John Carnell
Greater Wisconsin Software Symposium
Milwaukee · Feb 29 - Mar 2, 2008
Manager - Platform Engineering w/Thrivent Financial
John Carnell is the manager of Platform Engineering for Thrivent Financial, a Fortune 500 financial services company. In addition, John is a prolific speaker and writer. He has spoken at national conferences, such as Internet Expo, the Data Warehousing Institute, and numerous No Fluff Just Stuff Software Symposiums.
John has authored, coauthored, and been a technical reviewer for a number of technical books and industry publications. His latest book, Pro Apache Struts with Ajax, was published in late 2006.
Presentations
The Art of Producing Software: Applying Lean Concepts to Transform Your Software Development Organization
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.