Eliminating Waste in the SDLC
What happens when AI can use your tools. A 10-minute talk applying lean manufacturing principles to AI-augmented software development.
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When AI can use the same tools you use (Jira, GitHub, Sentry), the bottleneck in software development shifts from writing code to everything around the code. This talk applies the Toyota Production System’s waste-elimination framework to an AI-augmented development workflow, showing how MCP tool handoff, Gherkin specifications, and encoded quality gates systematically remove entire categories of waste from the software development lifecycle.
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