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This research has been partially funded by the Regional Government of Madrid under the FORTE-CM project (S2018/TCS-4314) and the Spanish Ministry of Business and Economics under the MADRID project (TIN2017-88557-R).

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Marcos Martínez, EsperanzaAuthorGranada Mejía, Juan DavidAuthorVara Mesa, Juan ManuelAuthor

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September 27, 2022
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Lean Kanban in an industrial context: a success story

Publicated to:Proceedings - International Conference On Software Engineering. 282-283 - 2020-01-01 (), DOI: 10.1145/3377812.3390904

Authors: Pato, Roberto Hens; Granada, David; Vara, Juan M; Marcos, Esperanza

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ALTEN, Madrid, Spain - Author
Univ Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain - Author

Abstract

Even though Lean principles have already been broadly applied to the manufacturing industry [1] , we cannot say the same regarding software development. The objective of this article is therefore to present a real experience where the Lean Kanban method [2] was applied by a software development team from an IT consulting firm. The team (7 people) is responsible for the maintenance of internal management applications at a large governmental organization (over 4,000 employees). It had to combine new evolutionary developments with corrective maintenance and incident resolution within the production area of 20 to 25 information systems with heterogeneous purposes and technologies.

Keywords

Consulting firmsCorrective maintenanceEvolutionary developmentHuman resource managementIndustrial contextLean, kanban, continuous improvement, outsourcingManagement applicationsManufacturing industriesProduction areaSoftware designSoftware development teams

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Proceedings - International Conference On Software Engineering due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency Scopus (SJR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2020, it was in position , thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Software.

Independientemente del impacto esperado determinado por el canal de difusión, es importante destacar el impacto real observado de la propia aportación.

Según las diferentes agencias de indexación, el número de citas acumuladas por esta publicación hasta la fecha 2025-07-05:

  • WoS: 1
  • Scopus: 1

Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-07-05:

  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 30 (PlumX).

Leadership analysis of institutional authors

This work has been carried out with international collaboration, specifically with researchers from: France.