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1. Two hallmarks are Lean are: Foundational lean principles and Delivering customer value.
2. True: Lean and Agile practices share many common objectives, such as delivering customer-centric value, continuous improvements, making information visible, responsiveness, and respect for people.
3. Timeboxed is another word that describes the iterative and incremental delivery process of mainstream Agile frameworks, such as Scrum and BLAST.
4. A Basic Lean-Agile Solutions Team (BLAST) is a framework and pattern language that’s designed to help organizations orchestrate the activities of multiple teams involved in product delivery.
5. Business Agility System for the Enterprise (BASE) is a conceptual model and pattern language that’s designed to help organizations orchestrate the activities of multiple teams involved in product delivery.
6. This book compares the relative strengths of Agile and Lean practices as follows:
   1. Lean’s strength lies in its ability to reduce waste, optimize processes, and drive efficiency across various industries.
   2. Agile applies an iterative development and incremental delivery process that emphasizes activities of multiple teams involved in product delivery.
7. The following nine VSM steps are used to identify and prioritize value stream improvement opportunities:
   1. Embark
   2. Educate
   3. Envision
   4. Examine
   5. Evaluate
   6. Engineer
   7. Execute
   8. Evolve
   9. End
8. VSM concepts originated from Lean manufacturing and were originally referred to as “Material and Information Flow Mapping” at Toyota, where the methods were initially conceived.
9. BRIA is a business intelligence framework that empowers you to define essential information needs. Its important because it helps people at all levels within an organization evaluate the questions they must be able to answer at a moment’s notice, what information they need to answer those questions, what decisions they will need to make, and finally, what actions they should logically take.