Applied Knowledge Exchange
Virtual Tour of a Lean-Agile Team
- Date: Wednesday 16 June 2010
- Time: 19:00 - 21:00
- Location: Glasgow Caledonian University, Govan Mbeki Building, Room A005
- For: Development team members from softwear engineering, hardwear engineering, test, QA, business analysts, project managers
The School of Engineering and Computing presents:
"Virtual Tour of a Lean-Agile Team" - A seminar by Nancy Van Schooenderwoert
- Cost: Free
- Date: Wednesday 16th June 2010
- Time: 7pm
- Location: Room A005, Ground Floor Govan Mbeki Building (enter via George Moore Building)
Abstract:
Using examples from a real team building a safety-critical embedded product, this presentation introduces the concept of Lean Thinking for development, as distinct from manufacturing.
Lean development addresses whole products – hardware and software; all the engineering disciplines. But the real key is the way lean principles unite the business and technical sides of the organization. Lean development opens up better ways to engage with your customers, and for that reason it is not something to be ring-fenced to just the technical departments. In fact the companies where senior managers led the lean-agile program achieved significantly better results than those where it was limited to the IT group.
All welcome!
For catering purposes please respond to this email Helen.Larmour@gcu.ac.uk if you wish to attend.