Lean Software Institute | News & Events

March 7, 2007 | SDSIC

Software Supply Chains: Improving Performance

As a result of trends like globalization and outsourcing, more and more of the software being developed today involves multiple companies and subsidiaries. These organizations must collaborate to produce a useful end-product, often across cultural and geographical barriers. Just like in any other industry, there is a supply chain here that must be carefully managed and improved over time. We will discuss how Lean principles and practices can help us analyze and dramatically improve the performance of software supply chains. This session is aimed at executives in mid-sized and larger organizations that outsource software development or practice co-development with partners or other divisions.

You will learn about:

Measuring the performance of software supply chains
Selecting the right partners, suppliers, customers
Mapping the extended software value stream
Common flow bottlenecks and their remedies
Continuous improvement across organization boundaries
Improving trust, accountability, and learning
Managing inventory in software supply chains
Managing business risks in software supply chains
Practices used by industry-leading companies

Where & When:

Program:

Registration:

By phone, call Jill Curson at (858) 793-6655
By email - jill@sdsic.org
Online (recommended): go here

Speaker:

Frode Ødegård is the CEO and founder of the Lean Software Institute. He has more than twenty years of experience as an entrepreneur and trusted advisor to high-tech executives. Organizations Frode has helped include Sony Electronics Inc., NASA, Lockheed Martin, Candle, Conexant Systems, Mindspeed, and Plantronics. Frode is currently writing a book on Lean for the Software Enterprise.
Before founding the Lean Software Institute in 2004, Frode was the CEO and founder of Ødegård Labs, Inc., a software engineering research and consulting firm. Prior to founding Ødegård Labs in 1991, Frode was the CEO of Modula-2 CASE Systems, a Norwegian company developing tools for embedded systems software developers. His interests outside work include history, philosophy, psychology, and strength training.