Days 2 and 3 follow a similar format. Presentations from world renowned Lean luminaries will be interspersed with chaired debate and breakout opportunities.
The conference programme is available to download as a pdf. Conference Programme
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09:00 |
Registration and coffee |
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09:30 |
Welcome and Introduction by James Yoxall, IndigoBlue |
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09:45 |
Keynote speech - Don Reinertsen Second Generation Lean Product Development: From Cargo Cult to Science First generation lean product development drew heavily on the ideas of lean manufacturing. Just eliminate waste and reduce variability. What could be simpler? Well, this simple advice is much less valuable than it appears. Should we operate the test area at 80 percent utilization with a 48 hour queue, or 90 percent utilization with a 96 hour queue? Both queues and underutilization are waste, but one rises when the other falls. We can't eliminate them both. What about variability? Variability is always bad in manufacturing, but this is not the case in product development. Eliminate all variability and we will eliminate all innovation -- and all value-added. Why can't we design a process that works in the presence of variability? In fact we can, and in doing so our most important design decisions require economic choices. To make these choices we need to go beyond the slogans; this is what second generation lean product development is about. It starts by recognizing the economic importance of queues. It selectively uses batch size reduction, WIP constraints, and cadence to reduce these queues. It frames decisions as economic tradeoffs instead of philosophical choices. In this presentation, Don Reinertsen will discuss the concepts behind second generation lean product development. He will show you some of the quantifiable economic trade-offs associated with queue management, batch size reduction, WIP constraints, cadence, and flow control. He will explain why the ideas of lean manufacturing, though perfect for the repetitive, predictable, low-variability work of manufacturing, are dangerously inadequate for product developers. |
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10:30 |
Q&A with Don facilitated by Kenji Hiranabe |
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10:45 |
Break |
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11:15 |
Keynote speech - Kenji Hiranabe - Learning Kaizen from Toyota Kenji will present examples of process improvement (Kaizen) in factories in Japan and demonstrate how the Toyota Production System (TPS) concepts constantly improves the way things are done to meet changing customer needs, involving workplace (Gemba) people. After presenting key TPS concepts Kenji will explore the findings by developing Mind Maps to demonstrate: - Why and How to reduce WIP. - Lean transition and its conflicts with middle management. - How top-down adoption of organizational change programme fails. - Empowering Gemba people, Educating people. - How to utilized mind maps to expand and exchange ideas. |
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12:00 |
Q& A with Kenji facilitated by Hal Macomber |
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12:15 |
Lunch |
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13:00 |
Keynote speech - Hal Macomber - Lessons from Target Value Design Lean thinking and behaviors have come late to the design side of the construction industry. Architects and engineers historically work independently of each other and the construction people who build what they design. The result is often design that is not constructible, delays throughout construction, designs that are unaffordable and rework throughout design and construction. Building on lean thinking and Toyota's new product development process Target Value Design was introduced to the design community. You will also see influences from the Agile software movement. Target-Value Design (TVD) turns the current design practice upside-down. - Rather than estimate based on a detailed design, design based on a detailed estimate. - Rather than evaluate the constructibility of a design, design for what is constructible. - Rather than design alone and then come together for group reviews and decisions, work together to define the issues and produce decisions then design to those decisions. - Rather than narrow choices to proceed with design, carry solution sets far into the design process. - Rather than work alone in separate rooms, work in pairs or a larger group face-to-face. TVD offers designers an opportunity to engage in the design conversation concurrently with those people who will procure services and execute the design. We will explore the 9 foundational TVD practices that lean designers embrace to produce coherent work product without the usual shortcomings of the historical practice. |
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13:45 |
Q& A with Hal facilitated by Marc Baker |
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14:00 |
Break |
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14:15 |
Keynote speech - Marc Baker - Lean Thinking: what is distinctive about it and where it is going? Where lean came from and how it has developed into a complete business system. The current frontiers of lean thinking and practice - where next? Insights from lean transformations for IT and software development |
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15:00 |
Q&A with Marc facilitated by Don Reinertsen |
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15:30 |
Break |
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15:30 |
Masterclass Four separate sessions by Tuesday's keynote speakers discussing issues raised by delegates during the day. |
Business case study (starting 16:00) Tom Turcan, Mike Dixon and James Alexander talk about the adoption of Kanban within IPC Ignite |
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17:00 |
Masterclass feedback |
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17:30 |
Day 2 Summary and closing remarks by James Yoxall |
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