Agile Forum -Lean Principles in Testing, IT and Life
LEAN manufacturing has surpassed traditional mass production techniques with higher quality, reduced costs and faster time to market. LEAN started in the automobile industry with Toyota spearheading the techniques and specific company behaviours required. LEAN has more recently shown similar positive results in other manufacturing organisations, retailers and service organisations and is now enjoying great interest in some IT-serviced companies as it improves software development and testing activities.
LEAN principles have commonalities with Agile approaches. Learning more about LEAN techniques, culture and practice can add further value to your Agile or Waterfall software development approaches.
Like many great truths LEAN principles can be used to advantage both at work and at home to help you reduce waste and create shorter cycle times, higher quality products and much less stress. To do all this successfully you will need the buy-in of everyone at work as LEAN will change everything given the effort.
Speaker Bio
Wayne Mallinson has moved through the profession of Mining Geology to Software Testing, which he has practised for the past 22 years and still is learning more each day. He is a qualified natural scientist and testing Practitioner and is now studying for his Executive MBA degree in a quest to learn how a little bit of management science can raise the bar in software quality and productivity.
Speaker experience
Wayne has spoken at Testing conferences and interest groups in the UK, USA, Australia and South Africa. In addition, he has had many thousand hours of experience delivering testing and quality-related training.