Khuloud Odeh, Urban Institute

The power of Lean to modernize mission-driven organizations What can Lean teach us about the improvement of non-profit business processes? In 2014, The Urban Institute, the Social & Economic Policy Research Center based in Washington DC in the US, turned to Lean to help modernize organizational processes from the inside out, beginning with their grant and contract proposal development process. Responding to requests for proposals is the primary method for Urban to obtain new projects and funding, and it was identified by 68% of surveyed staff as being challenging,...

Jez Humble, DevOps Research and Assessme...

Implementing Continuous Delivery   Biography: Jez Humble is co-author of The DevOps Handbook, Lean Enterprise, and the Jolt Award winning Continuous Delivery. He has spent his career tinkering with code, infrastructure, and product development in companies of varying sizes across three continents. He is currently researching how to build high performing teams, and helping to create a cloud platform for government. He works at 18F, teaches at UC Berkeley, and is co-founder of DevOps Research and Assessment LLC. Follow Jez on...

Kent Beck

Extreme Programming, Twenty Years Later Extreme Programming introduced a contrary set of values, principles, and practices to the software engineering world. Twenty years later, some of the material is still state-of-the-art, some is passe’, and some would still be, if embraced, shocking and revolutionary. This talk reviewed what I got right, what I got wrong, and what I’m still working on. Extreme Programming, 20 years later by Kent Beck from Institut Lean France Biography Kent Beck has been a programmer coach at Facebook for four years. He is the author...

Malika Mir, Ipsen

Obeya as a management system for CIOs Malika Mir, CIO and Head of Digital for IPSEN Pharmaceutical, is using obeya to lead her department. She has setup obeya rooms in every one of her business units to manage project portfolios, and improve quality, delivery speed and customer satisfaction. She’s seeing a new organisation emerge with collaborating teams having a higher customer focus, simpler management processes, and improved work standards with IT suppliers. Malika has her own obeya she uses on a regular basis to coach her first-line managers in problem solving....