Philip Rademakers, Toyota Motor Europe

Philip Rademakers, Toyota Motor Europe

How “Toyota Way” principles guided the architecture of Toyota’s product datahub and its REST API Enterprise application integration is a headache for many IT organizations especially when different legacy applications are involved. The presentation will illustrate how several “Toyota Way” principles are applied within the Enterprise Architecture department of Toyota Motor Europe to guide the design of integration solutions. These will be practically illustrated using Toyota’s product datahub as an example case. The presentation will...
Frédéric Charles, Suez Environnement

Frédéric Charles, Suez Environnement

Transform a classic IT department into a Lean delivery machine for digital services At SUEZ Environnement we took the opportunity of a new strategic project, to radically transform the way we conceive, build and deliver internet applications. We changed the way we build internet platforms using the Cloud. Agile methodologies and Lean management were a big help. We learned that architecture is key for performance but also for organising the work. We came to the realization that traditional applications specifications are no longer needed in 2015. We learned ways to manage...
Arnaud Cailleau, SopraSteria

Arnaud Cailleau, SopraSteria

The benefits of Lean IT in Software Testing At a time when our customers expected lower prices and more flexibility, we had to find new levers of productivity because the “classic” methods (recast process, audit, etc.) did not allow us to improve as fast as our customers expected. In that context, Lean IT opened new perspectives: thanks to that approach, we achieved outstanding business results such as a drastic reduction of defects and a strong increase of productivity. Unexpectedly, the Lean IT approach also resulted in a greater commitment of the test...
Nicolas Tricot, BlaBlaCar

Nicolas Tricot, BlaBlaCar

Growing the Tech team at ridesharing startup Blablacar This is the story of Christian and Nicolas, two Tech Managers at BlaBlaTech, who shaped the engineering team of the highly successful ridesharing startup. The team has grown from one single French five-person team to a dozen distributed and fully agile teams with 30+ people in only two years. Their main responsibility? Building and scaling the development team by constantly improving engineering processes, integrating and training new talents, and anticipating tomorrow’s organization. Their challenges? Delivering the...
Christian Jennewein, BlaBlaCar

Christian Jennewein, BlaBlaCar

Growing the Tech team at ridesharing startup Blablacar This is the story of Christian and Nicolas, two Tech Managers at BlaBlaTech, who shaped the engineering team of the highly successful ridesharing startup. The team has grown from one single French five-person team to a dozen distributed and fully agile teams with 30+ people in only two years. Their main responsibility? Building and scaling the development team by constantly improving engineering processes, integrating and training new talents, and anticipating tomorrow’s organization. Their challenges? Delivering the...
Laurent Bossavit

Laurent Bossavit

Sometimes it feels like a fact of life, like death and taxes, that software developers are ever cursed to write code full of bugs, then take them out one by one, with the patient assistance of testers (also known as “quality assurance”). At times we could believe that programming is special, that the Lean ideal of “right first time” cannot apply there, and developers and testers are doomed to the current uneasy (and sometimes adversarial) relationship. Here is a real story, not a fairy tale, to shine a hopeful light for those walking the Lean path...