#24 Bob Familiar, Lean Engineering

Summary Bob Familiar and I discuss how to bring the principles of lean engineering to the enterprise. Details About Bob and BlueMetal Inc; time at Microsoft; what is lean engineering, origins, just in time, small batches, failing fast, continuous improvement, applicability to software; batching and automation of the software process, continuous delivery, failing fast "common sense is hard to come by"; over lap with dev ops; build, measure and learn; principle of lean - "seeing the whole" vs "deciding as late as possible", comparison with Agile; leveraging cloud as part of lean; bring lean to large enterprises; changing behaviour instead of thinking, change in small steps, easier for an external party to bring change; patterns, micro-service architecture, deployment pipeline pattern, strangler pattern.