“Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software”.
The longer customers have to wait for value to be delivered, the more waste will be incurred in terms of lost time and lost opportunity. The business environment will continue to change, and disruptive competitors may seize the initiative. If a system is allowed to diverge from an evolving and emergent set of requirements, the more likely it is to be viewed as defective when it is finally released. Lean practice is based on delivering the right value, to the right place, at the right time, and at the right level of quality to satisfy customer needs. Requirements are a moving target, and the only thing that genuinely allows us to recalibrate our understanding is the actual release of value. That’s the moment of empirical truth...and the earlier and more often we deliver, the truer to customer needs we can be.