Leadership Team Workshop

Your development teams are about to attend a Lean Development Workshop. If your leadership team does not understand and support what they learn, then those attending the workshop are likely to be frustrated. "We see the way forward - but we need permission and support to head that direction," they are likely to think. "If our managers do not understand how things need to change, then the workshop was a waste."

Lean thinking is often counter-intuitive, and it tends to encompass entire value streams, not just the development organization. So we recommend that complete cross-functional teams attend our Lean Development Workshop, and we like to follow up with the leadership team to summarize the workshop and discuss how they might support the development teams.

This workshop is usually scheduled for a half day or full day following a Lean Development Workshop.

You will Learn:

• What efficiency means in a development environment
• The biggest inefficiencies in your development process as identified by your teams
• What a rapid, predictable development process might look like in your world
• The best way to achieve a reliable, high quality code base
• How to be sure you are developing products and services that delight customers
• Practices and metrics for focusing cross-functional teams on creating value
• How to create a work environment that attracts the best engineers

Learn from the Experts:

Learn first-hand from thought-leaders Mary and Tom Poppendieck how to reframe your software development process from the perspective of lean principles. Mary and Tom have pioneered the application of Lean Thinking to software development and documented their principles in four books (below).

For additional information on the Leader's Workshop please contact us at info@poppendieck.com.