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...

How can we really build delightful produ...

Prof.Daniel Jones, Michael Ballé, Takashi Tanaka, Régis Medina, Steve Bell, Mike Orzen, Hakan Forss, Laurent Bossavit and Antoine Contal. The lean founders and agile gurus will answer the question: How can we really build delightful products with lean and agile?...

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...

Gemba walks in IT project management:

A domain manager in the IT department of a large Italian bank, is learning to see waste in her IT operations, and realizing that the gemba reality is often different from what she ever imagined. Learning to see in IT is not easy. Knowing which questions to ask, where to look and what to explore deeper is a technique one acquires by practicing over and over. But you can only make better decisions after you’ve been there. ...