Lean thinking Improving your Organisation’s Value Stream

Objectives Understand how lean works and be able to apply lean principles to your own organisation to improve quality and productivity and reduce time-to-martket and cost.

Target audience Product Managers, Product Owners, development/IT managers, Scrum Masters, project managers, service and production support managers, test managers, quality and proces managers.

Prerequisites The participants are required to have a working knowledge of Agile software development processes such as Scrum. Aditionally, you are requested to watch the video listed below prior to the class. Reading the book stated below will be greatful benificial.

Contents The course is interactive and participatory. It uses exercises and encourages discussion. The contents include: Introduction:

  • Lean Thinking and Agile Software Development
  • The Roots of Lean Thinking
  • Overview of Lean Thinking
  • Overview of Lean Software Development

Value Streams:

  • From customer needs to product delivery: The value stream
  • The value stream mapping technique
  • The current state value stream map

Eliminating Waste, Overburden and Variation:

  • Discovering and removing waste (Muda)
  • Avoiding and resolving overburden (Muri)
  • Removing unnecessary variation (Mura)

Lean Process Characteristics:

  • Push vs. pull
  • Kanban
  • One-piece flow and just-in-time
  • Takt time and cadence
  • Workload levelling (Heijunka)

The Future Value Stream:

  • Creating the future state value stream map
  • Developing the improvement plan

Empowerment and respect

  • Teamwork
  • See for yourself (Gentchi Genbutsu)
  • Quality first (Jidoka)
  • Continuous improvement (Kaizen)
  • Visual controls (Andon)
  • Standardisation
  • Reflexion (Hansei)

Take a look at Roman’s latest article on lean called “The three M’s”, (muda-muri-mura).

Price:  DKR 6.500 pr. person ex. vat.  Travel is not included.

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