Autor: Lavoisier Farias | Publicado: 2012-11-25T19:11:00-02:00


Samuel Crescêncio - Pirâmide Lean&nbsp;


Autor: Samuel Crescêncio 
Local: Anfiteatro 1 do Pólis
Data: 30 de Novembro de 2012
Horário: 12h30 às 14h

Obs.: Esta palestra será em português.




The Lean Pyramid presents a model to help companies start their agile adoption strategy effectively. Reliably delivering valuable working software frequently is much more than just creating, estimating and prioritizing a backlog and developing it iteratively. In order to succeed with agile you have to understand the needed equilibrium of forces among strategy, management and engineering efforts. Through a deep explanation of the fundamental Lean principles, you will learn how they translate to agile software development in order to create a strong and successful culture in your company.




 Process/Mechanics



Many companies and teams struggle to succeed with agile. A good number of them take advantage of the facilities provided by the framework Scrum to start their agile adoption strategy, which is in fact a good way. Unfortunately, still companies fail adopting agile because they relegate the importance of the agile engineering practices to a second plan. Even those that understand the need for agility in engineering are failing due to a lack of synergy among software development, project management and business strategy.





This session will provide for agile practitioners or those who are just starting with agile a clear understanding of a set of Lean tools and principles that will help to structure a culture to adopt agile effectively. The model of the Lean Pyramid was created to help explaining all the concerns that are involved in a successful agile adoption.




The Lean Pyramid shows on its top the the cultural aspects and principles that are needed to create a human centered company - which creates space for a continuous learning environment. These aspects align the business strategy with people, processes and tools in order to foment a high-performance organization. In the middle of the Pyramid you will find how the lean principles can be effectively applied to portfolio/product/project management in order to accomplish the business goals with assertiveness and less risk.


On its bottom, the Lean Pyramid will provide an essential foundation of agile engineering practices that will allow you to safely respond to business changes while keeping a low cost and a high quality product development strategy.

The concept behind the Lean Pyramid helps to create a productive organization, keeping people motivated and innovative. We will start this lecture asking the attendees what are the difficulties that they are most facing to adopt agile. This will be a very interactive session and at the and we will have provided valuable answers or guidance to help in their agile journey.

Right after that we will start with a quick explanation of the idea behind the Lean Pyramid. Each level of the pyramid will be followed with a deep dive in the Lean Principles and how they can be applied for software development.

We will explore concepts such as Jidoka, Just in Time, Stop the Line Culture, Poka-Yoka, Kanban, Heijunka, Kaizen and others. Along with these concepts we will learn how to eliminate waste and maximize the generation of value, implementing the lean concepts through the use of Scrum, Kanban, Agile Business Analysis, Visual Management and XP practices. A visual prezi (zooming tool) presentation will be used to present this session

Learning Outcomes

The attendees will learn about the history of Toyota, how they have became the greater and most profitable automaker, through the evolution of the Jidoka concept (Inteligent Automation), Stop The Line culture and Poka-Yoke (mistake proof mechanisms). They will learn how to level the workload with Heijunka and Kanban and how to create a continuous improvement environment with Kaizen and the improvement Kata.
They will learn how to apply these concepts to software development through the spine of agile - Stories, Scrum and XP practices. There will be presented both technical and humanitarian practices - such as automated software testing, emergent design, refactoring, continuous integration, as well as pair programming, collective code ownership and other practices. With this, they will learn how to decrease the lead time, increase quality and keep a low cost for development and maintenance of software products.
Leadership and organizational aspects will also be understood. It will be provided a clear view of how Toyota conducts product development as if it was a Maestro conducting an orchestra - through the role of Chief Engineer, providing highly valuable deliverables with the lowest possible cost and within the shortest possible period of time. Attendees will be able to compare this approach with the Product Owner approach, from the Scrum perspective. Moreover, attendees will understand how these different approaches might get different results with regards to the sense of ownership, commitment and collaboration. Consequently, they will learn how to extract the best of both in order to build trustful relationships and high-performance teams.
At the end of the session, the attendees will be able to understand how to embrace the whole organization with a new mind-set, from the top management to operations, development and production stages - in order to succeed with agile






Samuel Crescêncio, Fundador e CEO da OnCast Technologies, é um engenheiro de software com larga experiência no desenvolvimento de sistemas de missão crítica. Com grande experiência em desenvolvimento ágil distribuído, Crescêncio considera-se um apaixonado por melhoria de processos.


Reconhecido como líder na comunidade ágil global, Samuel palestra com freqüência em conferências nacionais e internacionais e foi presidente do Ágiles2009 - a segunda edição da Conferência Latino Americana de Desenvolvimento Ágil. Atualmente, Crescêncio é membro do comitê de exploração do Agile Brazil e tem um assento no Board of Directors da Agile Alliance. Com seus 18 anos de experiência na indústria de software, Samuel é criador do modelo Pirâmide Lean e atua também como coach auxiliando organizações de todos os portes na adoção de métodos ágeis



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