See Guy Beaver at Lean Product Development Summit
June 6-7, 2007 Chicago

See Guy Beaver at Lean Product Development Summit June 6-7, 2007 Chicago

Key Strategies for Successfully Adopting Lean/Agile Practices in a Process-centric Corporate Culture

He will present a session that will outline successful strategies for piloting and rolling out Lean/Agile software development to a process-centric IT organization. A focus on a metrics approach to satisfy Six Sigma governance and strategies for measuring business value will be discussed in detail.

Process-centric waterfall organizations typically present specific challenges to Lean/Agile pilot projects. This session will provide lessons learned from a successful Agile rollout within an IT organization structured by process area (e.g. Systems Analysts, Systems Testers, UI Designers, Enterprise Data Modelers, etc).

Topics covered will include:

• Why Six Sigma and DMAIC create special Lean/Agile challenges

• Critical-to-success for Lean/Agile pilot projects

• Managing perceptions

• Expecting (and dealing with) frustration

• Key metrics: Productivity & Discipline

• The Perfect Daily Status Report

• Transform process-driven discipline to test-driven productivity