Susana Jurado Apruzzese, Telefonica

Lean elephants: Lean Product Development in a large organization Telefonica, is one of the largest telecommunications provider in the world with operations in Europe, North America and South America. More than 3 years ago Telefonica began to apply the Lean Startup methodology to innovation projects. Lean Startup has allowed us to speed up the innovation process and do more with less, with a clear focus on market and customers. Applying Lean Startup at a large corporation is complex, but the benefits are many.     Biography: Susana is Innovation Manager and...

Yves Caseau, AXA

Lean Startup as the innovation engine for the Digital Agency at AXA AXA’s Digital Agency is a recent offspring of AXA digital strategy, whose purpose is to deliver innovative services to both AXA customers and prospects, in 55 countries. To ensure that their mobile and web applications bring true statisfaction to their users, the Digital Agency follows the Lean Startup methods from Eric Ries, with numerous insights that may be found in “Running Lean” (Ash Maurya) or “The Lean Enterprise” (Trevor Owens & Obie Fernandez). The goal is to...

Jez Humble, DevOps Research and Assessme...

Implementing Continuous Delivery   Biography: Jez Humble is co-author of The DevOps Handbook, Lean Enterprise, and the Jolt Award winning Continuous Delivery. He has spent his career tinkering with code, infrastructure, and product development in companies of varying sizes across three continents. He is currently researching how to build high performing teams, and helping to create a cloud platform for government. He works at 18F, teaches at UC Berkeley, and is co-founder of DevOps Research and Assessment LLC. Follow Jez on...

Kent Beck

Extreme Programming, Twenty Years Later Extreme Programming introduced a contrary set of values, principles, and practices to the software engineering world. Twenty years later, some of the material is still state-of-the-art, some is passe’, and some would still be, if embraced, shocking and revolutionary. This talk reviewed what I got right, what I got wrong, and what I’m still working on. Extreme Programming, 20 years later by Kent Beck from Institut Lean France Biography Kent Beck has been a programmer coach at Facebook for four years. He is the author...

Malika Mir, Ipsen

Obeya as a management system for CIOs Malika Mir, CIO and Head of Digital for IPSEN Pharmaceutical, is using obeya to lead her department. She has setup obeya rooms in every one of her business units to manage project portfolios, and improve quality, delivery speed and customer satisfaction. She’s seeing a new organisation emerge with collaborating teams having a higher customer focus, simpler management processes, and improved work standards with IT suppliers. Malika has her own obeya she uses on a regular basis to coach her first-line managers in problem solving....