Jael Schuyer, ING Bank

Jael is a Lean IT Master Black Belt (Senior Lean Coach) and Agile coach working for ING Bank in the Netherlands. At the moment Jael is working with David Bogaerts (co-presenter) on the Lean Agile enterprise transition in IT Domestic Banking of ING. Jael has worked as a Lean Coach since September 2005 and executed many Lean waves in ‘banking office’ and IT development. Before working as a Lean Coach, Jael was a Team Manager for ING. During this period she was introduced to Lean Management and experienced Lean from ‘the other side’. See the session about Combining...

Alan Shalloway, NetObjectives

With over 40 years of experience, Alan is an industry thought leader in Lean, Kanban, product portfolio management, Scrum and agile design- having written four books on these topics. He helps companies transition to Lean and Agile methods enterprise-wide. See the session about Managing Product Development Flow Across an IT Organization Back to list of...

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...

Khuloud Odeh, Urban Institute

The power of Lean to modernize mission-driven organizations What can Lean teach us about the improvement of non-profit business processes? In 2014, The Urban Institute, the Social & Economic Policy Research Center based in Washington DC in the US, turned to Lean to help modernize organizational processes from the inside out, beginning with their grant and contract proposal development process. Responding to requests for proposals is the primary method for Urban to obtain new projects and funding, and it was identified by 68% of surveyed staff as being challenging,...

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...