Antoine Contal, Google

Google’s secrets for removing waste from the World Biography: Antoine’s lifelong mission is to delight customers and end users. He honed this skill through diverse experiences, ranging from startup software engineer to digital product manager. As a Lean Coach, he helped IT departments and IT vendors to empower their teams and create more value. As a Google Solutions Engineer, he explores and shares technological innovations for Google’s largest customers. Google's secrets for removing waste from the world by Antoine Contal from Institut Lean...

Jeff Gothelf, Lean UX

Requirements-driven product definition is a sure-fire way to get 100% of the wrong product launched. The assumptions that requirements are based on are usually not accurate enough to determine the exact solution those requirements dictate. Instead, teams should focus on creating a series of hypotheses that define potential solutions to their business problem and then work together to learn which of these hypotheses are keepers and which ideas to kill. Biography Jeff is a designer & agile practitioner. He is a leading voice on the topics of Agile UX & Lean UX...

Jeff Sutherland, Scrum Inc.

“Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time”! Jeff Sutherland experience as a fighter pilot flying over North Vietnam and a medical research scientist studying complex adaptive systems motivated him to invent a new way of teamwork for finishing projects early with higher value based on Takeuchi and Nonaka’s observation of lean product development at Honda, Toyota, and other lean companies. He teamed up with Ken Schwaber to formalize Scrum in 1995 and write the Agile Manifesto in 2001 with other thought leaders. Jeff describes how Scrum...

Mary Poppendieck

The two pillars of Lean – Just-in-Time and Jidoka – have been discussed for many years, and by now we have a pretty good idea of what Just-in-Time means in software development. With Continuous Delivery moving to the mainstream – even for enterprise and embedded software – rapid flow of value through the development process is becoming routine. However, as software systems get larger and more complex, we may lose sight of what Jidoka has to offer. At its heart, Jidoka means that everyone is aware at all times of the state and progress of each flow unit in the...

Mike Orzen, Mike Orzen & Associates...

Mike will run a pre-conference masterclass: “Building Your Lean IT Roadmap” on 13 March and present “Lean IT, DevOps & Agile – Learnings from Nationwide” Six years ago, Nationwide (an insurance and financial services company with US$26 billion in annual revenues) embarked on building industry leading software engineering capabilities. Their lean journey has enabled and engaged their 9,000+ person IT organization to deliver great solutions to customers and partners with ever-increasing levels of quality. In this session, we’ll explore the...

Carlos Condé, Amazon Web Services

Whether you are launching a new business idea, or expanding to new geo markets or releasing new software or service, it’s important to experiment often and fail quickly. In order to accelerate innovation in this highly competitive and uncertain market, you need to lower the cost of failure and increase the speed of innovation. In this session, will share some of the lessons learned at Amazon and from the customers using Amazon Web Services (AWS) on how you can leverage the powerful nature of on-demand cloud computing and data-driven decision making to evolve your...