Lean Tools - Software Configuration Management

* Visual Control Charts:
For important / critical CIs - have visual control charts with information of: CI version, CI status (checked-in, out) ,Person working on CI, Changes being made to CI, Expected date of completion, % completion, storage location of CI, etc.

* 5S:
To establish configuration management process - as per my earlier blog

* DSM (Design Structure Matrix):
To understand the dependencies of CIs and complexity wrt - # of CIs having same cluster, # of people working on the same CIs, etc. Following are the other benefits you may achieve using DSM:

1. Creating teams / modules - depending upon the CI cluster
2. CI dependecies / Impact Analysis
3. CI complexity - Higher the CI interaction, higher is the complexity
4. Planning / scheduling of CI work
5. CIs that can be developed in Parallel - Concurrent Engineering