Seminar overview:

In this in-depth seminar, you will learn about strategies and principles that will help you reduce development schedules by up to 70%, while reducing costs and improving quality.  Using Lean strategies helps you avoid non-value-added work, improve innovation capacity, and deliver more value to your customers.

You will learn about:

·        Quickly diagnosing your execution challenges

o       Why as much as 95% of your development lead time may be non-value-added

o       Identifying, quantifying, and ranking your execution bottlenecks (waste)

o       Setting clear, quantifiable goals for products and processes

o       Focusing on customer value, avoiding features that add little or no value

o       Reducing delays and rework due to defects (often 50% of development effort)

o       Accelerated problem-solving with collaborative workspaces

o       Reducing schedule and risk with Set-Based Concurrent Engineering

o       Overcoming barriers between departments, groups, and teams

o       Removing non-value-added activities to reduce delivery time, effort, and cost

o       Eliminating sources of wait time (e.g. queues and capacity imbalances)

o       Just-in-time response to customer demand instead of slower, plan-driven work

o       Providing real-time insight into actual progress for teams and executives

·        Making changes stick, going beyond initial improvements

o       Establishing a continuous process of reflection, learning, and improvement

o       Overcoming leadership challenges that hamper organizational learning

o       Using Lean to take your existing Agile or CMMI efforts to the next level

o       Applying Lean strategies to outsourcing and distributed development 

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