Jon Terry - Scrumagilean - Lean Principles for Continuous Improvement
Details
Agenda
6:15pm - Arrival
6:45pm - Jon Terry - Scrumagilean - an introduction to Lean Principles for Continuous Improvement + Time for questions
7:45/8 - Pizza & Networking
8:30 - Close
Summary
We all know that Agile is sweeping the project management world. Or is it Lean? Lean Agile? Scrum? Kanban? DevOps? There are a lot of buzzwords flying around. Some say they all aim to turn businesses into impersonal software factories obsessed with eliminating waste. Is that true?
In a word, no! Lean is really about continuous improvement and respect for people. Far from being mechanistic, it’s a much more humane way to work.
Jon Terry will discuss how lean and agile ideas really relate to each other. How lean principles help explain why agile practices work. And how those principles help organisations develop the operational maturity to allow agile to succeed beyond the team level.
Bio
Jon Terry is Chief Evangelist, Lean-Agile Strategy for Planview, a market leading provider of portfolio management, agile management, collaboration, and ideation software. Before that Jon was co-CEO and co-founder of LeanKit, which pioneered the application of Kanban in knowledge work. Prior to that, Jon held a number of senior IT positions with hospital-giant HCA and its logistics subsidiary, HealthTrust Purchasing Group. He was among those responsible for launching HCA’s adoption of Lean-Agile methods.
Jon earned his Global Executive MBA from Georgetown University and ESADE Business School in Barcelona, Spain, and his Masters Certificate in Project Management from George Washington University. He is a Project Management Professional, a Certified Scrum Master, a Kanban Coaching Professional, is certified in the Lean Construction Institute’s Last Planner Method, and is a SAFe Program Consultant (SPC).