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Richard Hensley is talking on “A Story about McKesson ADM Business Development“.
We proposed to create a software as a service endeavor as an experiment in software business done a new way at McKesson. We theorized that the principles behind current software methodologies, specifically SCRUM could be instilled into the whole business so that value could be delivered significantly faster and of better quality when compared to our corporate peers. We predicted that we could deliver a live revenue producing customer with the business in less than one year from the time of funding. We tested by executing our funded business plan. To our great relief, the theory was largely correct. The presentation will cover the steps and missteps taken along the way, and detail the results of our ongoing experiment, including our kanban implementation.
Richard Hensley is a 25 year veteran of the healthcare information technology industry. Richard has built systems to support the healthcare industry including retail and hospital pharmacies, prescription insurance claims, hospital based and ambulatory clinical laboratories, insurance utilization and authorization management, hospital patient accounting, and hospital clinical documentation. Richard’s role in these products has progressed along the software engineering career path. For the last 15 years, Richard has been in technical leadership roles on various products. Richard’s latest endeavor is to guide McKesson along the path of being a better software product development organization. Richard is the engineering director for the ADM business.
Richard is also involved with the McKesson office of the CTO. In that role, he is involved McKesson-wide activities including technical due diligence for merges and acquisitions, technology convergence initiatives, technology adoption initiatives, technology acquisition initiatives, and process adoption initiatives.
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Ryan Martens will talk about “PDCA: Beyond Simple Inspect and Adapt“.
Lean and Kanban focus on practices of continuous flow of product delivery. Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) is a Lean discipline that moves beyond inspect and adapt of Agile team-level processes. At a corporate level, PDCA provides guidance for strategy as well as problem-solving work. In 2009, I led Rally’s move to PDCA for the company’s strategy process at both the annual and quarterly levels. My primary guide was Pascal Dennis’s “Getting the Right Things Done”. In this experience report, I share Rally’s PDCA first year of adoption: where we started, how this impacted our corporate behaviors, and where we are now. I want to share Rally’s story to compel participants to embrace PDCA and get good at it. I ask each participant to come with its organization’s #1 goal and success criteria. I will close with a planning A3 exercise from Pascal’s book.
The CTO and founder of Rally Software, Ryan Martens began his career in software in 1985 while in college and has broad industry experiences with BEA Systems, US West/Qwest Communications, BDM, and three start-ups. As Rally’s CTO, he is a lean/agile consultant, blogger, portfolio manager, technical operations manager and senior sales resource. Ryan is known for his triple bottom-line thinking as well as his farm fresh eggs, and his love for skiing, fishing, and biking with his family in Colorado.
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Siddharta Govindaraj will speak on “A Startup Journey: Evolving from ad-hoc to Agile to Kanban“.
This experience report describes a period of 6 years in two startup companies that I was involved with.
The first part covers the period from 2004 to 2006 when I was working with a startup based out of Singapore. I explain how we moved from doing ad-hoc development to adopting Scrum. Adopting Scrum was a big improvement over our previous ad-hoc approach but Scrum also led us to make some classic mistakes (from a lean point of view).
The second part covers the period from 2007 to 2009 when I started my own company in India. The company was started with Scrum right from the beginning. I explain how we evolved from vanilla Scrum to Lean and Kanban.
My primary interest is in improving the way software is delivered. I take great interest in lean and agile software development methodologies. I am also interested in the social aspects of software development and how it relates to the technical aspects. I started a company, Silver Stripe Software Pvt Ltd, to work further in the area of software process.
I help conduct Lean and Agile software development events and seminars in Chennai, India through the Chennai Agile User Group. I am also a part of the Agile Software Community of India (ASCI) and help organise ASCI events in Chennai.
I’m also one of the organizers of Proto.in, a bi-annual event that showcases startup companies to an audience of venture capitalists, technologists and media, and the co-organizer of the Chennai OpenCoffee Club, a place where entrepreneurs from Chennai meet once a month.
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Kelley Horton will talk on “The Power of Visibility: Driving a Lean-Agile Transition with Visual Controls“.
A Charlotte based healthcare quality and cost improvement organization (Premier Inc. healthcare alliance, CITS Division) has made a large transition to Lean-Agile. One of the key drivers was gaining organizational buy-in to the power of minimizing WIP. The Program Management Office made the decision early on that queues of work must first be seen before they could be managed. This experience report provides examples of how visibility into organizational WIP allowed business stakeholders to create a portfolio view of continuously prioritized business initiatives. The dashboards and visual controls that managed this work ultimately helped the teams continuously decompose work into right-sized deliverable increments. This allowed predictable release planning by the business, and allowed the work to be pulled into focus by development teams for incremental delivery. What emerged was the ability to “see” flow through the value stream.
Kelley Horton is Director of the Corporate IT Program Management Office for the Premier Inc. healthcare alliance (www.premierinc.com). She has program management and process improvement expertise with over 15 years of experience in creating and leading Program/Project Management offices for product and application development organizations as well as implementing and improving Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) processes.
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John Goodsen will talk about “What’s Next for Electronic Kanban? Encouraging Innovation in Electronic Kanban Tools“.
In the last few years, the notion of Kanban for Software Development has become the latest rage in Agile evolution. During this time, I’ve been experimenting with collaborative web tools for distributed kanban teams, resulting in radtrack, an open source kanban web application. As I learned kanban and used radtrack as my coding dojo along the way, I’ve basically re-written it from scratch twice as I wrestled with how iterations might fit into a Kanban world. The end result is that I’ve come to accept that iterations in product development introduce significant waste, both in tool complexity and associated process complexity. This interactive presentation/workshop will take particpants through a very brief history of kanban tools and then request your involvement in an interactive brainstorming session on what the future of kanban tools might bring.
The focus of this interactive session will be more of a paper prototyping, workshop format, designed to elicit new visualizations from kanban visionaries on new ways to visualize and encourage lean team concepts across geographic boundaries with electronic kanban tools. Participants will be asked to break into focus groups and help brainstorm directions for the next generation of electronic kanban systems. I expect to write up the results of these brainstorming sessions as a joint activity with all workshop participants and publish the results as a mechanism to stimulate new electronic kanban tool innovations with both commercial and open source tool vendors alike.
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Scott Bellware will talk on “Lean Web Design – Living with Specialization in Rapid Startups“.
Web designers are highly-specialized professionals. We loose a lot of productivity due to the effects of this specialization, whether through rework, scrap work, relearning, or missed expectations. Rapid startups expect to be up and running within two months, from the start of development work to business launch. Web designers are critical members of web startup teams, and learning to deal with web design specialists is vital to a rapid startup’s ability to sustain its pace. This presentation talks about two web startups that applied lean thinking and pull and flow to this particular challenge, and the techniques and understanding that came from the experience.
Scott Bellware is a software product designer, builder, and manager living in Austin, TX. Scott works with web startups on rapid new product development as well as with IT shops to improve the quality of their products, processes, and performance. Scott is the founder of the Lean Software Austin group, and has founded and helped organize numerous professional groups and events regionally, nationally, and internationally. He speaks at software industry conferences and teaches Agile and Lean development in workshops in the US, Canada, and Europe. Scott has served as the chairman of the International .NET Association’s Speaker Committee and is a recipient of Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional award. Scott is an activist, an organizer, explorer, and teacher. Scott has been caught on several occasions replacing the periods of highly-secured assertions with question marks.
