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What is Lean Tech®?

The rise of AI reinforces our conviction that technology can help address the greatest challenges of our time. It creates new opportunities to design and deploy ingenious, sustainable solutions that deliver value for customers, patients, and citizens.

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We believe in the Lean Tech® System: a strategy that combines the speed of the world's leading technology companies with the discipline and operational excellence of Toyota's Lean Management.

What is Lean Tech®?

The rise of AI reinforces our conviction that technology can address the major challenges of our time. It offers the opportunity to design and deploy ingenious, sustainable solutions in service of clients, patients and citizens.

We believe in the Lean Tech® System: a strategy that combines the speed of the world’s best technology companies with the rigour of Toyota’s Lean Management.

They talk about Lean Tech® Manifesto

“After more than twenty years, it was clear that the Agile Manifesto needed Kaizen.This book is doing exactly that, based on the rare experience of a tech company that has combined agility with the genuine Toyota Production System (Lean), implemented thoroughly with some of the best sensei. I highly recommend it.”

“Scaling your business while remaining agile can feel like an impossible task, but fear not! Fabrice and Benoît have developed a practical playbook that is based on their deep experience, providing you with the tools you need to continue to reap the benefits of Lean as your business grows.”

“This is an important book. It describes the business system that organizations around the world so desperately need, and it reminds us that when it comes to solving the complex and urgent problems of our time, human decision-making and teamwork are just as important as technology.”

"If you are adopting Agile across your organization, but sense that something vital may be missing from your approach, this is an important book for you. Within these pages you will find a wealth of ideas that may lead you to discover solutions for your particular challenges."

"Le Lean Tech® est une vraie démarche structurante qui nous a permis de livrer dans les temps et dans le budget un produit répondant aux besoins de nos clients  et aligné avec l’exigence patrimoniale de notre marque."

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The pillars of Lean Tech®

Value for the customer

Clarifying the value sought by end users aligns the entire organisation, from tech teams to executive committees, around a shared compass. It keeps us from wasting time on elegant but useless solutions, and pushes us to deliver early what truly matters.
What changes: we stop talking about "features" and start talking about impact. We build an organisation oriented around problems to solve rather than roadmaps to execute.

Right-First-Time

In a Lean Tech® organisation, quality is not a phase that comes after development. It is a requirement built in from the very start. We put practices in place to detect errors as early as possible, address root causes and prevent them from recurring: Dantotsu, code reviews, TDD, automation, observability tools.
What changes: fewer bugs, less rework, teams proud of their product and customers satisfied over the long term, at every level.

Just-In-Time

This pillar aims to synchronise the organisation’s efforts with real customer demand. It relies on a pull-based workflow, work-in-progress limits, reduced feature inventory and short delivery cycles. Teams learn to deliver just what is needed, at the right time, without overload or bottlenecks.
What changes: faster learning from the market, without compromising on quality. Greater predictability, smoother flow.

Building a Learning Organisation

Finally, Lean Tech® is a learning system. Where many organisations lock themselves into rigid processes, Lean Tech® keeps improving continuously, based on real problems encountered in the field. Teams are trained in problem-solving, standards stay alive, knowledge is actively shared, and improvements are driven by those doing the work.
What changes: every problem becomes an opportunity to improve. The organisation grows smarter as it scales and stays flexible in meeting customer needs.

Tech-Enabled Network of Teams

A Lean Tech® organisation is a network of autonomous, accountable and interconnected teams, supported by high-performing tech tools and a modular architecture. Each team can deliver value end to end, without depending on centralised processes.
What changes: fewer silos, greater responsiveness. Teams no longer suffer from complexity.

To go further

The Lean Tech Manifesto

Learn the secrets of tech leaders to grasp the full benefits of Agile at scale - Fabrice Bernhard & Benoît Charles-Lavauzelle

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Grow a fast and resilient company - Catherine Chabiron, Regis Medina, Antoine Haguenauer

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16 June 2026

#57 - Scaling means growing without compromising quality - With Benoît Charles-Lavauzelle, Co-founder and CEO of Theodo Group

Benoît Charles-Lavauzelle, co-founder and CEO of Theodo Group, shares how he and Fabrice Bernhard transformed a Parisian startup into a leading technology consulting firm: with over 700 employees across the UK, France, Morocco, and South Africa, €90M in revenue, and clients such as BNP Paribas, Contentsquare, Dior, ManoMano, Safran, and Qonto. He discusses Theodo's business model, the transition from fixed-price to agile and then to Lean, and his pioneering vision for applying Lean thinking to the tech industry, which is central to his book, Lean Tech Manifesto.

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