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Through the Lean Looking Glass
Summary
Christophe Louvion tells the story of an online advertising company which had to give up using Scrum because it did not create enough business value although the development was delivering working software. They chose to use Kanban instead, applying Lean principles at all levels of the organization, resulting in true self organizing teams, accelerated rate of change, and better financial results.
Bio
Christophe Louvion started working on shopping search engines as VP of Engineering at Shopzilla, he was the CTO of Gorilla Nation, an online advertising company, and currently is the CTO of Citysearch. Louvion is a Certified Scrum Coach, and an active member of the Lean-Agile leadership community.
About the conference
Lean Software and Systems Conference 2010 — the place to learn about Lean, Pull Systems and Kanban. Understand how established industrial engineering theory can apply to software development process. The conference will assist organizations that depend on software – from start-ups to those that build complex, software intensive products, systems & services – with the application of Lean Thinking throughout the enterprise.
Community comments
Great speaker
by Robert Sullivan,
I wish more management thought like this
by James Watson,
Re: I wish more management thought like this
by chris louvion,
Know Why You Are Doing Things
by Olivier Gourment,
Great speaker
by Robert Sullivan,
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Very interesting talk, well presented. I liked the creative slides - not your typical set of Powerpoint bullet points. I'm gradually building an understanding of Kanban - thanks for posting the talk.
I wish more management thought like this
by James Watson,
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Paraphrasing some good points:
No sacred cows: Q: If you can't question how (all) things are done, how can you reach high maturity? A: You can't.
You can replace a problem with 'nothing'. 'Nothing' is way better than a problem.
Re: I wish more management thought like this
by chris louvion,
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Just stopping things that cause pain was my epiphany a few years back. Once you accept this paradigm, you will see it applying to many situations.
Know Why You Are Doing Things
by Olivier Gourment,
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Great talk! Interesting how InfoQ categorized it: "This article is part of a featured topic series on Scrum" :-) Highly ironic.