35 years ago, Eliyahu Goldratt introduced the Theory of Constraints (ToC) in his seminal book "The Goal" as a new management paradigm for manufacturing plants, struggling with excess inventory, late deliveries, poor quality. The ToC solved this through five focusing steps - a guideline to systematic improvement and continuous learning.

Today, the ToC is one of the pillars of the DevOps movement. This talk will present its principles, and how it applies to the software industry, through a mix of…

This talk will provide insights for a successful integration of lean-quality management to scaled agile projects. We will show based on our project experience that by improving process quality, higher product quality is achieved, resulting in significantly increased customer satisfaction. We will share how the lean principles and an easy-to-use toolkit helped us to tackle complex problems by providing a proven and scalable approach for continuous improvement and boost business agility at the…

Apache Kafka became the de facto standard for microservice architectures. Decoupled applications and Domain-driven Design (DDD) are key benefits. However, that also introduces new challenges like observability of the whole ecosystem. This session explores the problems of distributed Microservices communication and how Kafka, Kubernetes and a Service Mesh like Istio address them. Learn some approaches for combining them to build a reliable and scalable microservice architecture with decoupled and…

We took advantage of the COVID digitalization challenge and converted our Design Sprints and UX workshops into a digital format. A dozen customer workshops in a wide variety of contexts (including logistics, public and chemical clients) have demonstrated UX workshops can also work virtualized with some advantages, e.g. being able to integrate participants from remote locations cost-effectively. In this session evaluated tools, techniques, best practices and lessons learned virtualizing UX…