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...

Sandrine Olivencia

Sandrine Olivencia is a lean IT coach specializing in improving the performance of IT organizations. She has coached dozens of teams (software and operations) in using the Obeya method to deliver high quality products in time and budget, in both co-located and distributed contexts. She also coaches managers and CIOs in using Obeya to manage their whole department, and develop collaboration and customer-focused teams. Sandrine has been teaching and practicing the obeya project management method for 6 years. She has been teaching obeya at Centrale Marseille, ESIEE and...

Problem solving dojo

Want to improve your problem solving skill in an IT environment? Looking for a fresh way to solve a vexing issue you are facing right now? Come to the Problem Solving Dojo, an interactive workshop where participants hone their PDCA thinking under a Lean IT expert’s supervision. Antoine Contal is a Lean IT coach and board director of the Agile France Association. He wrote the first French book about Lean IT.

How can we really build delightful produ...

Prof.Daniel Jones, Michael Ballé, Takashi Tanaka, Régis Medina, Steve Bell, Mike Orzen, Hakan Forss, Laurent Bossavit and Antoine Contal. The lean founders and agile gurus will answer the question: How can we really build delightful products with lean and agile?...