Make It Fast” Produces Bad Systems at Scale

Kent Beck’s maxim is genuinely good advice for an individual working on a bounded problem. The argument here is that it does not scale — because at large teams and long time horizo...

Most companies think they're building a software factory. They're actually just shipping bugs faster.

Industrialized factories changed how the world produced physical goods: more output, lower costs, faster than anything that came before. Now a similar shift is happening with softw...

Don't Launch to Everyone at Once | CI Change Strategy

  Lynn Kelley had rolled out big organizational changes across 32 countries at Textron. She'd worked with Bell Helicopter, Cessna Aircraft, EZGO Golf Cars, and automotive plants a...

The New SDLC With Vibe Coding

When Lean Becomes Fragile: Why Being “Too Lean” Is Quietly Killing Manufacturing Productivity

When companies only focus on cutting costs instead of keeping processes stable, their systems become too rigid and can break down from even small problems.

What Is A Lean Startup?

In the startup world, there are plenty of ways to burn through cash. Hiring too quickly, building products nobody wants... The post What Is A Lean Startup? appeared first on TechRo...

Your Scrum Team Didn't Get Obsolete. It Got Smaller, Faster, And Aimed At Bigger Work.

Originally published on yuvalyeret.com.TL;DRIn my last article, I walked through how spec-driven development (SDD) and AI coding agents reshape the Scrum events. But there is a mor...

AI Didn't Kill Agile. It Moved the Bottleneck.

Originally published on yuvalyeret.com.TL;DRThere is a popular narrative that AI coding tools and agents are making Agile obsolete. This gets the story exactly backwards: AI isn't...

Best Continuous Improvement Software Lists: How to Read Them

Search "best continuous improvement software," and you'll find roughly forty pages of "Top 10 CI Software for 2026" articles. Click into any five of them. You'll notice a pattern.

Scaling Teams, Scaling Systems: Unlocking Developer Productivity With Platform Engineering

Modern software delivery is complex. Developers are responsible not only for writing code that meets business requirements — both functional and non-functional — but also for navig...

Spec-driven Development Isn't Waterfall - Unless You're Using It That Way

Vibe Coding + Expensive AI Tokens ==> Big Planning Up Front?I was getting frustrated with the dead ends I kept hitting while vibe-coding last summer while developing my own “sco...

DSLs Enable Reliable Use of LLMs

LLMs generate code incredibly fast, but to ensure they generate exactly what is intended, they need clear boundaries. Abstractions and Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs)...

The Keys to Developing Lean Leadership

Why Lean Leadership Matters More Than Ever If you have worked in an organization that has practiced Lean for some time, implemented Kaizen events, and introduced employees to Lean...

Vibe coding works until it doesn't. The debt is real.

Every dev I know is shipping faster than ever. Nobody wants to talk about what the codebase looks like six weeks later. We're in the golden age of AI-assisted development. You can...