Lean IT Leadership – the essential...

Leaders and Managers have specific roles to play in support of a Lean IT transformation. Unfortunately, many Lean IT initiatives are hindered by Leaders who delegate their role and/or Managers who unintentionally disable the effort. This scenario always ends with disappointing results at best, and an alienated, bitter IT staff (and their customers) at worst. The problem lies not in what Leaders and Managers wish to achieve in their organization, it lies in what they focus on and how they go about positioning their people for success. Hundreds of books have been written on...

Unleash your team’s creativity usi...

How the Lean approach can enhance the creativity of your software development team? What is at stake for your company and your customers? How Lean Management can speed up this creativity process? During this session, the co-founder of BG2AA startup will present how the lean approach was implemented to design a multi-tenant Software As A Service (SAAS) business management platform built on cloud technologies. Through concrete examples, he explains how visual management, five whys, kaizen, A3 report, PDCA … are powerful quality catalysts....

Leveraging Lean for IT and research tran...

In 2012, the IT division of a U.S. national research and development laboratory with over 4,500 staff began their Lean IT journey. After working with Mike Orzen, a pioneer in Lean IT, the organization is learning to embrace small incremental change, trial and discovery, and value the answer to the question “what did we learn?” There is an metaphor that says, “the best way to eat an elephant is one bite at a time,” but our tendency is to bite off more than we can chew often leading to failed deployments, partially or improperly built solutions or...

How we used Lean Software Development pr...

On the way to develop their Lectra PLM solution, the teams at Lectra encountered the same problems and obstacles that other software houses do: delays, quality and costs issues, problems in integrating customer feedback. The Lean Software Development project was introduced to tackle these issues. Deploying the new approach was a real challenge due to the scale (70+ people involved) and the number of various technologies involved. Yet we achieved results we never had before: we delivered a complete and comprehensive version of our software solution on time with a quality...

Gemba walks in IT project management:

A domain manager in the IT department of a large Italian bank, is learning to see waste in her IT operations, and realizing that the gemba reality is often different from what she ever imagined. Learning to see in IT is not easy. Knowing which questions to ask, where to look and what to explore deeper is a technique one acquires by practicing over and over. But you can only make better decisions after you’ve been there. ...