Trainers: Mary and Tom Poppendieck
Dates: 6-7 October (a two-day class)

Brief
About the Trainers
Agenda
Learning Outcomes
Rates
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As global competitiveness comes to the software development industry, the search is on for a better way to create first-class software rapidly, repeatedly, and reliably. Lean initiatives in manufacturing, logistics, and services have led to dramatic improvements in cost, quality and delivery time; can they do the same for software development? The short answer is “Absolutely!”

Of the many methods that have arisen to improve software development, Lean is emerging as one that is grounded in decades of work understanding how to make processes better. Lean thinking focuses on giving customers what they want, when and where the want it, without a wasted motion or wasted minute.

This intensive two day workshop aimed at senior developers and team leads, and will help you apply lean principles such as Rapid Response, Constant Learning, Built-in Quality, Local Responsibility and Global Optimization to software development.

Trainers
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 their books:

• Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit
• Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash
• Leading Lean Software Development: Results Are not the Point

Agenda
Systems Thinking

• See the Whole
• Put on Customer Glasses
• Value Stream Maps

Technical Excellence

• Correct by Construction
• Basic Disciplines

Reliable Delivery

• Managing Workflow
• Scheduling

Great People

• Meaningful Work
• Leadership Roles

Relentless Improvement

• Seeing Problems
• Solving Problems

The Journey

• Making Change Happen
• Aligning Mental Models

Learning outcomes:

• How to look at your process from a customer’s 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.
• The traits of people who work in the most effective system development organizations.
• The leadership roles that support the lean framework.
• Tools for solving problems that everyone in the organization can use.
• How to change when change is hard.

Read more on poppendieck.com

The rates for the class:

Includes:

• two days class attendance for one person
• meals

Does not include:

• main conference program (October/8-9)

If you’re a conference attendee

• your rate is $550;

If you’re not a conference attendee:

• your rate is $650;
• register for the conference and get the reduced rate for the class.

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