Lean IT Summit: Day 1

Monday, September 10th
7:00 a.m. - 8:00 a.m.	Networking Breakfast
8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.	Mike Rother, Author Toyota Kata
		Create the Future! Mike Rother is one of the world's foremost lean thinkers as he investigates issues of management, leadership, improvement, adaptiveness and change. The findings explained in the book Toyota Kata will change how you think about management, innovation and lean. Toyota Kata is about what to practice in order to develop habits of continuous improvement and adaptiveness in any organization. The skill is teachable - Toyota Kata shows you how...
9:30 a.m. - 9:40 a.m.	Break
9:40 a.m. - 10:40 a.m.	Charles Betz, EMA   Applying Lean Thinking to the Enterprise IT Value Stream Applying Lean to IT management requires some creativity and thought. IT provides services, not goods, and has  a well established set of practices deriving from decades of building and running large systems. Some attempts to bring an industrial perspective to IT management have not worked well, such as the concept of a software factory. In this session, Charles Betz will define IT value and develop a workable mapping of IT practices onto Lean, starting with the transactional and experiential “moment of truth” sought by the IT service customer...
10:40 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.	Break
10:50 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.	Troy DuMoulin, Pink Elephant   As a trusted service provider IT is expected to receive business demand and efficiently translate that demand into outcomes their customer's want. However, for most IT shops there is nothing remotely efficient about this critical task, in fact quite the contrary...
11:50 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.	Networking Lunch
1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.	Jez Humble: Author Continuous Delivery Continuous Delivery Businesses rely on getting valuable new software into the hands of users as fast as possible, while making sure that they keep their production environments stable. Continuous Delivery is a revolutionary and scalable agile methodology that enables any team, including teams within enterprise IT organizations, to achieve rapid, reliable releases through better collaboration between developers, testers, DBAs and operations, and automation of the build, deploy, test and release process...
2:00 p.m. - 2:10 p.m.	Break
2:10 p.m. - 3:10 p.m.	Discussion Circles Discussion Circles Intense, interactive discussions on topics YOU select.
3:10 p.m. - 3:20 p.m.	Break
3:20 p.m. - 4:20 p.m.	Mark Striebeck, Google What Does Lean Mean at Google? Mark Striebeck is an engineering director at Google where he is responsible for the frontend development of Gmail. Before that, he was in charge of Google's developer testing  infrastructure, tools and adoption...
4:20 p.m. - 5:20 p.m.	Networking Event - sponsored by eBECS Chillin' at the Summit with eBECS Join Summit sponsor eBECS, fellow participants, and the team of presenters for a tasty ice cream treat to finish off a sweet day of discussion. And while you're there, check out Steve Bell's just-released book, "Run Grow Transform: Integrating Business and Lean IT."

Lean IT Summit: Day 2

 Tuesday, September 11th

7:00 a.m. - 8:00 a.m.

Networking Breakfast

8:00 a.m. - 9:10 a.m.

9:10 a.m. - 9:20 a.m.

Break

9:20 a.m. - 10:20 a.m.

10:20 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

Break

10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

11:30 a.m. - 12:40 p.m.

Networking Lunch

12:40 p.m. - 1:40 p.m.

1:40 p.m. - 1:50 p.m.

Break

1:50 p.m. - 2:50 p.m.

2:50 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Break

3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

   OPTIONAL POST-SUMMIT WORKSHOP
  Wednesday, September 12th

8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.