This interactive 1-day workshop on Lean software development introduced Lean concepts you will need to know to improve your company beyond software development.

Whereas Agile is focused on gathering requirements and transforming them into shippable software, lean thinking addresses the entire value stream, from identifying customer needs to satisfying them. This includes innovation and portfolio management, project approval processes, deployment, production support, sales and service.

This course enables you to take a holistic view at your organisation's processes. You will learn how to improve quality and productivity and reduce time-to-market and cost. You will leave the course with concrete improvement steps for your own organisation.

• Identify and satisfy customer needs
• Improve quality and productivity of software development
• Reduce time-to-market and cost of software development
• Create the future state value stream map
• Develop the improvement plan
• Apply lean concepts and practices to improve your company beyond software development

Introduction

• Lean Thinking and Agile Software Development
• The Roots of Lean Thinking
• Overview of Lean Thinking
• Overview of Lean Software Development

Value Streams

• From customer needs to product delivery: The value stream
• The value stream mapping technique
• The current state value stream map

Eliminating Waste, Overburden and Variation

• Discovering and removing waste (Muda)
• Avoiding and resolving overburden (muri)
• Removing unnecessary variation(mura)

Lean Processes Characteristics

• Push vs. Pull
• Kanban
• One-piece flow and just-in-time
• Takt time and Cadance
• Workload levelling(muri)

The Future Value Stream

• Creating the future state value stream map
• Developing the improvement plan

Lean Management Principles

• Emprovement and respect
• Teamwork
• See for yourself (Gentchi Genbutsu)
• Quality First (Jidoka)
• Continuous Improvement (Kaizen)
• Visual controls (Andon)
• Standardisation
• Reflexion (Hansei)