Abstract
Contemporary organizations dealing with software development are under immense pressure to deliver their software products quickly, within the prescribed time frame, and with the highest quality and lowest cost, knowledge working involves more dynamicity, invisibility, and uniqueness. To remain competitive, organizations are trying out the principles and concepts of lean thinking (LT), which were highly successful in the manufacturing sector, to improve their software development process (SDP). This led to the development of a new paradigm called lean software development (LSD). A literature review revealed that not many studies were available describing the implementation of LT from the perspective of an Indian context, although India is considered to be a preferred outsourcing destination for IT solutions. Furthermore, the review also revealed that application of value stream mapping (VSM)—a key tool in the armory of LT—is sparsely applied in the software sector. Hence, the objective of this study is no...
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