David Bogaerts, ING Bank

David Bogaerts, ING Bank

The ING Bank case study: In 2010 we started working Agile in our Internet Banking department (28 teams & 220 employees) and created nice results. It felt however as if we kept banging our heads against big issues all the time. Introducing technical improvements only helped to solve part of our issues, however we never seemed to get away from trouble shooting. Slowly we started to realize that if we wanted to make real progress, we had to deal with the real root cause: us as a management team. Organize ourselves as management and have the discipline of not disturbing...
Régis Medina, Institut Lean France

Régis Medina, Institut Lean France

Régis is the main Lean IT expert in Europe. As a Lean coach specializing in IT projects, and a Partner at Operae Partners, he has been coaching teams for the past 6 years, helping them deliver their projects on time, with the expected quality and constantly focusing on the users’needs. Based on his coaching experience, he co-authored the first book in French about the practice of Lean management in IT: “La pratique du lean management dans l’IT”. Precursor of Agile software development in France, he has co-authored the first book about Agile in...
Martin Chmelar, Tieto

Martin Chmelar, Tieto

For the last six years, Martin has been working as a Lean and Agile coach, mentor and consultant in Tieto, which is an IT company with 18 000 employees distributed over the world. He lives with Tieto teams and helps them and their customers achieve their goals, deliver more value, solve problems and improve efficiency, productivity and quality via adoption of Lean & Agile principles, practices and tools. Typical activities are coaching, facilitating Kaizen workshops and root cause analysis, training, problem solving and practice adoption. And, of course, encouraging...
Philippe Blayo, France Billet

Philippe Blayo, France Billet

Philippe is a developer at ticketing service company France Billet. He has been gradually using Agile practices since 2001. He started his Lean journey in 2009, searching for a better way to do continuous improvement in software development. In 2010, along with Antoine Contal, he co-founded an A3 Lean-Agile community with support from the Agile Alliance. See the session about Agile and A3 Back to list of...
Richard Mathis, MEI

Richard Mathis, MEI

After 7 years as a software architect, Richard became the manager of the recognition software department at MEI. For 4 years Richard has been applying Lean principles to the department’s current activities. Richard’s presentation covers the significant challenges and successes at increasing productivity when faced with substantial growth expectations. See the session about Doubling the output of the team and still freeing up resources for the future Back to list of...