This one day masterclass will show you how to translate your business needs into robust, reliable software that delivers real, measurable value as quickly and as cheaply as possible.
Applying Lean thinking to software development enables you to create robust, reliable software that responds quickly to your businesses needs. It will help you be more innovative and possible create a competitive advantage. Lean in any context is all about doing just what the customer wants, when they want it, and no more. The on-demand customer-pull that underpins Lean thinking establishes a value-pull from conception to retirement that traditional software performance management methods cannot support.
7 October 2010 - London - click here for venue details
This is a one day masterclass for senior managers who need to grasp the potential opportunities that Lean software development presents. It will help you understand what Lean software development could mean for your organisation. This workshop will help you develop a management structure that fosters a Lean way of working that will benefit the whole organisation.
The workshop leader, Grant Rule will share insights into how to empower an expert engineering workforce to innovate and excel in delivering value to your organisation and your customers.
The workshop looks at:
- What does Lean mean in the context of software development?
- How and why leading software organizations are delivering more value, more quickly and reliably – examples from recent case studies
- Understanding the most common reasons why software development projects fail to deliver value
- How to focus on value, by gathering the right information, delivering solutions quickly, and making more accurate estimates about development timescales and costs
Who is it for?
This masterclass will benefit senior IT and Operations managers who need to reduce costs, improve outcomes or enable innovation.
What will you gain from attending?
By the end of the masterclass you will:
- Have a sound understanding of what Lean means in the context of software development; how it differs from what you are doing now, and how it might impact your IT function and the organization as a whole
- Be able to define what value means in your organisation
- Understand the power of measuring the right things
- Know how to gather the needs of internal customers and convert these needs into working software that delivers value quickly
- Have the knowledge to obtain better value from software suppliers
- Be able to identify the root causes of poor performance and understand how you can avoid it
- Be familiar with a range of techniques that can be used to estimate how much time and money will be required to deliver working software, and how that compares to the potential value the software will produce
The masterclass is led by P. Grant Rule
Grant partners businesses to deliver better value to their stakeholders by implementing lean, more agile practices. He is a recognised authority on software metrics and a Fellow of the RSA. He has contributed to the IEEE, and to numerous national and international professional bodies concerned with software development standards. He is a member of the Intellect Government Group.
With nearly 40 years experience in software development, measurement, performance management and continuous improvement, Grant is familiar with all the exemplars of success in software-intensive product and service delivery. He pioneered many of the principles adopted by such market-leaders. Grant worked with Ken Dymond to introduce the Software Engineering Institute’s ‘Capability Maturity Model’ (CMM, forerunner of the CMMI) into the UK. He used iterative delivery methods before the term “agile” was coined. He is a contributor to the Common Software Metrics Consortium, a world-wide group of software metrics experts formed to develop a new method of measuring software output. The method developed by this group - COSMIC - was adopted as an ISO standard in 2003, has been adopted as the national standard for Japan and Spain, and was awarded a finalists medal in the 2006 British Computer Society Professional Awards.
