Presented at LAST (Lean Agile Systems Thinking) Conference Melbourne 2016. “You don’t add value, the Operators are the only ones who add value,” was a statement said to me as an Engineer while launching a commercial airplane into production. We often compare software development to Lean manufacturing. Lean is about maximising value, but what about us who don’t code? This presentation touches on the perception change that I went through, exploring non-value added work and how this influences work in software development today, from cloud to mobile. This topic aimed at those in digital who don’t code, and that software development more than just coding.

1. Lean manufacturing is not like
so2ware development
Darren Duarte
Agile Consultant @ Elabor8

3. What’s Lean?

5. Quality
Engineering
Design
R&D
Finance
Manufacturing
OperaIons
Materials,
Processes &
Technology
FaciliIes
Maintenance
Training
Governing
bodies
Environment,
Health & Safety
SpecificaIon
Owners
LogisIcs
InternaIonal
Counterparts

6. “You don’t add value, the Operators are the only
one who adds value”
Manufacturing Manager

7. What? ... Why?

9. Value adding in a cake! (or an airplane)
Repeatable Zero defects

10. Value-add in creaIng an airplane
Value
Time
Design Manufacturing

11. Product?
Product
Development?

12. But in so2ware, we’re not creaIng the
same product over and over

13. We’re creaIng new exciIng products!
O2en we don’t know
how to get there….
But Developers help
us get to there

14. We don’t give developers a step-by-step guide
to create code

15. So so2ware development is not like lean
manufacturing
What’s it like then?
Designing an airplane!

16. Market disrupIon

17. A product manager’s vision
“Our strategy has been to design and build an airplane that
will take passengers where they want to go, when they want
to go, without intermediate stops; do it efficiently while
providing the utmost comfort to passengers; and make it
simple and cost-effecIve for airlines to operate” (2006)
-Marty Bentroe
VP of sales, marke6ng & in-service support 787

18. Over 55 new routes!
May 2015

19. boeing.com/commercial/787

20. Market changes

21. Another digital example

22. UX tesIng

23. Non-funcIon requirements

24. Automated tesIng

25. AnalyIcs

26. CollaboraIon: regulators & compeItors

27. Great teams li2 in challenging Imes

28. IT OperaIons

29. Value-add in creaIng an airplane
Value
Time
Design Manufacturing

30. Value-add in so2ware
Value
Time
Requirements Coding
Waterfall

31. Value-add in so2ware
Value
Time
Requirements Coding
Waterfall
Scrum
Sprint 1 Sprint 2

32. TesIng
Business
Analysis
UX
OperaIons
Market
Research
SoluIon
Design &
Architecture
ReporIng
Project
Management
AnalyIcs
Governing
bodies
CompeItor
Analysis
Product
Management
Finance
MarkeIng
Sales &
Support

33. So2ware development is not like lean
manufacturing…
It’s more like designing an airplane

34. Thank you
Darren Duarte
Agile Consultant @ Elabor8
au.linkedin.com/in/darrenduarte