Maintaining a Product Enhancements & Agile Development
To educate startup founders and management teams on how to effectively maintain and enhance their products, while also staying agile in their development process. This typically includes information on how to use agile development methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban, and Lean, which are designed to help teams iterate quickly and respond to changing customer needs and market conditions. The session may also cover how to prioritize and plan product enhancements, how to gather and incorporate customer feedback, and how to use data to make informed decisions about product development. The overall goal is to help startups understand how to maintain and improve their products, while also staying nimble and responsive to the ever-changing market conditions and customer needs.
3. • Nile University Egypt
• Master's degree in the Management of Technology
• Thesis Topic: Logistics 4.0 Implementation
Framework
• Helwan University, Egypt
• IEEE Technology and Engineering
Management Society Egypt’s Chapter Vice-
chair
• Business Consultant, Khwarizm for Business
Development
• Quality Auditor at TCTI Project at GIZ Egypt
• Incubation Manager at Nile University
• Project Manager at Ta’heal for Vocational Skills
Excellence
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• Project Manager of Innovation pillar at IECC
(Innovation, Entrepreneurship and
Competitiveness Centre) at Nile University.
• Researcher and technology transfer officer at
IECC, Nile University
• Entrepreneurship trainer at Injaz
Egypt,
• Lean consultant at Symbios-consulting Egypt
• Co-founder and CEO of Kaizen for Biomedical
13. Long-term philosophy
Train
Install Value
Install
Value
Train
Value
Install
Train
“Tools” “Processes” “Business System”
Phase:
“Customer-driven to improve
service levels & profitability”
Internal Focus External Focus Strategic Focus
“Event-driven to teach lean
skills and reduce costs”
Internal Focus
“Enterprise-wide adoption
For most effective growth”
Institutionalize
Lean Concepts
Transform Entire
Enterprise
Organizations typically go through three phases to achieve sustained
profitable growth from the implementation of Lean Sigma
14. The Eight Wastes Defined
Transportation
Inventory
Motion
Waiting
Excessive movement by people or machines.
Product moving from person to person or between locations.
Producing more product than is required at the current time.
Unnecessary work beyond what is required to meet customer requirements.
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Overprocessing
Overproduction
Defects
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Periods of inactivity while waiting for the next process step to begin.
Unprocessed or partially processed materials, or undelivered finished goods.
Process steps that result in scrap, rework or re-processing.
Behavioral
8 Unused creativity and underutilized human capital.
15. The Eight Wastes
Waste Examples (Operations & Office)
Transportation
Inventory
Motion
Waiting
Overprocessing
Overproduction
Defects
Behavioral Waste
Walking, document hand-off (including electronic)
Raw materials stored in a warehouse, Transactions/documents
waiting in queue (e.g. incomplete customer order)
Reaching, bending, searching for documents
No work, approval turnaround time (e.g. waiting for a quote from a
supplier)
Excessive part tolerances, unnecessary approvals/ reports,
excessive/ duplicative information
People working just to keep busy (no demand), working ahead of
schedule, building up large transaction queues, making extra copies
Damage part, customer order with incomplete or wrong information,
not appropriate staffing, data entry errors
Silence, insufficient time devoted to continuous improvement
activity, inadequate performance management system
19. How Lean works in business
Lean…………………………..
Profit Expenses
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24. “Business Model”
“The story that explains how an enterprise works.”
-Joan Magretta
“A business model describes how an organization creates,
delivers, and captures value.”
-Alex Osterwalder