Leveraging Lean for IT and research tran...
In 2012, the IT division of a U.S. national research and development laboratory with over 4,500 staff began their Lean IT journey. After working with Mike Orzen, a pioneer in Lean IT, the organization is learning to embrace small incremental change, trial and discovery, and value the answer to the question “what did we learn?” There is an metaphor that says, “the best way to eat an elephant is one bite at a time,” but our tendency is to bite off more than we can chew often leading to failed deployments, partially or improperly built solutions or... 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.