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June 26, 2008 | Executive Lunch Briefing

Lean Software Product Development: Accelerating Innovation, Eliminating Waste

Lean began at Toyota and has since spread to a whole range of industries worldwide. Organizations as diverse as Cardinal Health, Boeing, American Express, General Electric, and Honeywell are using Lean philosophy and practices to achieve breakthrough results.

With software industry leaders like Wipro using Lean, and McKinsey recommending it to CIOs, Lean is becoming more mainstream in the IT sector as well. Organizations implementing Agile development are also increasingly looking to Lean to address challenges with scalability, knowledge management, and alignment across silos.

In this session we will discuss Lean Product Development in IT. Executives are often excited about Lean Product Development because of the bottom-line results this approach has been shown to deliver (up to 4 x R&D productivity, 70% schedule reduction, etc.) We will reveal powerful Lean practices that help IT executives reduce waste and focus their people more on results-oriented innovation. We will then show how this knowledge-driven approach results in better products and processes.

You will learn how to:

Map your product development system from five key perspectives
Pinpoint and diagnose bottlenecks by going beyond processes
Identify and eliminate delays and non-value-added work
Define crystal clear goals that focus your people on customer value
Redesign your product development system for breakthrough results
Introduce an organization-wide continuous innovation process

When & Where:

Hosted by Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
12275 El Camino Real, Suite 200
San Diego, CA 92130

Program:

Registration:

event registration page

Audience:

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

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 he has helped include Sony Electronics Inc., Lockheed Martin, Candle, Conexant Systems, Honeywell Aerospace, and Plantronics. Frode is currently writing a book on how Lean Thinking is transforming the Software Industry.
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, strength training, fencing, and skydiving.