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December 6, 2006 | SDSIC

Lean Strategies for Accelerating Software Development

In this mini-seminar we will discuss several powerful Lean strategies and techniques that can help you reduce software development schedules by as much 70% while also reducing costs and improving quality. This event is targeted at senior management in software companies with at least three development teams.

You will learn about:

Measuring your software development speed and capacity
Common challenges that reduce speed and capacity
Identifying, quantifying, and ranking your execution bottlenecks
Synchronizing Customers, Sales, Support, Marketing, Engineering, and QA
Synchronizing Teams, Architectures, Processes, and Specs
How to avoid product features that add little or no customer value
Reducing time & money expended on bug fixing (typically 50% of capacity)
Using a cross-functional team to quickly implement improvements
Setting up automated real-time progress tracking for your development pipelines

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 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.