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Lean Software Management Strategies

San Diego, California - September 26, 2007, 8:30am-5pm

In this in-depth seminar, you will learn about strategies and principles that will help you reduce development schedules by up to 70%, while reducing costs and improving quality. Using Lean strategies helps you avoid non-value-added work, improve innovation capacity, and deliver more value to your customers.

You will learn about:

Quickly diagnosing your execution challenges

Why as much as 95% of your delivery time may be non-value-added
Identifying, quantifying, and ranking your execution bottlenecks (waste)

Implementing remedies to respond faster to customer needs

Setting clear, quantifiable goals for products and processes
Focusing on customer value, avoiding features that add little or no value
Reducing delays and rework due to defects (often 50% of cost, effort)
Accelerated problem-solving with collaborative workspaces
Reducing schedule and risk with Set-Based Concurrent Engineering
Overcoming barriers between departments, groups, and teams
Removing non-value-added activities to reduce delivery time, effort, and cost
Eliminating sources of wait time (e.g. queues and capacity imbalances)
Just-in-time response to customer demand instead of plan-driven work
Providing real-time insight into actual progress for teams and executives

Making changes stick, going beyond initial improvements

Establishing a continuous process of reflection, learning, and improvement
Overcoming leadership challenges that hamper organizational learning
Using Lean to take your existing Agile or CMMI efforts to the next level
Applying Lean strategies to outsourcing and distributed development

Audience:

This event is targeted at managers and senior management in software companies and IT organizations that are under pressure to deliver quality software at a faster pace. Bring your own projects to work on and leave the seminar with actionable ideas for how you can deliver faster, improve customer satisfaction, and prevent defects.

Detailed PDF seminar brochure

Where & When:

September 26, 2007, 8:30am-5pm

Hosted by Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
12255 El Camino Real, Suite 300
San Diego, CA 92130

Program schedule:

Registration and breakfast opens at 8:30am, and we begin the seminar at 9am. The lunch break is at noon, and there will be mid-morning and afternoon breaks as well. We will end promptly at 5pm.

Registration and location:

Attendance is strictly limited to only twenty participants to facilitate peer interaction, so we recommend registering early! The seminar fee of $495 includes handouts, breakfast, lunch, snacks, and beverages. An Early Bird discount of $100 applies if you register before September 8, 2007.

To secure your seat, go to our online registration page.

Our policy on cancellations and substitutions can be found here.

For further questions, please email us at events@leansoftwareinstitute.com or call us at (858) 964-5133.

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.
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 and founder of Modula-2 CASE Systems A/S, a Norwegian company building next-generation tools for embedded software developers.