Lean Software Development via Scrum

Lean principles have been proven successful in manufacturing for decades through companies like Toyota and Dell and are quickly being incorporated into the software development industry. Reducing waste, focusing on the producers, amplifying learning, and whole system optimization are just some of the areas we will be exploring in this session.

This session will expose you to the 7 principles of Lean Software Development and how the Scrum Framework can be used as a tool to drive a lean organization. It incorporates a very powerful hands-on experience to drive home the concepts of waste identification, value flow and whole system optimization.

This session is appropriate for any software development role or technology. It will help expose some of the hidden inefficiencies in your organization and what you can do to address them.

About Pete Behrens

Pete Behrens is the Founder and President of Trail Ridge Consulting, a firm specializing in enterprise-wide agile transitions and adoption. Their Organizational Agility Services align proven agile organizational patterns with enterprise-enabled agile practices to transform organizational ability to organizational agility.

Pete Behrens is a Certified Scrum Trainer and a Certified Scrum Coach. He has been guiding enterprise agile implementations for the past 8 years. Pete has over 178 years experience leading product development and architecture in adaptive, iterative and phased-based development methods for EDS and Rational Software. He led development of RequisitePro, the leading requirements management solution in the IBM Rational product line. He has extensive experience developing under the Rational Unified Process (RUP), Rapid Application Development (RAD), as well as traditional waterfall approaches. You can contact him at pete@trailridgeconsulting.com

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