Agile at Tesla - What I learned Working for Elon Musk (Joe Justice)
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Joe Justice will share his experiences from working agile at Tesla and will answer questions from the participants.
Joe Justice will share experiences and answer questions from particpants about his time at Tesla. Joe has a wealth of experience and he pioneered Agile in Hardware and is the author of the book Scrum Master - The Agile Training Seminar for Business Performance. During the user group event we will raffle of 5 copies of his book. To make this books even more unique, they have a special personal note and are signed by Joe. The books prizes were made possible by Incrementor.
As a warm-up to this evening, you might also enjoy the following Agile.FM podcast episode with Joe Justice about Tesla.
Joe Justice applied agile to automotive manufacturing in 2006, founding Team WIKISPEED, and set 4 world records. WIKISPEED became the first automotive manufacturer to accept Bitcoin in 2012, and was featured on the cover of Bitcoin Magazine issue #3. Joe Justice joined Tesla in 2020, where Joe operated Agile@Tesla from the company headquarters.
Joe Justice is a [TED.com speaker](https://youtu.be/x8jdx-lf2Dw), guest lecturer at both MIT and Oxford University in England, featured in Forbes 5 times to date including as owner of a "Company to watch" by Forbes Billionaire Club, cited in more than 8 business paperbacks and hardcovers, the subject of a Discovery Channel documentary for his work creating the disciplines Extreme Manufacturing, Scrum@Hardware, and The Justice Method. Joe Justice founded WIKISPEED and operated Agile@Tesla from Tesla's Fremont, California global headquarters.
Joe earns his living by consulting globally on agile hardware and company restructuring, bringing multinational companies increased return on capital. He has designed and built 14 race and road-legal cars himself, some designed and built in as short as 27 minutes. He has also built some small houses, and some robots. His method of cross-training CAD, CAM, CFD, FEA, procurement, Machine Shop, Composites Shop, Test, and user testing has earned global recognition as the WIKISPEED method. His teams have held 4 world records.
Joe has worked with all 3 of the largest military and defense contractors, autonomous and smart road technologies, ultra-lightweight structures, AI labs, guest lectured at UC Berkeley, MIT, on behalf of Carnegie Melon, CU Denver, The University of Washington, spoken at Google, Microsoft, Zynga, Lockheed Martin, HP Labs, The Royal Bank of Canada, Pictet bank, and others. Joe's work has been featured in Forbes, Harvard Business Review, CNN Money, the Discovery Channel, and others.
