Philippe Blayo, France Billet

Philippe is a developer at ticketing service company France Billet. He has been gradually using Agile practices since 2001. He started his Lean journey in 2009, searching for a better way to do continuous improvement in software development. In 2010, along with Antoine Contal, he co-founded an A3 Lean-Agile community with support from the Agile Alliance. See the session about Agile and A3 Back to list of...

Emmanuel Chenu, Thalès

Emmanuel Chenu is an advocate and user of XP, Scrum and Lean Software Development for real-time embedded life-critical products. He is a software development coach at Thales Avionics in Valence, France. Emmanuel is passionate about his field and likes to share his experience with others: he is a frequent speaker at agile conferences and teaches pragmatic software development at the Higher Institute of Advanced Systems and Networks in Grenoble (ESISAR). See his workshop about “Flash Meetings for software champions” Back to list of...

Jean Cunningham, JC Consulting

Jean is widely recognized for her pioneering work in Lean Accounting and the Lean Back Office. She is principle of Jean Cunningham Consulting. Providing workshops, kaizen events, and strategic coaching, Jean helps companies fully integrate all their business functions with lean operations to minimize waste and maximize customer focus. Jean is the co-author of the acclaimed book, Real Numbers. She is also co-author of Easier, Simpler, Faster, a book on applying lean principles to information systems processes and optimizing output data within the lean workplace. Both books...

Christiane Fischer, SAP

Next to leading a global team within SAP Global IT Infrastructure Services, Christiane Fischer drives organizational design and change management. It is her mission to support other units optimizing business processes to be a powerful and flexible organization. She enables employees to contribute with their potential by providing methodologies and insight to support continuous transformation of E2E services to increase customer value. Christiane has been part of the lean leadership team in SAP Global IT Infrastructure Services for over three years, following the approach...

Vivek Goel, Tata Consultancy Services

Vivek Goel is a Service Delivery Manager at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). With over 13 years of experience, he leads a team of 100+ engineers to deliver production support services to more than 13,000 users across the globe. An engineer by qualification, Vivek is also ITIL V3 Service Operations Certified. Vivek distincts himself with his passion for improvement and has received recognition from clients as well as within TCS. See the session about Fat to Fit: Recipe for a Lean IT Service Back to list of...

Pierre Jannez, Operae Partners

Pierre Jannez is a Lean Coach at Operae Partners, which he joined in 2010. He has designed and implemented Lean projects at software engineering and telecommunications firms, including Nokia and Nokia Siemens Networks. He introduced the Agile/Lean approach during 2002, while directing software development projects at Nokia, and successfully managed the change management process. He subsequently perfected his Lean expertise by launching a pan-European continuous improvement program, and later providing extensive follow-up coaching to multiple projects. See the workshop...