Mary Poppendieck wrote the award-winning book Lean Software Development to explain how the lean principles from manufacturing could be applied to software development.
Don Reinertsen is recognised internationally for his contribution to the management of product development.
David J Anderson's first book, Agile Management for Software Engineering – Applying the Theory of Constraints for Business Results, introduced many ideas from Lean into software engineering.
John Seddon is not using a presentation at the conference but he has kindly supplied a paper that is similar to the content presented.
Jeff Patton has specialized in the application of user experience design practice to improve Agile requirements, planning, and products. Some of his recent writing on the subject can be found at Agile Product Design.
Marc Baker has recently been working with companies as an independent Lean coach and Six Sigma Master black belt. His experiences span many types of industries, including, pharmaceuticals, grocery services and medical devices.
Kenji Hiranabe is an Agile software development practitioner and consultant in Japan. He thinks of software development as a form of copperative communication game.
Alan Shalloway Alan Shalloway is the founder and CEO of Net Objectives. Alan has 40 years IT experience and is a thought leader helping enterprises transition to Lean and Agile methods as well teaching Lean, Scrum, Design Patterns, and Object-Orientation.
Hal Macomber is a partner with Greg Howell in the consulting company Lean Project Consulting, Inc. He also operates a coaching practice as G2G Assocs., LLC, and is having some fun with Michael Port as one of The Project Guys
Karl Scotland presents Five Steps to Kanban. This talk will introduce 5 steps that a team can use to create their own Agile process using a Kanban System for Software Development.
Due to the large size of this presentation (54mb) we request that you contact Karl directly on karl.scotland@emc.com for a copy.
Phil Badley will outline the Stockport Council's approach to transformation and the impact that a systems thinking approach is having upon business improvement and efficiency using practical examples from the journey so far.
IPC Ignite exclusively use Kanban as their development process of choice. Their business case study explores how it affects the different levels or their organisation.