Explain at least two differences of lean versus agile performance management

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PARTICULARS	LEAN	AGILE
APPROACH	Lean provides a Holistic approach to make an Organization or process more effective and efficient. lean is more like a philosophy which has different philosophy of cultural change, mindset change along with the tool kit embedded in it.	it is based on the philosophy of efficient project management specific to application development. Agile is more of a technique suitable for the software development industry
INDUSTRIES	Lean as a methodology can be used for any industry / business / domain	Agile is specific to increasing the speed of application development in software industry
TOOL KIT	Lean has a brad range of tool kit such as value steam map(VSM), waste analysis, kanban, heijunka , jidoka , multitasking , supermarket , visual management , empowerment etc...	Agile uses a set of tool kit primarily taken from Lean. Some lean tools being used in Agile development are multitasking, kanban, empowerment, visual management etc...
METHOD	it is strategic	it is tactical
CONCERNS	optimization of Production Process	optimization of development process
BORN IN	born in industrial sector with the intention of production system more efficient	born in creative and software development environment
QUALITY	Perfect quality	acceptable quality
	emphazise on efficient use of resources	emphazis on continuous changes
	mass production	mass customisation
	minimum inventory	inventory buffer

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