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November 19, 2007 | SDSIC

From Agile to Lean: How to begin your Lean Journey

Agile practitioners are often eager to begin using Lean practices, but struggle with an array of issues, including vague requirements, group/department boundaries, and securing buy-in. In this session we will provide an introduction to Lean principles and practices, and specifically focus on how organizations using Agile methods can begin to take advantage of Lean. This will be an interactive session, so bring your question and concerns and expect lively discussion.

Audience:

This session is aimed at director and VP level managers in IT organizations and software companies that are already using Agile methods, but would like to improve speed, scalability, capacity, and quality. Those attending are expected to have some awareness of Lean already. In order to facilitate open peer discussion among the participants, service providers and consultants may not attend this session.

You will learn about:

Going beyond user stories/use cases to quantify what really adds customer value
Determining what activities and practices that really add value
Understanding just how much documentation you need, where, and when
Defect prevention as a strategy to increase development capacity
Why defects should not the primary focus for testing
Refocusing testing on generating valuable information for your development/design process
Mapping your development value streams to find and address your real bottlenecks
Synchronizing upstream and downstream work, and synchronizing multiple teams
Making Toyota-style continuous improvement part of your culture
Bridging the gap between Engineering/IT and Business Goals
How to secure management buy-in

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.