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.
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Lean and Agile
IT managers who want to improve their software development activities are quickly faced with the “Lean or Agile?” question. Are lean and agile the same thing? Should we deploy agile before implementing lean? Having been on both sides of the table, Régis will share what he has learned so far about both approaches, and how best to use them to create high performance software development organizations. Lean or Agile: using kanban to build in ...
In lean, kanban is a kaizen tool to reach single-piece flow, and so build in quality through Jidoka. In other words, kanban is a learning tool. In agile, kanbans and burn-down charts are often used as execution tools to make the process more agile, but without any direct impact on quality. By rethinking the underlying principles of kaban and built-in quality we can shift the focus back on product quality in development projects. How to build-in quality into design, and why using kaban properly really matters. Built in Quality by Michael Ballé – Lean IT Summit...