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November 30, 2006 | AeA Product Development Roundtable

Competitive Software Development using Lean

In this session we will discuss Lean Software Management and provide strategies that you can use to become more competitive as a software company or high-tech company producing software. You will learn how to reduce software development schedules by as much 70% while also reducing costs and improving quality. Our discussion is aimed at VP-level management.

You will learn about:

Determining your competitive strengths and weaknesses
Identifying and quantifying product development bottlenecks
Synchronizing Customers, Sales, Support, Marketing, Engineering, and QA
Reducing time & money expended on bug fixing (typically 50% of capacity)
How to avoid product features that add little or no customer value
Adapting Lean concepts like “flow”, “batch size” and “just-in-time” to software
Using a cross-functional team to quickly implement improvements

Where & When:

Program:

Registration:

By phone, call Susana Capulong at (858) 452-9288 x100
By email - susana_capulong@aeanet.org
Online (recommended for AeA member companies): go here

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 Frode has helped include Sony Electronics Inc., NASA, Lockheed Martin, Candle, Conexant Systems, Mindspeed, and Plantronics. Frode is currently writing a book on Lean for the Software Enterprise.
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, and strength training.