Pierre Masai, Toyota Motor Europe

Hoshin Kanri literally means “Compass Management”. Its main purpose is to agree the direction at each level of the company in a way that leaves both latitude to operational units – IT included – to formulate their own plans, and to align them horizontally and vertically from the top company direction to the employees and back (“catchball process”). Pierre Masai will share insights and explain concretely how this process works at Toyota, including at the IT function he leads, but also the experiment he conducted to support the Hoshin process of any organization...

Sandrine Olivencia

Sandrine Olivencia is a lean IT coach specializing in improving the performance of IT organizations. She has coached dozens of teams (software and operations) in using the Obeya method to deliver high quality products in time and budget, in both co-located and distributed contexts. She also coaches managers and CIOs in using Obeya to manage their whole department, and develop collaboration and customer-focused teams. Sandrine has been teaching and practicing the obeya project management method for 6 years. She has been teaching obeya at Centrale Marseille, ESIEE and...

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.

Learning from the fast developing practi...

As Lean practice within IT grows and blends with complementary disciplines, including Agile, Scrum, ITIL, COBIT, Six Sigma, BPM, and others, we are learning new ways to solve big problems, and to create and leverage strategic opportunities. Steve Bell reflects on the current state of Lean IT, sharing examples from his practice as a Lean coach, researcher and author to show how enterprises—from global conglomerates to startups—are applying Lean IT principles and practices to drive innovation and operational excellence, and how you can apply these lessons learned and...

Breaking through the legacy of mass prod...

In the summit opening keynote session, Pr Daniel Jones presented: “Breaking through the legacy of mass production: is IT part of the problem or how could it really help to unlock the future?” Escaping the Legacy of Mass Production by Prof Daniel T Jones from Institut Lean France...

Lean or Agile: using kanban to build in ...

In lean, kanban is a kaizen tool to reach single-piece flow, and so build in quality through Jidoka. In other words, kanban is a learning tool. In agile, kanbans and burn-down charts are often used as execution tools to make the process more agile, but without any direct impact on quality. By rethinking the underlying principles of kaban and built-in quality we can shift the focus back on product quality in development projects. How to build-in quality into design, and why using kaban properly really matters. Built in Quality by Michael Ballé – Lean IT Summit...