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The Big Orange Square company is based on the principles of Lean, Agile, Scrum and eXtreme Programming – a mix often seen in software development. Just like in software development, success depends on doing it right, and rigor is an important component of becoming successful in product development.
In an overview form, this is how the components hang together.
Using Scrum as the carrier framework:
The Product Backlog holds all the work related to creating the product, Lean describes ways to create the backlog (A3, …) and OOD Patterns do the same (…). Sprint Planning has an XP representation (Planning Game) and some of the practices describe how the Sprint Backlog is created (Whole Team, …). The Sprint is few weeks in which the Development Team creates the Increment, XP describes practices (…) and Lean describes ways to inspect the process (A3, Walk the Floor, …) and how to report about the process (Burn-down, Burn-up, Taskboard, …), OOD has patterns for good development. The resulting Product Increment is inspected in the Review meeting, supported with Lean practices (…). The Retrospective is a Scrum meeting.
The core principle of Agile Product Development and Lean Product Development is People and Interactions over … – this thinking defines the role of management within Product Development.