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Keynote: Lean Development (Limerick, Ireland, 23. Jun. 2010)Lean Development - Potentials, Principles and Practices
Speaker: Christof Ebert, Managing Director, Vector Consulting Services
Venue: PROFES conference, Limerick, Ireland
Date: 23. Jun. 2010
To survive in a fast changing environment, we need to continuously improve productivity, reduce rework, and optimize product strategies. Lean development and lean management offers the right ingredients: Eliminating waste, empowering teams, delivering as fast as possible, seeing the whole. But there is a dark side, as recent industry experiences show. Too lean is mean. Lean often fails due to lack of vision, misalignment and insufficient execution. It is thus crucial for companies to successfully manage change towards lean development. This keynote will introduce to lean principles and practices. It will draw upon experiences from a variety of industries with topics such as lean transition, introducing new tools, improving engineering processes, and setting up a global software organization. A change check is provided so that participantscan address their specific challenges. Read more on the conference and keynote...
Dr. Christof Ebert is managing director and partner at Vector Consulting Services. A trusted advisor for companies around the world he has helped numerous companies to optimize technical product development and to manage organizational changes. Prior to that, he held engineering and management positions for fifteen years in telecommunication, IT and transportation. An internationally renowned keynote speaker, SEI certified CMMI Instructor and steering chair of the IEEE conference series on Global Software Engineering, he authored several books including his most recent book "Global Software Engineering" published by Wiley/IEEE in 2010. Contact him at christof.ebert@vector.com
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