David Bogaerts, ING Bank
The ING Bank case study: In 2010 we started working Agile in our Internet Banking department (28 teams & 220 employees) and created nice results. It felt however as if we kept banging our heads against big issues all the time. Introducing technical improvements only helped to solve part of our issues, however we never seemed to get away from trouble shooting. Slowly we started to realize that if we wanted to make real progress, we had to deal with the real root cause: us as a management team. Organize ourselves as management and have the discipline of not disturbing...
Mike Orzen, Mike Orzen & Associates...
Mike will run a pre-conference masterclass: “Building Your Lean IT Roadmap” on 13 March and present “Lean IT, DevOps & Agile – Learnings from Nationwide” Six years ago, Nationwide (an insurance and financial services company with US$26 billion in annual revenues) embarked on building industry leading software engineering capabilities. Their lean journey has enabled and engaged their 9,000+ person IT organization to deliver great solutions to customers and partners with ever-increasing levels of quality. In this session, we’ll explore the...
Régis Medina, Institut Lean France
Régis is the main Lean IT expert in Europe. As a Lean coach specializing in IT projects, and a Partner at Operae Partners, he has been coaching teams for the past 6 years, helping them deliver their projects on time, with the expected quality and constantly focusing on the users’needs. Based on his coaching experience, he co-authored the first book in French about the practice of Lean management in IT: “La pratique du lean management dans l’IT”. Precursor of Agile software development in France, he has co-authored the first book about Agile in...