Konferencja Lean IT Forum 2017

Is an international, single day conference that brings Lean IT and Agile community together. The goal of the event is share ideas, exchange knowledge and meet new people. We aim to present cases, which illustrate lean approaches applied in IT context. We want to show how organizations are balancing between social aspect of lean and lean tools, methods and their implementation.

3 characteristics that make this event unique and worth coming:

• 1 Special guest – Mike Orzen, the godfather of Lean IT
• 2 No theory, focus on hands-on experience
• 3 An international event in the center of Europe

Konferencja Lean IT Forum 2017 program

• Krzyszof Kozakiewicz CEO / Let's Manage IT Opening
• Mike Orzen Mike Orzen & Associates, Inc. Lean, Agile, DevOps – Putting the puzzle together

Block 1: Lean, Agile, DevOps – Putting the puzzle together

• Marcin Kokott STX Next Beyond Agile, Lean, DevOps: Journey towards the Product Ownership In most of the companies when you mention „change” people start to scream and run away. We identify change with something negative and huge. But what will happen if you overcome that? What you are doing when you heat the limits of known frameworks from Agile. What if the even tripled efficiency of development is not giving the customer more business value? Soon enough you think about the change in context not the team, project but the customer, product and Business Models. Welcome to the world of "Product Ownership as a Service” where each developer can be Product Owner, DevOps, Tester, Scrum Master and Sells Representative using Agile, Lean, Theory of Constraints.
• Paweł Stanaszek Aviva Poland General Improvement Department – Lean, Agile, DevOps? Create your very own set of practices Our simple steps toward improvements were forced upon us by a rapidly changing environment. In all modern business you must learn to adapt quickly, or perish! This led to us creating a totally new approach, which at the end we call DevOps. Generally, DevOps may already be familiar to some of you, however…
• Paweł Bartusch LUX MED Beyond the puzzle – there are more than 3 pieces

Block 2: Developing a Lean Culture

• Ł. Jeż, K. Wójcik Volvo Group IT 3 years of Lean transformation in Volvo Group IT Laying solid foundations and overcoming obstacles Back in 2014, Volvo Group IT has started Lean transformation journey, targeting at 4000+ employees located in 9 sites around the globe. Now, 8 waves later, with 170+ teams constituting 60% of organization practicing Lean, we have adjusted original McKinsey methodology to our unique corporate culture and supplemented it with elements we found necessary: lean pathway for top management and post-implementation care package. Next frontier ahead of us is ensuring tangible and sustainable improvements of business results are acknowledged widely across our organization.
• Michał Well IBM Continuous Improvement as a way of Thinking in IBM GSDC Wroclaw Continuously changing business environment requires from the all companies (both international corporation and Small and Medium Sized Enterprises) to become ready for strategy adaptation to the new requirements. Continuous Improvement (CI) approach support service companies to become a market leaders and to maintain achieved position it in the future. CI directly connected with Lean Management philosophy is a strong competitive advantage for business competitors. The aim of the speech is to show how IBM GSDC Wroclaw start with Lean Management approach and how the company is transforming over the years by Continuous Improvement. Presentation will show how Lean Management methodology and CI are adapted and used by the IBM in the IT environment, by integration of Operations, Performance and People.
• S. Drzewiecki, W. Ruta GSK How to have even more fun from lean We are passionate about Lean and we believe Lean is good for the business as well as for private life. During the session we would like to share our experience of how to engage people and have fun with Lean and at the same time to be very efficient and target oriented. GSK monitors email communications sent to and from GSK in order to protect GSK, our employees, customers, suppliers and business partners, from cyber threats and loss of GSK Information. GSK monitoring is conducted with appropriate confidentiality controls and in accordance with local laws and after appropriate consultation.

Block 3: Making use of Lean Tools and Methods

• Paweł Pierzchałka BNP Paribas Use Case 2.0 – a scalable approach to derive requirements, improve collaboration, promote the lean mindset in Business and IT for driving development. The case study explains what the Use Case 2.0 is about, and shows how the basic principles (as listed above) are represented by Use Case 2.0. It focuses on the BNP Paribas/Consorsbank Use Case 2.0 approach implementation. It shows how this practice is bringing together the Business and IT in cross-functional requirements exploration crews. It discusses the usage of the Kanban boards for organizing the common streamlined flow, in order to feed up the incremental development in small slices. It shows also the outlook of the practical tool implementation
• Niels Loader Quint Wellington Redwood Lean IT tools: equal, but some more equal than others?
• Mike Orzen Mike Orzen & Associates, Inc. Closing keynote

Konferencja Lean IT Forum 2017 speakers

• Mike Orzen Mike Orzen & Associates, Inc. Coauthor of the award-winning book “Lean IT: Enabling and Sustaining Your Lean Enterprise.” The principles of the book extend far beyond Information Technology (IT) and apply to all aspects of business, particularly the support functions of any organization.
• Paweł Bartusch IT Operations Head / LUX MED Paweł has over 15 years’ of experience related to IT industry. He is an enthusiast of DevOps approach. Responsible for strategy in the area of infrastructure and IT operations. From 2012, also a member of the global team working on the transformation of GE Capital IT towards solutions based on cloud computing , automation and continuous delivery.
• Katarzyna Wójcik Manager VPS4IT (Lean) Center of Excellence / Volvo Group IT Katarzyna has over 10 years of managerial experience from different areas of IT company’s operation including line management, project management and product management. Co-author of the Lean training and practicing program for mangers in Volvo Group IT.
• Łukasz Jeż Lean IT Manager / Volvo Group IT 6 years hands-on experience of implementing Lean practices in white-collar environment: IT, Supply Chain, Finance, Marketing & Sales, and Management Teams. Leading Lean transformations where sustainable improvements of tangible business results were aligned with teams’ empowerment and development. Six Sigma Greenbelt.
• Michał Well Program Manager / IBM Michal is an experience Program Manager for Improvement Projects for the Key Customers on the European level. He successfully introduced metrics based management system for the department and Lean Management Leader for the Service Management Unit. He took part in Delivery Framework implementation program within Global Service Delivery Centre in Wroclaw IBM office.
• Wiesława Ruta Head of Incident, Problem and Change  Managemet / GSK Additional accreditations include Six Sigma Black Belt, ITIL Expert, Lean Sigma Expert, certified internal auditor, ‘Job Plus Coach’. Currently working as the Head of Incident, Problem and Change Management in GSK, and serves as Process Owner of Incident, Problem and Change Management in the largest IT organization in GSK. Also hosts internal workshops from Service Performance Management, LEGO game.
• Sebastian Drzewiecki Head Of Business Service Center / GSK Sebastian has been working in Business Services Centres sector already 10 years. He joined GSK in 2005 as one of managers of new group established in Poznan. Next years he worked in Application Services designing, establishing and running services for sales and marketing business units. He was also engaged in major GSK programmes and setup of Business Services Network. He also worked for two years for HP, running BI global services. He returned to BSC Poznan in 2015.
• Paweł Pierzchałka Senior Expert IT Processes, Performance / BNP Paribas Pawel has led process improvement projects, spoken at diverse conferences. His qualifications include Project Management Professional (PMP), Lean Six Sigma. He is in charge of building-up the House of Lean IT Performance at Consorsbank Germany - a digital branch of BNP Paribas bank. Currently is also responsible for driving the Use Case 2.0 practice diffusion with the objective to bring Business and IT together, and streamline the common flow of work.
• Marcin Kokott Service Delivery Manager / STX Next 10 Years of experience as mentor, coach, manager, business owner and conference speaker. Expert in the area of Agile, Lean IT, Lean Leadership, Business Models and Customer Development. Co-founder, Board Member and CPO of CloudYourCar. Created and conducted workshops with 4000+ people in 7 countries. Lead Agile/Lean Transformation (9 countries, 3000+ people).
• Paweł Stanaszek Manager of Business Application Support Department IT / Aviva Poland  Pawel is an IT Expert with over 17 years of experience. Currently responsible for business applications support and maintenance in Aviva Polska. His role is to support business by delivery high level services, cooperate with others IT Teams as well as IT Vendors. He gained experience mainly in financial companies such as ABN Amro Bank, Deutsche Bank, RBS, Unicredit, but also in retail - Carrefour Polska. Expert in ITIL and People Management.
• Niels Loader Partner & Principal Consultant / Quint Wellington Redwood Niels Loader is a Principal

Kinoteka, Pałac Kultury i Nauki, plac Defilad 1, Warszawa