Joakim Sundén
Joakim is an agile and lean coach with Avega Group. He helps clients improve through coaching and mentoring of individuals, teams and organisations. This is often accomplished using agile and lean software development methodologies such as Scrum, XP and Kanban. When working as a developer coach Joakim favours Test Driven Development, refactoring and evolutionary object-oriented design, mainly on the .NET platform. He is an organiser of, and active participant in, conferences, networks and user groups in the agile, lean and .NET communities. David J. Anderson, “the father of Kanban”, personally recommends and endorses Joakim as a knowledgeable Kanban coach.
Track abstract - Agile in the organisation
Drinking from the source - A report from a lean enthusiast’s pilgrimage to Toyota
We learned lean manufacturing from Toyota decades ago and later applied the principles to a variety of different industries, e.g., software development. Today Toyota has its own automotive software department. Could we learn something from studying the way Toyota develops software? Or from other Japanese companies that picked up TPS and lean early on? These and other questions led me and a group of other lean enthusiasts to go on a ‘pilgrimage’ to Toyota and other lean companies in Japan, guided by the Poppendiecks, to drink directly from the source. This seminar is a report from that journey and contains some shocking truths about the birthplace of lean
Track abstract - Development Process & Methodology
Flow where you can, pull where you must - a practitioners guide to Kanban
Kanban is a software development methodology that implements the pull and flow elements of lean thinking. It’s an alternative to agile methods such as Scrum when you want to change the culture of an organisation in a lean/agile direction, or when the nature of work does not suit time-boxed iterations, e.g., maintenance. But it is also a tool that can enhance other methodologies through visualisation of the workflow to highlight problems, limiting work in progress to eliminate waste etc. I introduce Kanban from a practitioners point of view which let you get started with Kanban right away, regardless of what methodology you use today.
