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Join us for this exciting and important event. Our panel of experts will present real world examples that illustrate how ‘Lean Production’ concepts are being successfully applied to software development. In particular to applications that have to meet the highest levels of safety and security.
Software engineers, developers and project managers will learn how Lean development practices are improving productivity and reducing costs even in the most demanding of development scenarios..
Provisional agenda – March 26, 2009
- 10.00 Lean, Agile, and the Human Condition – Jim Sutton
- 10.45 Avionics, Agility, and Lean – Emmanuel Chenu
- 11.30 Open DO: Towards a Lean Approach for Certification – Cyrille Comar
- 14.00 Lean Thinking Inside and Outside a Software Engineering Company – David Jackson
- 14.45 Creating and Maintaining Scrum Documentation Effectively – Alexandre Boutin
- 15.30 Lean principles in Open Source, and the road ahead – Roberto di Cosmo
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A period for questions and answers will be left at the end of the morning and afternoon sessions.
Date and Time
The event will take place at the Maison de la Chimie, 28, rue Saint-Dominique – 75007 Paris. Registration will start at 09:30.
To register for the event, please contact us at: events@adacore.com
Speaker Bios
Jim Sutton
Author of Lean Software Strategies (Lockheed Martin)
James M. Sutton applies systems-engineering and Lean methods, with a business sensibility, to software systems development. This has consistently improved productivity and quality by several hundred percent on projects ranging from a few million U.S. dollars to over a billion. In 2007 his book explaining this approach, “Lean Software Strategies,” won the Shingo Prize, which Business Week Magazine calls “the Nobel Prize of Manufacturing.” Ada played an important role in this work. James is a co-founder of the Lean-Agile Alliance (2009), Principal Systems Engineer at Lockheed-Martin Aeronautics Company, and holds the international CSEP (Certified Professional Systems Engineer) certification with the INCOSE (International Council On Systems Engineering) organization, with other certifications in Lean, QFD, TRIZ, and negotiation. He has spoken and published for numerous conferences.
Alexandre Boutin
Yahoo
Alexandre graduated from ENSIMAG (French University in Grenoble) in 1989 and has 20 years experience in software industry where he has had various roles from Developer to Director (Managing 140 people) in several companies. He started working on software methodologies 10 years ago by managing ISO9001 and CMMi accreditations for a French software agency.
Alexandre joined Yahoo in 2004 to define and implement a software development strategy for Yahoo International Engineering teams in several regions (Europe, Asia, India, Latam). The strategy, initially based on a waterfall model, became more agile in 2006 and is now based on a process framework independent from any method. Alexandre currently focuses on Agile Scrum promotion and Lean coaching for Yahoo International Engineering.
Alexandre speaks regularly at International Agile conferences and is also the president of a local not-for-profit French association for Agile promotion (CARA – www.clubagile.org) and has co-organized the 1st Grenoble Agile event in October 2008 (200 participants – 15 sessions).
Emmanuel Chenu
Thales
Emmanuel Chenu is a user and advocate of eXtreme-Programming and ScrumMaster, and is a software development coach at Thales Avionics in Valence, France. He is passionate about his field, and likes to share his experience with others. He has had articles published in the monthly magazine ProGrammez, has presented at conferences such as XP-Days Paris and Agile Tour Grenoble, and co-organised the Agile Tour Valence conference. In addition, Emmanuel teaches pragmatic software engineering at the Higher Institute of Advanced Systems and Networks in Grenoble (ESISAR) and is director of the Club Agile Rhône-Alpes. Last but not least, he regularly posts entries on his blog dedicated to software development, at http://emmanuelchenu.blogspot.com/.
David Jackson
Praxis High-Integrity Systems
Dr David Jackson is the Technical Delivery Manager at Praxis. His responsibilities include promoting process improvement and the adoption of Lean principles across all of Praxis’ engineering disciplines. David has twenty years of experience in system engineering, technical consultancy and project management, specialising in high-integrity software-intensive systems. His clients have included government agencies, system integrators, and technology suppliers ranging from small start-ups to multi-nationals. He has worked in the USA and Europe, in sectors including aerospace, rail, and telecommunications. He is a Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and a Chartered Engineer.
Cyrille Comar
AdaCore
Cyrille Comar is co-founder and Managing Director of AdaCore Europe. He has been involved with Ada for well over a decade. Having received his PhD degree in Computer Sciences in 1986, Dr. Comar joined the GNAT project at New York University in 1993. One of the key architects of GNAT, Cyrille has notably led the implementation of the Ada 95 object-oriented features and the GNAT library model. He was also a key architect of the Ada 95 gcc frontend. Cyrille has published many papers on the Ada language and GNAT technology.