The workshop will be done in English (même si Don parle assez bien français) just after FlowCon 2018 thursday 29th of november. The ticket are available here and you can contact us if you have any question.

Why this workshop ?

Many companies are enthusiastically adopting Agile and Lean methods in their product development processes. While some management fashions are temporary, Agile and Lean are likely to persist. Why? They provide a proven, practical way to simultaneously achieve large improvements in the speed, quality, and cost of product development.

But what makes these methods work? What should you pay to remove cycle time from the critical path of programs? How much do you have to lower transaction cost to enable smaller batches? What are the economic consequences of loading engineering to very high levels of utilization?

If you want to go beyond the slogans and understand the economics and science behind Agile and Lean, you may be interested in this workshop. It is taught by the author of the award-winning book, The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development. It will introduce you to both science and practical methods.

It draws upon ideas from a variety of domains including queueing theory, telecommunication network design, computer operating systems, and lean manufacturing. 

It is intended to provide a solid exposure to some of the many important ideas underlying Agile and Lean methods, including:

• Developing an Economic Framework: How to calculate Cost of Delay and quantify the financial impact of improvements in cycle time, cost, and quality.
• Managing Queues: How to control the invisible and unmanaged queues that hurt cycle time, efficiency, and quality.
• Exploiting Variability: How to reverse the economic damage done by variability and amplify the benefits of innovation.
• Reducing Batch Size: Using batch size reduction as tool to reduce queues and accelerate feedback.
• Applying WIP Constraints: How WIP constraints and other WIP control strategies improve cycle time, efficiency and quality.
• Controlling Flow: Using cadence and work sequencing approaches like Weighted-Shortest-Job-First (WSJF) to improve flow.
• Using Fast Feedback: How to design feedback and control systems that make a difference.
• Decentralizing Control: Balancing the advantages of centralized and decentralized control.