“Software development” this term is so valuable for the software industries and its clients, because this term decides how well they can survive in the market. Development methodology plays an important role in their survival. But as we see in the phase of recession the client wants faster delivery but software industries were unable to deliver and in the result most of the software companies have lost their market share. We saw that during recession some companies were drowning due to the reason of MISSING DEADLINE, OVER DEVELOPMENT, INEFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT and many more. We knew that there are several reasons for the recession in the software market, but the most important thing is to survive in such recession phase by sustaining the customers, by performing orders as early as customer wants and many more. To survive in such conditions we have to rely on lean principles and they will definitely acts as survival tool in recession [1]. Her in this paper we are going to discuss about the term “Kan-ban” which is based on the lean thinking and try to find out the answer “How Kan-ban act as a shield to retain success in the recession phase”?

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