1. Lean Product Development Principles & Techniques for Software Organizations
Steven Borg | Co-Founder & Strategist, Northwest Cadence
Andrew Clear | ALM Consultant, Northwest Cadence

2. Meet Andrew Clear | @aclear16
ALM Consultant, Northwest Cadence
Bias towards principles and management techniques
ALM Ranger
“It’s self-organization within a framework…”

3. Meet Steven Borg | ‏@stevenborg
Co-founder & Strategist, Northwest Cadence
Bias toward math and proofs
But understand the importance of culture
Microsoft ALM MVP since 2005
Love focusing on teamwork and the delivery of value

4. Course Topics Lean Product Development
01 | Introduction to Lean Product Development
06 | Feedback loops
02 | Economics over emotion
07 | Managing queues
03 | Value flow over resource utilization and timelines
08 | Batch sizes
04 | System over local optimization
09 | Kanban, next steps and conclusions
05 | Decentralized decision making over command and control

5. Setting Expectations Target Audience
Mid to senior level managers
Anyone interested in understanding Lean Product Development
Suggested Prerequisites/Supporting Material
Donald Reinertsen, Principles of Product Development Flow
Mary & Tom Poppendieck, Lean Software Development
David J Anderson, Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for your Technology Business

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7. 01 | Introduction to Lean Product Development
Steven Borg | Co-Founder & Strategist, Northwest Cadence
Andrew Clear | ALM Consultant, Northwest Cadence

8. Lean Product Development
Optimizing the flow of value through a system with inherent variation

9. Why you should care
The “project” paradigm doesn’t fit with modern continuous deployment
No concept of intellectual inventory, or that it costs us money
Focus on individual efficiency
Misunderstanding of variability
Management through proxies for value

10. Why you should care
Completely utilized, highly efficient IT shops that somehow never seem to produce what our customers need when they need it.

11. Where it comes from
Quite a few different schools of thought, using very similar vocabulary
Lean software development (Mary & Tom Poppendieck)
Lean product development (Donald Reinertsen)
Agile manifesto
PMBOK (agile or otherwise)
This course aligns most strongly with lean product development, but includes aspects of the others

12. Principles Methodologies Enterprise Agility Practices Scrum XP agile
SAFe
RUP
AgileUP
Scrum of Scrums
lean
Agile
ASD
DAD
Practices
TDD
WIP limits
User Stories
Batch sizes
CI\CD
Backlogs
Pair Programming

13. Today’s discussion structure
Principles
Economics over emotions
Value flow over resource utilization
System over local optimizations
Decentralized decision making over command and control
Practices
Feedback loops
WIP limits
Batch sizes
Managing queues

14. Culture flag
Don’t let culture and process change become a bootstrapping problem; understand both and let them work together.