--- title: The Lean Tech Manifesto • Fabrice Bernhard & Steve Pereira description: Fabrice Bernhard, co-founder of Theodo and co-author of the Lean Tech Manifesto, discusses how lean thinking can scale agile principles across large... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-lean-tech-manifesto-fabrice-bernhard-steve-pereira-vob8g4nhn twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The Lean Tech Manifesto • Fabrice Bernhard & Steve Pereira | daily.dev og:description: Fabrice Bernhard, co-founder of Theodo and co-author of the Lean Tech Manifesto, discusses how lean thinking can scale agile principles across large... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-lean-tech-manifesto-fabrice-bernhard-steve-pereira-vob8g4nhn og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/VOb8G4Nhn.png og:image:alt: The Lean Tech Manifesto • Fabrice Bernhard & Steve Pereira og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The Lean Tech Manifesto • Fabrice Bernhard & Steve Pereira **[GOTO Conferences](https://daily.dev/sources/goto)** · 33 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Fabrice Bernhard, co-founder of Theodo and co-author of the Lean Tech Manifesto, discusses how lean thinking can scale agile principles across large organizations. The conversation covers the origin of the book, the relationship and overlap between lean and agile, common misconceptions about both methodologies, and the concept of tech-enabled networks of teams. Bernhard shares a real-world case study of building a COVID-era government loan platform that scaled to 300 people, using kanban, modular architecture, and systematic defect analysis to restore 40 daily deployments. Key leadership takeaways include visual management, going to the gemba (shop floor), and coaching teams on problem solving. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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