BestBrains - Leading Lean Software Development

18. marts 2010

Leading Lean Software Development

med Mary og Tom Poppendieck

Tilmelding

Dette kursus afholdes på engelsk!
Dette kursus udbydes i samarbejde med Iterate i Oslo

Introduction
Success comes from people. Results are not the point. Developing people so that they can achieve successful results is the point.

“Fine,” you say, “but I have software to deliver, budgets to stay within, schedules to meet.” Indeed you do. But here’s the thing – either your system is capable of delivering those results or it is not. Trying to force results beyond what your development system is capable of not going to get you where you need to be. You are not going to improve your system by stressing it to achieve aggressive targets. Systems don’t work that way. You may get a local or temporary optimization, but you will not get a system capable of delivering high quality software reliably, repeatedly on time.

So how do you get results? You start by making sure that work is structured so that it is a system – one that gives knowledge workers visibility into the needs and expectations of your customers. Then you focus on developing the technical capability of the system and of the people developing your products. You structure your delivery system so that workflows are steady and predictable. Finally, you develop workers who accept the challenge to continuously improve their system so that it delivers increasingly better customer outcomes. Nothing is going to get you very far if you do not grow and protect the people who understand customers, decide what tests to run, write the code, keep up the cadence, deploy the software, provide support, and constantly improve the system so it delivers more value to customers.

What does this mean in practice? That is what this workshop is all about. In two intensive days of discussion and exercises, leaders will come away with a new frame of reference for thinking about how world class organizations develop software-intensive systems.

You will learn:

How to look at your process from a systems point of view and identify waste.
What's wrong with software testing and what you have to do to fix it.
How to frame risk and rethink scheduling to permit confident promise-dating and reliable delivery.
How to increase the productivity of knowledge workers, according Peter Drucker - the man who invented the term.
Tools for solving problems that everyone in the organization can use.
What the Beyond Budgeting principles are and how they affect system development.
The leadership roles that support the lean framework.

Learn first hand from Lean thought-leaders Mary and Tom Poppendieck how to apply Lean Principles to your organization. Mary and Tom have pioneered the application of Lean Thinking to software development and documented their principles in three books:

Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit
Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash
Leading Lean Software Development: Results are Not the Point

Price: DKK 11.000 excl. VAT.
Time and place: March 18 and 19 2010, 9:00-17:00, Oslo.
Registration: phone 7026 2118 eller email.