Ismaël Hery, LeMonde.fr

A new software product development project may be considered as “done” when the users are satisfied and when the cost of operations is known and under control (aka “product market fit” in Eric Ries terminology). How to get to that point as fast as possible considering the risky and diverse activities of design and user experience, software development and operation in production? Based on stories from recent new software products developed at Le Monde, it appears that spreading and leveling learning on the various project activities from the first day on, helps...

Benoît Charles-Lavauzelle, Theodo

How does Lean management help the startups grow? According to Benoît Charles-Lavauzelle, co-founder and CEO of mobile and web dev start up Theodo, the Lean practice is the perfect approach CEOs need to solve the issues their fast growing startups are faced with. He explained the benefits in terms of turnover growth as well as strategic alignment, team empowerment, anxiety transformed into creativity, ability to focus on the right issues and to solve them. He also explained why Lean management is complementary to Agile software development. Biography Benoît...

Carlos Condé, Amazon Web Services

Whether you are launching a new business idea, or expanding to new geo markets or releasing new software or service, it’s important to experiment often and fail quickly. In order to accelerate innovation in this highly competitive and uncertain market, you need to lower the cost of failure and increase the speed of innovation. In this session, will share some of the lessons learned at Amazon and from the customers using Amazon Web Services (AWS) on how you can leverage the powerful nature of on-demand cloud computing and data-driven decision making to evolve your...

Sari Torkkola, Patria

Three years ago I had a successful career behind me. I was CIO of a defence and aerospace company running the corporate IT. I had great people in my team but they were burning out due to constant fire fighting and internal customers who after several gigantic improvement projects, concluded the service level as “IT sucks”. I then had to admit the traditional way of managing did not produce results for anybody. I started to look for something totally different and ended up googling the word “Lean” in October 2011. At first, I asked the supervisors in my team to...

Fred Mathijssen, Nike

3 years ago, the focus on Lean revealed the need for more visual management and day-to-day insight into the status and progress of the project management group within Nike Technology. The journey Nike Europe’s Tech department went through since that moment into the now, where the Obeya visualizes how Nike Tech aligns to Nike’s strategy supported by programs, our portfolio, key metrics, and a structured review process with our GEO and Global business partners – has been challenging, encouraging, fun… The journey has just begun! Biography As Senior Director of...

Pierre Masai, Toyota Motor Europe

Hoshin Kanri literally means “Compass Management”. Its main purpose is to agree the direction at each level of the company in a way that leaves both latitude to operational units – IT included – to formulate their own plans, and to align them horizontally and vertically from the top company direction to the employees and back (“catchball process”). Pierre Masai will share insights and explain concretely how this process works at Toyota, including at the IT function he leads, but also the experiment he conducted to support the Hoshin process of any organization...