Sudip Pal, Ericsson India Global Service...

Today industries are going through rapid and disruptive changes across the world. IT Companies that had been providing software & application services through traditional IT development model are increasingly turning to more innovative development practices to help them meet changing customer demands. Current ways of working result in repetitive manual tasks with avoidable waste of time and effort thereby causing lower C-Sat, low efficiency, less competitiveness and financial drainage. With services evolving faster each year and growing customer demands, mastering the...

Antoine Contal, Google

Google’s secrets for removing waste from the World Biography: Antoine’s lifelong mission is to delight customers and end users. He honed this skill through diverse experiences, ranging from startup software engineer to digital product manager. As a Lean Coach, he helped IT departments and IT vendors to empower their teams and create more value. As a Google Solutions Engineer, he explores and shares technological innovations for Google’s largest customers. Google's secrets for removing waste from the world by Antoine Contal from Institut Lean...

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...

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?...

Lean IT Leadership – the essential...

Leaders and Managers have specific roles to play in support of a Lean IT transformation. Unfortunately, many Lean IT initiatives are hindered by Leaders who delegate their role and/or Managers who unintentionally disable the effort. This scenario always ends with disappointing results at best, and an alienated, bitter IT staff (and their customers) at worst. The problem lies not in what Leaders and Managers wish to achieve in their organization, it lies in what they focus on and how they go about positioning their people for success. Hundreds of books have been written on...