The Art of Producing Software: Applying Lean Concepts to Transform Your Software Development Organization

About this Presentation

Waste is an insidious beast that drains the productivity of development teams and the organizations they work in. Many organizations are now realizing that by turning their gaze inward they can streamline their overall development processes, deliver higher quality products faster and save significant amounts of money.

This talk will look at how to use Lean and Toyota Production Systems manufacturing techniques to streamline how your team builds software.

Waste is an insidious beast that drains the productivity of development teams and the organizations they work in. Many organizations are now realizing that by turning their gaze inward they can streamline their overall development processes, deliver higher quality products faster and save significant amounts of money.

In this talk we will look at the “Lean” techniques first developed by companies like Toyota and how they can be applied to common software development practices. We will walk through such concepts as identifying the different types of waste you might encounter in a software development effort, using Value Stream Mapping (VSM) to help measure the impact of that waste and different techniques you can use to eliminate that waste.

You will see a real-world case study of how the Lean methodology helped one company realize a significant costs savings. By the time the talk is done you will be able to take the lessons learned and use them to build real-world, hard dollar business cases that you can show to your upper management.

Audience: This talk is geared towards new and existing technical leaders. This talk will include very little technology and non-leads might find this talk not directly useful to their day-to-day work.