I founded the Lean Software Institute in 2004 to help introduce Lean to the software industry. Early on we went beyond processes and value streams and began teaching our clients how to map and improve their organizations as interacting systems. We developed a 5D framework as an extension to Toyota’s Lean methodology to address the [...]
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LSI to hold Executive Seminar in Copenhagen on November 8, 2011
We are pleased to announce that LSI will be holding a full-day executive seminar in Copenhagen on November 8, 2011. Our collaboration partner and host for this event is the Danish IT Industry Association, ITB. For more information and registration, visit the ITB event page. Lean Transformation in the Software Industry: The Big Picture Lean [...]
Welcoming Arne Ahlander as our new VP of Client Services
I am excited to welcome Arne Åhlander into a new, global role for the Lean Software Institute, as our VP of Client Services. Arne previously served as our Director of Business Development in Sweden. In his new role, Arne will be replacing Mark Wallace, who is leaving to pursue other interests. I am personally grateful [...]
LSI to present at the Conference on Lean Enterprise Software and Systems in Stockholm, Sweden, on October 30th-November 2nd, 2011
We are pleased to announce that Frode L. Odegard, our Founder and CEO, will be speaking at the Conference on Lean Enterprise Software and Systems in Stockholm, Sweden, on October 30th-November 2nd, 2011. Frode will be giving a talk on Lean leadership challenges and he will also deliver a full-day executive workshop on how to [...]
LSI to present at the Lean Kanban Central Europe Conference in Munich, Germany, on October 17-18, 2011
We are pleased to announce that Eilif Monrad-Krohn, our Director of Business Development in Germany, will be presenting at the Munich Lean Kanban Central Europe Conference on October 17-18, 2011. Beyond Kanban: A Lean Systems Approach Abstract Kanban scheduling in software development represents a great advance over fixed-iteration approaches such as Scrum. However, implementations still face [...]
Announcing partnership with LeanKit
We are pleased to announce our partnership with LeanKit, a leading provider of electronic Kanban solutions. Our relationship with LeanKit stretches goes back about 18 months already. In May of 2010, we conducted a fun podcast interview with Chris Hefley, the Co-founder and CEO of LeanKit (then Bandit Software). Last week, we also announced that [...]
Juha Christensen joins LSI’s advisory board
When we moved our US office to Silicon Valley I knew it would be important to find a locally based advisory board member. After four months of talking to several impressive candidates, I finally asked Juha Christensen to join. I am very excited that he has agreed to do so. Juha is Chairman of Cogniance [...]
Beyond Value Streams: Business Systems
The models we use to describe the world impact how we see it and how we reflect on what we see. Our models also shape our thinking about what might be improved and how. Just consider the impact of military strategy and sports on business thinking. When we began our mission to bring Lean to [...]
Announcing our move to Silicon Valley
When I founded the Lean Software Institute back in 2004, everyone kept asking me when I would move it up from San Diego to the San Francisco Bay Area. And every time I was in Silicon Valley giving a talk, the question would come up again. I figured it was good enough that we were [...]
James Sutton joins LSI’s Advisory Board
Back in 2006, a couple of years after I founded the Lean Software Institute, I came across a really great book called “Lean Software Strategies”, co-authored by James Sutton from Lockheed and Dr. Peter Middleton from Queen’s University Belfast. Unlike others who began with Agile software development as a starting point for introducing Lean, the [...]