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Just in Time! Applying Lean Principles to Agile Practices
Date	Tuesday, August 12, 2008, 11am ET
Featured Speakers	Alan Shalloway, Founder and CEO of Net Objectives Corey Ladas, Principal Consultant, Modus Cooperandi Richard Durnall, Principal Consultant, ThoughtWorks Australia
Sponsor	ThoughtWorks
Details	Lean has many facets–the paradigm from which it springs, its principles, its practices, and more. These all lead to the concept of doing things at the right time in order to eliminate waste and to speed up delivering value. This is known as “Just in Time.” Much can be learned by contrasting Lean’s manufacturing approach to mass manufacturing. Mass manufacturing parallels a waterfall approach by doing each step (analysis, design, code, and test) separately, while Lean manufacturing parallels an agile approach of building a story at a time. By contrasting these two approaches, wastes in waterfall software development are made apparent. In fact, it is clear that in the area of software–a knowledge-based process–things are much worse and we must adopt Lean’s JIT to minimize waste. Attend this Web seminar and you will learn: How you must focus on eliminating delays between steps to eliminate waste in the process as well as to speed up delivery of business value That keeping people busy by working on multiple projects is counter-productive How to reduce batch sizes via sequencingow to prioritize features and testing based on business value The difference between Pull and Flow and waterfall methods exemplified in two real-life storyboards
Special Offer	All attendees will be entered to win a PowerPass! The winner will be notified via email after the completion of the event. Offer applies to US residents only. You must attend the Web Seminar to win.