Overview

The 2-day course is an interactive learning experience for participants covering core principles of Lean. The participants understand the importance of delivering customer value and reducing the waste. The focus of this course is on adoption of Lean in IT projects in organisations and achieve operational excellence. The course is a combination of lecture and hands-on activities for better understanding on how to implement Lean principles in an Information Technology environment.

Agenda

• Introduction to Lean, History, and Features of Lean
• Importance to understand and deliver customer value
• Overview to waste (muda), variability (mura), and overburden (muri)
• Different types of waste
• Lean Principles for waste elimination
• Application of Lean Analytical tools
• Reduce cost by eliminating waste
• Challenges in IT infrastructure and processes
• Significance of behaviour and attitude
• Benefits of application of Lean to IT environment.

Learning Objective

• Historical development of Lean, Toyota Production System and Features of Lean
• Basic concepts of Lean and its core principles
• Understand how to maximize customer value by reducing waste
• Concept of Muda, Mura and Muri and different types of waste
• Understand how to apply various Lean analytical tools
• Learn about key Lean Metrics such as Process Time, Delay Time, Lead Time, %Complete and Accurate
• Role of behaviour and attitude in achieving operational excellence with Lean for IT implementation
• Identify and reduce non-value adding activities for greater strategic and financial value.

Audience

• Organizational Leaders, Managers and Team Members wanting to understand the value of Lean IT
• Project Managers, Scrum Masters, Development Managers, QA Managers, R & D Managers, Senior-level Managers and Leaders
• Anyone new to Lean

Course Deliverables

• In-person 2 day training, full of fun and learning
• Participation Certificate on request.