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…

This workshop gives a short introduction to BOSSA nova (Beyond Budgeting, Open Space, Sociocracy and Agile combined to support company-wide agility), but is mainly very interactive, supported by various Liberating Structures.

It helps the participants to identify and refine their biggest challenges in the agile transformation in their organization and provides a structure in which they can create and improve a probe that they can start with when back in office.

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The Extended Business Model Canvas (EBMC) links Lean Portfolio Management, System Thinking, Lean Product development, and agile development in a way suitable for established enterprises, not just startups.

Two additional components, the "Contribution to Strategy" and "Technical Debt," apply now to both operational and development values. Those components are supported by two special lenses that help agile teams to connect better, align, and achieve more business agility.

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Together with 100 IT engineers we have been given the freedom to figure out how to transform from doing traditional IT Operations to being agile.

We use Scrum@Scale and Heart of Agile to remove debt; Organizational Debt in the form of old leadership structures that create unclear mandate for scrum roles and prevents organizing around products; Technical Debt that keeps us busy maintaining old technologies and prevents the creation of relevant cloud infrastructure products.

Our story is about how…

Over the history of software systems, the way we build such artifacts, the way we design them, the way we express them have evolved in seemingly disruptive ways. Even today, the pendulum swings between low ceremony agile methods to more rigid waterfall-ish ones; from big balls of mud to microservices and then back to big balls of microservices. In this talk, we'll examine the past, the present, and the future of software architecture: the role it plays in software systems, and the timeless…

At the core of agile development are self-organizing cross-functional teams. Yet, this is often understood as e.g. backend & front-end developers working together. If an organization is aiming for company-wide agility, to fully benefit from agility it has to enable teams as value centers that are truly cross-functional by bringing in different perspectives from business, markets, cultures, beliefs etc. This way cross-functional teams overcome not only the limitations of organizational silos but…