Sari Torkkola, Patria

Three years ago I had a successful career behind me. I was CIO of a defence and aerospace company running the corporate IT. I had great people in my team but they were burning out due to constant fire fighting and internal customers who after several gigantic improvement projects, concluded the service level as “IT sucks”. I then had to admit the traditional way of managing did not produce results for anybody. I started to look for something totally different and ended up googling the word “Lean” in October 2011. At first, I asked the supervisors in my team to...

Fred Mathijssen, Nike

3 years ago, the focus on Lean revealed the need for more visual management and day-to-day insight into the status and progress of the project management group within Nike Technology. The journey Nike Europe’s Tech department went through since that moment into the now, where the Obeya visualizes how Nike Tech aligns to Nike’s strategy supported by programs, our portfolio, key metrics, and a structured review process with our GEO and Global business partners – has been challenging, encouraging, fun… The journey has just begun! Biography As Senior Director of...

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...

Unleash your team’s creativity usi...

How the Lean approach can enhance the creativity of your software development team? What is at stake for your company and your customers? How Lean Management can speed up this creativity process? During this session, the co-founder of BG2AA startup will present how the lean approach was implemented to design a multi-tenant Software As A Service (SAAS) business management platform built on cloud technologies. Through concrete examples, he explains how visual management, five whys, kaizen, A3 report, PDCA … are powerful quality catalysts....

Leveraging Lean for IT and research tran...

In 2012, the IT division of a U.S. national research and development laboratory with over 4,500 staff began their Lean IT journey. After working with Mike Orzen, a pioneer in Lean IT, the organization is learning to embrace small incremental change, trial and discovery, and value the answer to the question “what did we learn?” There is an metaphor that says, “the best way to eat an elephant is one bite at a time,” but our tendency is to bite off more than we can chew often leading to failed deployments, partially or improperly built solutions or...