Daily Scrums eliminate long elaborate meetings in favor of shorter productive ones. The objective is to provide laser focus to identify issues quickly and productively.

Kim Payne, Senior Project Manager at RSA Corp, shares how custom applications can help a business with their branding in addition to its various other benefits.

Backlogs are used to make projects more efficient and ultimately more successful; meaning more likely to be on-time, on-budget, and exceeding client expectationsThere are two types of Backlogs, Product Backlog and Sprint Backlog. Both have a specific purpose directed toward eliminating waste and maximizing value.

Kim Payne, Senior Project Manager at RSA Corp, explains how using custom applications gives businesses a competitive advantage over those businesses that still use “off-the-shelf” software packages.

Episode #20 – Jason Kuhn, CIO of RSA Corp, discusses how a business can improve their processes using the technology they already own right there at their fingertips.

Episode #18 – Joan Kreidle, Project Manager at RSA Corp, explains how Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) helps to cut costs by streamlining business processes through the management of internal and external resources.

In the previous segment, we discussed iteration cycles and how that they can be used to eliminate waste in the software development process. Standish reports that 64% of software functionality is never or rarely used. By eliminating wasted functionality we can spend 64% more time and money on functionality that adds value and creates ROI. Why waste money and time on functionality that will never be used?

We have been talking about how Agile eliminates waste and adds value to the project process.  Remember the 7W’s (wasters) of lean manufacturing practices: defects, over-production, wait, transportation, movement, inappropriate processing, and excessive stored inventory.
In the previous segment, “How Agile Eliminates Waste (Part 1 of 5)”, we learned how collocated Team Environments eliminates wait time, [...]

Episode #15 – Jeremy Ross, Services Manager at RSA Corp, discusses how successful businesses are properly supported by technology. He explains how to reduce support and hardware costs, what the benefits are from leveraging software as a service, and how businesses can utilize technology to increase productivity.

Over the next coming weeks I will be discussing five ways that the Agile methodology can be applied to the software development process to eliminate waste. We use Agile here at RSA Corp as part of our custom application development methodology.
Waste is defined as anything that does not add value to the final product or service, [...]