Saturday, April 09, 2005

The Problem

$59.5 Billion is wasted every year! The U.S. gross domestic product loses 0.6% a year because of software defects. Currently, over half of all errors are not found until 'downstream' or during post-sale software use. This occurs even though vendors already spend 80% of development costs on defect removal.

The software industry is becoming increasingly interested in removing defects after the defects are created. A focus on defect removal sounds like a good idea. But what if the defects are not created in the first place? What would that be worth?�� Is it realistic to suggest that software can be built without defects� Teams using Lean Software Development are demonstrating that it can be done. To see what we mean by Lean, let's start with what is not Lean.
We'll save that for the next post ...