Lean Software Institute | News & Events

July 11, 2007 | SDSIC

Knowledge-Driven Product Development

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.) With industry leaders like Wipro using Lean, and a recent McKinsey whitepaper recommending it to CIOs, Lean is now becoming more mainstream.

While improvements in speed, customer satisfaction, and cost savings are well-documented, the real power of Lean Development stems from the way leaders are able to mobilize people for faster learning and innovation. In this in-depth session, we will discuss powerful Lean practices that help executives focus their people more on results-oriented innovation and less on just following a process. We will then show how this knowledge-driven approach results in better products and processes.

Audience:

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

You will learn about:

Setting clear, quantifiable, and testable goals for products and processes
How to avoid costly start-up delays for new projects
Going beyond processes: three other dimensions of R&D success
Set-Based Concurrent Engineering: doing more work in parallel with less risk
How to structure specs and information for faster decision-making
Setting up collaborative workspaces for faster problem-solving
Removing barriers between functional silos
Capturing and documenting crucial Engineering know-how
Accelerating learning for teams and individuals
Leadership traits that help/hurt innovation and learning
How to put your organization on a path of continuous improvement

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 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.