Emmanuel Richard, BNP Paribas

While pulling the flow is a renowned key to lean improvements in industry, it is rarely seen in the world of IT. BNP Paribas’ central IT department decided experiment it in order to see what could be gained of this. Beyond the many difficulties it raised, the results materialized not only in dramatic operational improvements, but also in new lessons learned from this way of producing value for the customer. This presentation replicates the exact same working conditions the team faced throughout the project, thus inviting the audience to a personal journey inside this...

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...

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...

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.