Lean Software Development Leader's Workshop

International thought-leaders and acclaimed authors Mary and Tom Poppendieck are coming to Wellington, New Zealand and will deliver their 'Lean Software Development Leader's Workshop' in partnership with Equinox on 12 and 13 December 2011. Book now to secure your place on this popular workshop.

Learn first-hand from Mary and Tom Poppendieck how to reframe your software development process from the perspective of lean principles. Mary and Tom have pioneered the application of Lean Thinking to software development and are acclaimed authors of three books on the topic.

Software is the heart and soul of a vast number of products and business processes; every year the ability to develop robust software systems quickly and reliably becomes more critical to the world economy. And yet, most companies use software development processes that were born when systems were coded in assembly language and computer hardware was more expensive than programmers' salaries.

Today we have pervasive internet, omnipresent social media, big data, and massively scalable hardware. These advances have flourished largely outside the realm of traditional software development practices, and they call into question the conventional wisdom of what it means to develop, scale, and maintain excellent software-intensive systems.

It's time to re-think our approach to software development processes, our perception of the people who create software, and our governance systems. This workshop presents an alternate framework for thinking about developing software-intensive systems - one based on Lean principles and the thinking of W. Edwards Deming.