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May 15, 2008 | Managing Innovation 2008

Lean Development: Process and Product Innovation at Warp Speed

In this mini-workshop aimed at software industry executives, we will reveal management ideas and techniques used by best-in-class companies such as Toyota to accelerate innovation in product development. We have seen organizations reduce product development lead times by as much as 76% using Toyota-inspired Lean practices, and Toyota itself is known to get new cars to market in half the time with half the engineers used by its competitors.

The workshop will focus on how to apply Lean Innovation tools in a software industry facing a recession, an accelerated transition from license to subscription-based revenue models, global development across cultures and time zones, and many other challenges.

Audience:

This session is aimed at a VP-level audience in organizations with several product development teams.

You will learn how to:

Set clear, value-driven goals that enable maximum freedom for innovation
Organize physical workspaces for maximum innovation velocity
Rapidly generate a large number of solution ideas and identify critical issues
Organize specifications to maximize development velocity
Systematically learn from and prevent defects from recurring
Use concurrency to maximize innovation, reduce schedules, and exploit risk
Institute a steady rhythm of reflection and self-improvement for your teams
Map out and pinpoint performance bottlenecks in your development pipeline
Minimize R&D waste while simultaneously stimulating innovation
Scale innovation efficiently to multiple teams, locations, and time zones

Where & When:

Registration: SDSIC Web site

Speaker:

Frode Ødegård is the CEO of the Lean Software Institute. He has more than twenty years of experience as an entrepreneur and trusted advisor to high-tech executives. Organizations he has helped include Sony Electronics Inc., Lockheed Martin, Candle, Conexant Systems, Mindspeed, and Plantronics. Frode is currently writing a book on how Lean Thinking is transforming the Software Industry.