Devops for Growth

Hoshin Planning, as it’s also called, consists of 7 points setting the direction of improvement initiatives, which unify a company’s organizational strategy.

Hoshin Kanri is the most powerful tool to get everyone on board and aligned behind your company strategy. It is the Lean methodology for strategy deployment and continuous improvement at the organizational level. Everything I say in this article about Lean applies equally to Agile. These are different approaches to achieving the same end. The main difference is that Agile appeared as an evolution of Lean to tackle main problems in software development. Lean, instead covers the whole organization, including software development too. Global Competition In this world of truly global competition, technology disruption and volatility, there is an ever-changing