Lean Roots to Grow, Wings to fly !
Channel: ConfEngine
Date: 2014-07-24

A lot has been said about Kanban and how these can be implemented in Software development, but the learning remains superficial till we go deep down to its roots to understand the core underlying practices and principles and why/how these practices evolved over a period of time. Infact the roots of most of the Agile methods can be traced back to Lean/Toyota Production Systems, a set of practices and techniques used by Toyota to build great set of cars with limited amount of resources. Even though building software is much different than building a car, there are many lessons and practices that can be learnt and applied nonetheless.

In this interactive and visual talk, we'll take a virtual trip to Japan and learn some of the best practices/concepts that originated at Toyota for building "world-class" cars and see how each of these can be applied to software development. Learning about the roots of Lean should help the attendees in sowing the seeds of Lean improvement in their organizations and would help in building better software and improving the efficiency of the software delivery lifecycle.

Speakers: Nitin Ramrakhyani, Digite Inc