Lean IT Enterprises - LITE

Course Overview:    

In today’s business climate,  “more-for-less” is becoming as important if not more important than being “agile”.  Yet applying Lean Thinking as a means to achieve efficiency and effectiveness within IT has been slower than any other industry.  But the momentum is building, especially within software engineering.  The post-Agilism era and third generation of IT engineering represents a continuation of the themes of waste reduction and fast delivery advanced through the Agile movement.  But Lean promises to deliver business results far greater than Agile.  It has the potential to address the unsolved problems that are so prevalent within the Scrum/XP failure modes.  And Lean as a foundation for IT service delivery enables the integration of Business Alignment, Resource Optimization, Service Management and Governance concerns into a holistic value-stream.  This course is intended to position the participant to make a difference related to Lean IT  Transformation. 

Learning Objectives:  

• Pragmatically understand Lean Thinking principles and practices

• Integrate Lean into the Modern Software Engineering practice landscape

• Apply Lean Principles and Practices to materially improve IT delivery

• Configure your IT Value-streams to eliminate waste

• Enact your IT Value-streams for enabling continuous improvement

• Jumpstart the implementation of Lean in your organization

Intended Audience:    

This course is designed for IT leaders looking for exponential improvements in their software and systems delivery value-streams

Upcoming Public Classes:    

April 19, 20 :: Santa Ana, California
May 10, 11 :: Ottawa, Canada
May 17, 18 :: Toronto, Canada

Registration:    

This 2-day course is offered at $1495.  Discounts available for early registration.

Course Outline:  

Overview and History of Lean

            Definition

History & Timeline

TPS

MIT International Motor Vehicle Industry Study

Application outside Manufacturing

Value-Stream / Value-chain

Simulation

 

Principles & Practices of Lean Thinking

Waste

JIT - Pull, Flow, Kanban

Heijunka, Jidoka

5-why, Visual Controls, Poka Yoke, 3P, 5S

Kaizen, Standard Work

TPDS

 

Modern Software Engineering Practices – “SDLC 3.0”

Post-Agilism & the Gartner Hype Cycle

Method soup

Agile Archeology

Practice=pattern

System of patterns

            Community Practice Synonyms 

  

Holistic IT Value Stream

Projects vs Products

Coarse-grained vs fine-grained demand fulfillment

Parallel development

Value-stream analysis & TOC

Integrating the various BOK’s

           

Lean Software Product Development

Real Options Theory – Datar-Matthews

Risk-value practice connection

Making “Commit at the Last Responsible Moment” Actionable

Decision-centric Software Architecture

Concurrent, Set-based Development

COTS Acquisition & Composite Systems

Product-Line Practices

 

Lean Software Product Delivery

Efficient Collaboration

Meaningful Division of Labor

Organization

Utilization & WIP Limits

Fine-grained Demand Management

Digital Kanban

Scenario-driven development

Pragmatic modeling

Adaptive Management

Metrics & Measurement

Build Quality In

 

Lean Service Transition

ITIL V3 Release Management

Process model for integration of Apps/Ops

Creating Service Management Flow

 

Lean Software Product Maintenance

            Economics of Sustainment Engineering

            Qualification for maintenance value-stream realization

            Sample Value-stream model

           

Lean Compliance

            Lean COBIT 

  SAS-70

  Pragmatic controls

 

Lean Business-IT Alignment

            Value-stream based Alignment

            TOGAF Integration with Lean Product Development

            Lean Viewpoint Framework     

 

Lean IT Investment Governance & Portfolio Management

            Pulled applied to the Investment Lifecycle

Distributed vs Centralized governance      

Toll-gates

Supply-chain management

           

Lean Process Enactment & Digital Kanban

Tool is not a four-letter word

Form follows function

The Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Connection

Process Enactment SOA Strategy - Best-of-Breed vs Best-of-Brand

Request-to-Release Process Enactment - Simulation

Demonstration

 

Lean Process Improvement

            PDCA & IDEAL

            A Lean Interpretation of CMMI

            Pull-oriented Capability Maturity