How Lean Thinking Transformed Developer Experience at Signaturit Group

Our experience of including Lean Thinking into Developer Experience

After merging several companies, our engineering organization looked like a patchwork.

We had duplicated tech stacks, siloed teams, inconsistent environments, and slow, painful deployments.

Developer productivity was plummeting. Onboarding was frustrating. Morale was shaky.

We didn’t just have tech debt, we had organizational debt.

So we didn’t start with more rules or more tools.

We started by asking a deceptively simple question:

Where’s the waste?

In this article, we are going to cover the following:

• From Manufacturing to Engineering: Why Lean still matters

• What we actually did (And what you can too)

  • Made flow visible with DORA & Value Streams

  • Restructured around Platform Thinking

  • Empowered developers through self-service

  • Simplified and standardized development practices

  • Embedded Continuous Improvement (Kaizen) into Culture

• Real results, measurable impact

• What you can learn from this

• Final Thought