Henriette Brand, Theodo

Scrum vs. Lean
Scrum and Lean are often confused terms. Most companies think that they are Lean by implementing Scrum principles. At Theodo, we use daily stand-ups, Burndown Charts, Velocity to track speed, and weekly sprints from the principles of Scrum. We use daily problem solving, Kaizens, and value challenging from the Lean principles. Our “dojo” sessions allow the whole company to challenge the scrum methodology and improve it to fit each specific team.

In this session we will discuss how we took an agile team and made it fully Lean (Kanban mode) while still maintaining a high level of client trust and visibility.

Biography
Hen is a lead agile web developer at Theodo UK, having graduated with a Mathematics degree at the University of Southampton. Hen has implemented lean experiments in the form of Kaizen to find solutions to improve projects and company standards. These Kaizens include decreasing lead time on a project, increasing knowledge sharing company-wide and increasing project’s speed.
Together with Abbie and Kamile, Hen will be talking about how they have used Lean practices to shift the focus from Scrum back to Lean, and from the process back to the people.