Lean Software Development
It's easy for a team to confuse activity with progress. This course gives developers, technical leaders, and teams a practical lens for telling the difference — integrating lean principles with agile engineering practices to cut waste, build quality in from the start, and get to a sustainable pace that actually ships better software faster.
$400 · Taught by Paul Moore, Certified Scrum Trainer · Digital badge, 5 SEUs & PDUs, and a 2-year Scrum Alliance membership included
Upcoming classes
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Streamline software development, reduce waste, and deliver value faster with Lean principles, boosting customer satisfaction and your competitive edge. Learn practical strategies to optimize workflow and build higher quality software in this essential class for forward-thinking organizations.
Bringing a team? We also run private courses tailored to your organization. Contact us for more info →
The credential
Lean Software Development is an official Scrum Alliance microcredential in the Technical Literacy track. Attend both live sessions, participate, and it's yours — no exam, no follow-up assignment.
What you'll learn
Scrum Alliance's official curriculum for this microcredential, covering the mindset, the mechanics, and the people side of lean software development.
Module 01
The core concepts underneath lean software development, and why each principle matters on its own before you try to apply them together.
Module 02
How lean and agile practices mitigate waste in traditional development, why building quality in beats fixing defects later, and what "deferring commitment" actually replaces.
Module 03
How creating knowledge and respecting people show up in practice, and how to measure improvement and plan the optimization work that follows.
Who it's for
Lean Software Development focuses on both the technical practices and the management approaches that support them — built for individual contributors and the leaders of software organizations alike.
Wanting a sharper lens for telling valuable work from busywork, and the practices that build quality in from the start.
Looking for ways to surface hidden bottlenecks and systemic friction that standard velocity metrics miss.
Responsible for a sustainable delivery pace, and wanting a model that connects technical practice to organizational optimization.
Wanting to recognize waste and inefficiency in the requirements and handoff process, not just in code.
Learning where defects actually originate in the process, so quality gets built in rather than inspected in afterward.
Bringing a lean lens into organizations that already know Scrum but haven't yet connected it to reducing waste at the system level.
Straight answer on prerequisites: there are none, though some basic familiarity with Scrum is recommended. Programming skills aren't required — this course focuses on principles and practices anyone shaping how software gets built can apply.
Your seat
One day, one credential, and a standing invitation to keep working on it with us.
The official Scrum Alliance Lean Software Development microcredential — shareable the day you finish.
Professional membership included with your seat — community, resources, and member pricing for two full years.
Members earn five Scrum Education Units and five PMI Professional Development Units, applicable to your certification renewals.
Keep coming back. Bring the workflow you're actually trying to streamline and work it through with Paul and other practitioners.
Your trainer
Agile Technical Coach · Certified Scrum Trainer
Paul is an expert Agile Technical Coach dedicated to restoring the "engineering" in software engineering. With decades of hands-on experience in high-stakes development environments, he doesn't just teach theory — he focuses on the hard technical skills required to build maintainable, high-quality software. As a guide for thousands of developers worldwide, he bridges the gap between abstract Agile concepts and the daily reality of writing code, helping teams deliver value faster and with greater confidence.
Questions
A set of practices, adapted from lean manufacturing, aimed at increasing efficiency and eliminating anything customers wouldn't perceive as adding value. The course is built around seven guiding principles: eliminate waste, build quality in, create knowledge, defer commitment, deliver fast, respect people, and optimize the whole.
No formal prerequisites, though some basic familiarity with Scrum is recommended. Programming skills aren't required — developers, managers, and leaders in software organizations all get value from the material.
No exam. Attend the live session and participate, and we register you for the Scrum Alliance Lean Software Development microcredential. Your digital badge follows shortly after.
One 5-hour live virtual session covering lean core concepts, eliminating waste, and the people-and-knowledge side of continuous improvement. It's interactive by design, so plan on cameras on and bring real examples of waste from your own workflow.
Yes — Scrum Alliance members earn 5 SEUs for this course, and it's also eligible for 5 PMI PDUs, both applicable toward your existing certification renewals. Your seat also includes a two-year Scrum Alliance membership.
Yes, and for this course it's often the stronger choice — a private session lets your whole engineering org apply the lean lens to your actual value stream, together. Email hello@rocketninesolutions.com and we'll put together a plan.
Still deciding?
Not sure whether this is the right level for your team? Describe your workflow and where you suspect the waste is hiding, and we'll give you a straight answer.
Email us your question →Private & corporate training
Run the session against your team's actual value stream and leave with a shared vocabulary for waste, flow, and quality — instead of a few scattered habits.
Request a private class →One afternoon, one credential, and a practical lens for cutting waste and building quality in from the start. Pick your dates.