- You are building a large product and you want to give your customers high visibility into your progress before you deliver.
- You operate an online service or application and you want to deliver frequent product enhancements to your users.
- You are building to schedule and you want to deliver the maximum value in the time available with minimum risk.
- Your product requires professional contributions from people with non-overlapping skill sets (artists, engineers, subject matter experts) who have to coordinate with each other in order to deliver anything.
- You outsource some part of your development process.
- You have technology suppliers.
- You are a technology supplier.
- Your old product requires maintenance while your new products are under development.
- You care about time to market for new features.
- You have a competitor.
If you don’t have any of these problems, then maybe you don’t need Lean.
Aaron | 10-Jan-09 at 10:08 am | Permalink
Gosh, hardly anybody has any of these concerns! I think they are not necessarily problems, however. Delivering maximum value in the smallest scope. Nice post, Corey.