How Kanban, Lean and Agile helped us to save a hospital in Bandung, Indonesia. Twice!
As an IT consultant with a lot of kanban, lean and agile experience I was interested to see if I could use that knowledge when working for the Salvation Army Health Foundation in Indonesia.
I got ample opportunity to try.
In this talk I will describe how the basic ideas of Kanban, Lean and Agile helped us to save a hospital from bankruptcy (or worse!). Twice.
In using these principles and ideas in a total different setting I gained a much deeper understanding of them, and also needed to find other ways to describe and apply the practices I've taken for granted in "our" culture and setting.
LeanKit Webinar: Evolving Your Daily Standup with Kanban by Brendan WovchkoLeanKit
Have your daily standups become stale? Discover how to reinvigorate the conversation by focusing on the core principles of Kanban.
Brendan Wovchko of HUGE I/O will explain how to engage teams with meaningful questions that surface problems, reduce process waste and improve the flow of work.
You'll learn how to:
- “Walk the board” with Kanban
- Experiment with fresh questions and techniques
- Decide if your daily standup really needs to be daily
Enabling your team to identify improvement opportunities on a daily basis promotes self-organization and keeps the focus on delivering value.
How Kanban, Lean and Agile helped us to save a hospital in Bandung, Indonesia. Twice!
As an IT consultant with a lot of kanban, lean and agile experience I was interested to see if I could use that knowledge when working for the Salvation Army Health Foundation in Indonesia.
I got ample opportunity to try.
In this talk I will describe how the basic ideas of Kanban, Lean and Agile helped us to save a hospital from bankruptcy (or worse!). Twice.
In using these principles and ideas in a total different setting I gained a much deeper understanding of them, and also needed to find other ways to describe and apply the practices I've taken for granted in "our" culture and setting.
LeanKit Webinar: Evolving Your Daily Standup with Kanban by Brendan WovchkoLeanKit
Have your daily standups become stale? Discover how to reinvigorate the conversation by focusing on the core principles of Kanban.
Brendan Wovchko of HUGE I/O will explain how to engage teams with meaningful questions that surface problems, reduce process waste and improve the flow of work.
You'll learn how to:
- “Walk the board” with Kanban
- Experiment with fresh questions and techniques
- Decide if your daily standup really needs to be daily
Enabling your team to identify improvement opportunities on a daily basis promotes self-organization and keeps the focus on delivering value.
gineering teams. This workshop will cover everything you need to know to work seamlessly with engineering teams that use agile principles and practices.
What you will learn:
• Basics of the agile methods.
• Tips you can apply the very next day at work.
• Actionable tools and tactics to handle different product team scenarios that a product manager face.
Who is this workshop for:
• Software engineers who want to transition to Product Management
• MBAs with a finance/consulting background who want to work in high-tech companies as a Product Manager
• Project Managers, Marketers, Designers who are seeking for new opportunities in Product Management
Introduction to kanban:
This is a snippet of a larger powerpoint that I presented to the Marketing and Communications team at my organization. We presented findings from a pilot that supported our move to kanban. The presentation outlines core properties and principles of kanban that center around continuous improvement.
Structuring Processes and Workflows for Your WordPress BusinessHandsOnWP.com
As a WordPress freelancer, you can often find processes for developing a theme or setting up a development server. However, our community rarely discusses how a WordPress Consultant can identify those areas of our business that need process improvement. This interactive workshop examines the steps to identifying workflow patterns and develop repeatable business processes. As a group, we will discuss how to identify and prioritize your WordPress Consulting business’ goals and objectives. We will look at how you document your current business processes, and how to identify significant variations (process gaps) in your workflow that may be affecting your productivity and profitability. Bring your specific workflow issue and we will look at ways to develop a repeatable process that will align with the organization's goals and objectives.
This 1-hour workshop marries the best practices from product strategy with those of fast and efficient technology teamwork and delivery. You’ll learn how to get your product organization working as a single cohesive, well-oiled machine to deliver the right product to market as quickly as possible. We will cover how to use both qualitative and quantitative measures to ensure that your product is solving the right problem; how to optimize and streamline the way your team designs, builds, and deploys software to your customers; and, how to beat the competition in strategy and execution.
Talk given at Confoo16: Too many teams are working themselves to the bone day after day with no relief in sight. Too often, this unsustainable pace becomes permanent and work continues to pile on top of everything that's already in progress. Julia will share how Kanban helped teams at TBS and F5 Networks deliver more, reduce stress and tame the craziness of the new normal. Learn concepts you can adapt and apply to your context to make the everyday better!
Boston Ruby Meetup: The promise and peril of Agile and Lean practicesmtoppa
Why you may to consider adopting Agile or Lean practices, how they differ from each other, what benefits you can expect, and what obstacles you may face
The world around us filled a myriad of high performing, large throughput systems that we can borrow ideas from to help our IT teams and organizations perform and higher levels. Join us for a thought experiment where we examine several examples from our everyday world that can help us achieve unprecedented levels of flow and scale within our organizations.
Visualizing Work: If you can't see it, you can't manage itFernando Cuenca
Presentation delivered at Toronto Agile Conference - Oct 30, 2018
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Unlike a factory, where we can see work literally moving around, piling up waiting, being worked on, or even deteriorating with time, knowledge workers have to deal with abstract constructs that are largely invisible. Suddenly, answering questions like "what are we working on?" or "how does work get done here" can become tricky.
The basic premise that the first step towards effectively managing knowledge work is to make it visible will not come as a surprise for anyone with some familiarity with Agile. That said, there's more to effective work visualization than a 3-column board showing "To Do | In Progress | Done" columns, and visualizing work items is only the first step.
This session will explore approaches for visualizing otherwise invisible aspects of work, such as commitments, process, rules and, of course, work items, and using them to enable more effective management and collaboration.
All Play At Work - Recipes for Gamification in the Enterprise - Gayathri SekarConverge Pune
An exploration into the world of gamification through the real world experience of delivering business results and cultural change.
Find more about Converge Pune here- http://converge-pune.weebly.com/
gineering teams. This workshop will cover everything you need to know to work seamlessly with engineering teams that use agile principles and practices.
What you will learn:
• Basics of the agile methods.
• Tips you can apply the very next day at work.
• Actionable tools and tactics to handle different product team scenarios that a product manager face.
Who is this workshop for:
• Software engineers who want to transition to Product Management
• MBAs with a finance/consulting background who want to work in high-tech companies as a Product Manager
• Project Managers, Marketers, Designers who are seeking for new opportunities in Product Management
Introduction to kanban:
This is a snippet of a larger powerpoint that I presented to the Marketing and Communications team at my organization. We presented findings from a pilot that supported our move to kanban. The presentation outlines core properties and principles of kanban that center around continuous improvement.
Structuring Processes and Workflows for Your WordPress BusinessHandsOnWP.com
As a WordPress freelancer, you can often find processes for developing a theme or setting up a development server. However, our community rarely discusses how a WordPress Consultant can identify those areas of our business that need process improvement. This interactive workshop examines the steps to identifying workflow patterns and develop repeatable business processes. As a group, we will discuss how to identify and prioritize your WordPress Consulting business’ goals and objectives. We will look at how you document your current business processes, and how to identify significant variations (process gaps) in your workflow that may be affecting your productivity and profitability. Bring your specific workflow issue and we will look at ways to develop a repeatable process that will align with the organization's goals and objectives.
This 1-hour workshop marries the best practices from product strategy with those of fast and efficient technology teamwork and delivery. You’ll learn how to get your product organization working as a single cohesive, well-oiled machine to deliver the right product to market as quickly as possible. We will cover how to use both qualitative and quantitative measures to ensure that your product is solving the right problem; how to optimize and streamline the way your team designs, builds, and deploys software to your customers; and, how to beat the competition in strategy and execution.
Talk given at Confoo16: Too many teams are working themselves to the bone day after day with no relief in sight. Too often, this unsustainable pace becomes permanent and work continues to pile on top of everything that's already in progress. Julia will share how Kanban helped teams at TBS and F5 Networks deliver more, reduce stress and tame the craziness of the new normal. Learn concepts you can adapt and apply to your context to make the everyday better!
Boston Ruby Meetup: The promise and peril of Agile and Lean practicesmtoppa
Why you may to consider adopting Agile or Lean practices, how they differ from each other, what benefits you can expect, and what obstacles you may face
The world around us filled a myriad of high performing, large throughput systems that we can borrow ideas from to help our IT teams and organizations perform and higher levels. Join us for a thought experiment where we examine several examples from our everyday world that can help us achieve unprecedented levels of flow and scale within our organizations.
Visualizing Work: If you can't see it, you can't manage itFernando Cuenca
Presentation delivered at Toronto Agile Conference - Oct 30, 2018
--
Unlike a factory, where we can see work literally moving around, piling up waiting, being worked on, or even deteriorating with time, knowledge workers have to deal with abstract constructs that are largely invisible. Suddenly, answering questions like "what are we working on?" or "how does work get done here" can become tricky.
The basic premise that the first step towards effectively managing knowledge work is to make it visible will not come as a surprise for anyone with some familiarity with Agile. That said, there's more to effective work visualization than a 3-column board showing "To Do | In Progress | Done" columns, and visualizing work items is only the first step.
This session will explore approaches for visualizing otherwise invisible aspects of work, such as commitments, process, rules and, of course, work items, and using them to enable more effective management and collaboration.
All Play At Work - Recipes for Gamification in the Enterprise - Gayathri SekarConverge Pune
An exploration into the world of gamification through the real world experience of delivering business results and cultural change.
Find more about Converge Pune here- http://converge-pune.weebly.com/
Hub16: How Pure Storage IT is driving rapid value across its business functionsAnaplan
Yousuf Khan, VP of IT at Pure Storage, shares how they rapidly implemented Anaplan to drive integrated business planning across their company, from Sales to Finance and Operations.
This presentation is prepared as part of nonprofit co-operation between ACM and Turkish universities to explore Agility together with graduate students.
The Association of Placement Practitioners of Colleges and Universities, Inc. (APPCU)-Cavite wishes to share to its existing and prospective members what bpocareerhub.comhas already done to serve its Customers and Partners.
Lean Startup comes with its own new vocabulary, and quite often, we either misunderstand those new terms, or try to find a parallel from the old world. This presentation is more like a Lean Startup 101
Finding a way to do things more efficiently is important - no matter what business you are in or what kind of projects you do.
Check out the basic Kanban principles that might change the way you work.
Good luck!
Finding a way to do things more efficiently is important - no matter what business you are in or what kind of projects you do.
I decided to help all the freshmen and share the basic Kanban principles with them.
Good luck!
Store Front Optimization | David Henry, Monster.com | iStrategy, LondoniStrategy
How to optimize your ecommerce store front.
Presented by David Henry, VP Digital Media and Marketing Europe of Monster.com during iStrategy London 2010.
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WordCamp Nashville 2016: The promise and peril of Agile and Lean practicesmtoppa
Why you may to consider adopting Agile or Lean practices, how they differ from each other, what benefits you can expect, and what obstacles you may face
HOW TO HACK A BOOTCAMP EXPERIENCE (10 WKS+)Kyra Peralte
Attending a tech Bootcamp to learn new skills? Seeking a career change to the technology industry? Use this strategy to help you get the most out of it and land a role.
Companies are multiplying initiatives to evolve their organization and ways of working to cope with the new challenges of competitive advantage – including how to leverage the potential of digital technologies. These efforts go by various names – Lean and Agile are the most popular, but we also hear about holacracy, the polycratic organization and exponential organizations. Beyond the name tags and labels, the real issue is a revolution in the role of management. Without this revolution, the new technologies don’t deliver on their promise, the organization just gets more complicated when the Agile paraphernalia is added on top of the structure and processes -- and productivity keeps declining while people disengage. Drawing on his contribution to the development of organization theory and his consulting work with more than 500 organizations, Yves Morieux will discuss the practical role of managers, their duties and ways to add value for the new organization to create profitable growth.
Based on empiricism and many case studies, the Kanban Maturity Model offers organizations pragmatic guidance about which of about 150 sub-practices within the Kanban method are aligned with their organizational maturity levels. It maps those practices to observable business outcomes using seven levels of maturity and aids evolution of processes. When it comes to evolution, Wardley Maps can show the state of evolution of components within a value stream in relation to a predefined anchor and helps with gaining situational awareness. In my talk I will show how Wardley Maps and the Kanban Maturity Model overlap and how you can use both in combination to assess how to choose appropriate methods and practices for the context you’re in.
Most companies claiming to, or wanting to, be agile, start at the team level. Often this involves adopting a model or framework that either only has those parts, or ignoring the Program and Stategy level changes. At best this inspires a change journey, but more often this yields little impact on the long term business metrics. In this session I will draw in my different experiences, as a Business Manager, Product Lead, and Coach designing effective orgs at Spotify, to demonstrate how the 3 lenses of Systems, Science and Sapiens, help in gather broader perspective, which ultimately leads to more effective, longer lasting, impact.
LKCE19 - Natalia de Souza Manha - Lean Portfolio Governance with Kanban in a ...Lean Kanban Central Europe
The goal of this presentation is to show how a Financial Technology Company in Brazil sustainable evolve from 20 teams running around 50 initiatives to 140 teams with more then 400 initiatives in 4 years, becoming NYSE's Biggest IPO Since Snap in 2018, following what we call an Agile Journey supported by Kanban. Some of the practices we use in our organization that will be presented here: Fit for Purpose clients segmentation, OKRs to provide alignment between strategic, tactical and operational levels, Lean Canvas and A3 for design, implementation and delivery process follow up and, finally, a Portfolio Kanban that started in a Power Point, with metrics done manually in Excel, based in the Spotify Product Development process and today is evolving based on Flight Levels, supported by tools as Swiftkanban and PowerBI and in the autonomy of people involved in this process, as Management and Product Owners.
LKCE19 - Katya Terekhova - Siberian tale, part 2: how we implemented classes ...Lean Kanban Central Europe
At Pushwoosh, we struggled to implement WIP limits for Upstream. Product managers generated tons of new(very important) features, queue before downstream development was full. Even though we had regular replenishment meetings where product managers and business picked things we should do next, it didn’ t help much.Managers were constantly fighting with each other, behind - the - scenes games and manipulations took place from time to time.Decisions were based on how convincing and impressive features’ presentation were or because someone worked out a deal with decision makers.At the same time, our CEO was often dissatisfied with the fact that improvements / features he requested were not implemented. On top of that, our development team had a conflict with the product team since PMs blamed developers that they cannot fulfil all their requests, while developers complained that the product team tries to push their features to development, no matter what, bypassing all agreements and processes.
LKCE19 - Bea Knippenberg & Daniel Schimera - Portfolio-Planung von Top-Down z...Lean Kanban Central Europe
Wer hat dies nicht auch schon erlebt – jedes Jahr findet sie statt – die Jahresplanung der Unternehmung. Ziele, die von „Oben“ vorgegeben werden, von der „Mitte“ mit konkreten Maßnahmen unterfüttert werden, welche wiederum zu einem Jahres-Portfolio führen, welches „Unten“ nur noch umsetzen muss.
Und dabei ist man doch soooo agil! < /br>
Nun ja, der Weg ist nie leicht.REWE Digital hat im letzten Jahr ein paar Veränderungen vorgenommen und organisiert inzwischen zum Beispiel ihr Portfolio mit Kanban.In unserem Erfahrungsbericht wollen wir unseren Weg von der Top - Down Jahres - & Portfolioplanung hinzu einer Bottom - Up und schließlich rollierenden Portfolioplanung teilen.
Das zweite Veränderungsprinzip von Kanban ('Vereinbare evolutionäre Prozessverbesserungen') mag den Eindruck erwecken, dass ein Mandat für eine Kanban-Initiative - sobald einmal vereinbart - verlässlich und stabil ist. Dieser Vortrag beleuchtet Situationen, in denen diese Annahme nicht gilt. Solche Situationen können unter anderem dann entstehen, wenn ein Mandat unwissentlich auf einer Illusion von Verständnis (etwa durch gemeinsam verwendete und verschieden interpretierte Vokabeln) beruht hat und diese Illusion im Laufe der Zeit offensichtlich wird. Der Vortrag nennt mögliche Konsequenzen und betont die Notwendigkeit einer ständigen und gleichzeitig ethisch begründeten Suche nach einem immer wieder neuen Mandat für Kanban. Er beschreibt den Umgang mit solchen Situationen aus der Erfahrungswelt des Vortragenden; eine Vielzahl von Anekdoten illustriert dabei mögliche Symptome eines fehlenden Mandats, ethische Spannungsfelder und auf leisen Sohlen wiederentdeckte Mandate in der Praxis.
LKCE19 - Dimitar Karaivanov - Business Agility through the Eyes of a Metalhea...Lean Kanban Central Europe
What if I told you that heavy metal and Agile have a lot in common? What if a musician could walk into a room full of Agile coaches and nobody could tell them apart? What if there are universal principles that can be applied irrespective of what you do? What if frameworks don’t actually work? Join the metalhead CEO and learn interesting things about music, Agile and life in general.
LKCE19 - Mathias Schroeder - Strategische Ausrichtung mal anders (aka Wardley...Lean Kanban Central Europe
Wie genau komme ich zu einer strategischen Ausrichtung? Welche Entscheidung treffe ich? Und wie oft muss ich das tun? In diesem Talk gibt Mathias eine kurze Einführung zu Wardley Maps und eine Vorstellung, was er bisher bei der Anwendung für Erfahrungen gemacht hat und welche Tipps und Tricks sich als sehr wertvoll herausgestellt haben.
Some companies motivate people with perks, ultimately draining motivation. Here’s a scientific explanation & some hands-on options for enabling true motivation.
This type is called autonomous motivation(AM).It’ s the inner engine that enables employees to produce exceptional results, act as intrapreneurs & handle stiff challenges with grace.Research shows, AM shouldn’ t be confused with intrinsic motivation or fun. < /br> High AM results in a reduced operational risk, as it lowers the probability of work - related accidents & decreases the error rate.An increased AM will lead to healthier employees & improve outcome quality.Yet, the most important effect: it enables people to think & work productively in complex contexts. < /br> I’ ll speak about the psychology of motivation & its 3 enablers.True agility, as it is embodied in the agile principles, spurs these 3 enablers.When they’ re mishandled, though, highly motivated teams can turn into passive groups of people who don’ t mind producing waste.
The Kanban Maturity Model democratizes successful Agile transformation. It enables faster, better results without the high costs and extreme failure rate associated with the conventional path to Agile. For over a decade, the Kanban Method has been your alternative path to agility. Now the KMM offers a map to consistently achieve superior business agility. Regardless of your starting conditions, the Kanban Maturity Model can help you improve collaboration, trust, team work, service delivery, customer satisfaction, business agility, risk management and economic performance. David’s talk explains how KMM helps you understand your context and choose appropriate Kanban practices. Your circumstances are unique. You need pragmatic, actionable, evidence-based guidance that works. The KMM codifies a decade of Kanban coaching experience and delivers it in a consumable package that will democratize business agility. KMM: successful evolutionary change for professional service businesses of every size and maturity level.
LKCE19 - Matías E. Fernández - Continuous Transformation in a Large Complex...Lean Kanban Central Europe
In 2017 we set out to become 'the best and coolest DevOps team in Switzerland'. Our ambition for the next three year was, and still is, to:
* reduce the number of critical incidents by 50 % every year
* reduce the cost for centralised quality assurance by 60 %
* reduce the amount of central leadership positions to 5 %
'We' means a team of approx 1.400 people working in software development in a large complex organisation, a leading telecommunications provider in Switzerland.
This is an experience report of our continuous transformation.
Das Wertschriftenabwicklungsvolumen der wichtigsten Kantonalbank in der Schweiz hat sich in den letzten drei Jahren beinahe verdoppelt. Im Backoffice hatte man sich zum Ziel gesetzt, diesen Anstieg ohne zusätzliche Ressourcen zu meistern. Dieses ambitionierte Ziel war der Startschuss einer Reise auf dem Pfad der kontinuierlichen Verbesserung. Innovationen zielgerichteter und schneller umsetzen zu können war die Motivation, die Grundprinzipien von Kanban waren der Kompass. Mit einem Rucksack voller Leidenschaft wurde gestartet zu neuen Denkweisen, zu eigenverantwortlichem Handeln und inspirierender Zusammenarbeit. Mit Erfolg!
Starting in early 2019 our stakeholders told us that delivering two epics per week is way too low. We then did a deep analysis of our problems using systems mappings and we derived actions from it. In my talk we take a look at these systems mappings, the derived actions, and their effects by using real data of our three level Kanban system. On our way towards operational excellence it is surprising which elements have an impact on WIP, throughput, cycle time and how this affects operating costs and the value we deliver to our customers.
LKCE19 - Nadine Wolf - Die sechs Kanban-Praktiken als Hilfsmittel für (Selbst...Lean Kanban Central Europe
Um die eigenen Leadership-Fähigkeiten auszubauen und selbst Führung für sich und andere zu übernehmen, gibt es einen Dschungel an Optionen. Das macht es nicht leichter, seinen eigenen Weg zu Wirksamkeit zu finden. Da stellt sich die Frage, auf welche konkreten Praktiken man sich dabei konzentrieren kann. So entstand die Idee, die sechs Kanban-Praktiken, die meistens auf Teams, per Portfolio-Kanban oder bezogen auf die ganze Organsiation angewendet werden, aus dem Blickwinkel der Selbstführung zu betrachten. Dieser Vortrag vermittelt Möglichkeiten, wie sich die sechs Kanban-Praktiken als Inspiration für wirksame (Selbst-)Führung nutzen lassen.
LKCE19 - Carmen Rudolph & Franziska Stoll - Meet Miss Moneypenny! Oder: 'Kann...Lean Kanban Central Europe
Rechnungswesen, Eventorganisation, Logistik- und Materialmanagement, Gästebetreuung, Officemanagement und die zuständige „Kannst-du-mal-kurz-Zentrale“ - Das Moneypenny Team bei it-agile ist vor allem eins: multidisziplinär. Die Vielschichtigkeit unserer Aufgaben zeigt sich auch auf unserem, über die Jahre stetig weiterentwickelten, Kanban-Board. Wir stellen vor, wie es uns gelingt, unterschiedlichste Aufgabenbereiche zu visualisieren, welche teameigenen Tools wir geschaffen haben und welchen Herausforderungen wir dabei bisher begegnet sind.
The Fit for Purpose Framework already gained momentum describing the criteria to develop the products and services that customers want and are willing to pay for. But how to start implementing the framework at your company? DYNAMIC is derived from STATIK and will provide the steps you can use to implement the F4P framework on your own.
LKCE19 - Kulawat Wongsaroj & Kamon Treetampinij - The House of Enterprise Agi...Lean Kanban Central Europe
Piloting Scrum teams in enterprise usually goes pretty well. You isolate your best people in dedicated teams focusing on the same new product without any interruption. You have demo sessions in the spotlight of top management every two weeks. How can it possibly go wrong?
The problem begins when the management asks you to scale your success through the rest of the company.You then learn it the hard way that Scrum of Scrum is not enough, Spotify model is chaotic, SAFe is too much and LeSS is too ideal.You were told Agile is a mindset and you need to create your own blueprint but you are lost in the ocean of scaled agile frameworks.
This talk tells our story of how we put together a set of fundamental tools in The House of Enterprise Agility to help our enterprise client improve their business agility. Many of them have very little to do with information technology.If you are looking for inspiration to create your own enterprise agile blueprint, this talk might interest you.
Immer mehr Organisationen setzen Flight Levels als ein Denkmodell ein, damit das Unternehmen agil am Markt agieren kann. Dafür braucht es sehr viel mehr, als einfach nur ein paar Teams zu agilisieren. In diesem Vortrag werde ich anhand eines Unternehmens zeigen, wie Flight Levels dafür verwendet werden, teamübergreifende Business Agilität zu erreichen. Ich werde auch darauf eingehen, welche Boards gebaut wurden, um agile Interaktionen zwischen den Teams zu etablieren und wie sich die Arbeit über die Boards bewegt, damit strategisches Alignment in der gesamten Organisation erreicht wird.
LKCE19 Jochen Goeser & Carmen Knippenberg - Flight Level Boards - Experiences...Lean Kanban Central Europe
Bosch Power Tools is undergoing its biggest transformation ever with the 'Agile Transformation @ PT' project. After having created around 50 cross-functional purpose teams we are looking into how to align them and also come to the next level - making PT a true business agile organization.
Artificial intelligence (AI) offers new opportunities to radically reinvent the way we do business. This study explores how CEOs and top decision makers around the world are responding to the transformative potential of AI.
Oprah Winfrey: A Leader in Media, Philanthropy, and Empowerment | CIO Women M...CIOWomenMagazine
This person is none other than Oprah Winfrey, a highly influential figure whose impact extends beyond television. This article will delve into the remarkable life and lasting legacy of Oprah. Her story serves as a reminder of the importance of perseverance, compassion, and firm determination.
Senior Project and Engineering Leader Jim Smith.pdfJim Smith
I am a Project and Engineering Leader with extensive experience as a Business Operations Leader, Technical Project Manager, Engineering Manager and Operations Experience for Domestic and International companies such as Electrolux, Carrier, and Deutz. I have developed new products using Stage Gate development/MS Project/JIRA, for the pro-duction of Medical Equipment, Large Commercial Refrigeration Systems, Appliances, HVAC, and Diesel engines.
My experience includes:
Managed customized engineered refrigeration system projects with high voltage power panels from quote to ship, coordinating actions between electrical engineering, mechanical design and application engineering, purchasing, production, test, quality assurance and field installation. Managed projects $25k to $1M per project; 4-8 per month. (Hussmann refrigeration)
Successfully developed the $15-20M yearly corporate capital strategy for manufacturing, with the Executive Team and key stakeholders. Created project scope and specifications, business case, ROI, managed project plans with key personnel for nine consumer product manufacturing and distribution sites; to support the company’s strategic sales plan.
Over 15 years of experience managing and developing cost improvement projects with key Stakeholders, site Manufacturing Engineers, Mechanical Engineers, Maintenance, and facility support personnel to optimize pro-duction operations, safety, EHS, and new product development. (BioLab, Deutz, Caire)
Experience working as a Technical Manager developing new products with chemical engineers and packaging engineers to enhance and reduce the cost of retail products. I have led the activities of multiple engineering groups with diverse backgrounds.
Great experience managing the product development of products which utilize complex electrical controls, high voltage power panels, product testing, and commissioning.
Created project scope, business case, ROI for multiple capital projects to support electrotechnical assembly and CPG goods. Identified project cost, risk, success criteria, and performed equipment qualifications. (Carrier, Electrolux, Biolab, Price, Hussmann)
Created detailed projects plans using MS Project, Gant charts in excel, and updated new product development in Jira for stakeholders and project team members including critical path.
Great knowledge of ISO9001, NFPA, OSHA regulations.
User level knowledge of MRP/SAP, MS Project, Powerpoint, Visio, Mastercontrol, JIRA, Power BI and Tableau.
I appreciate your consideration, and look forward to discussing this role with you, and how I can lead your company’s growth and profitability. I can be contacted via LinkedIn via phone or E Mail.
Jim Smith
678-993-7195
jimsmith30024@gmail.com
The case study discusses the potential of drone delivery and the challenges that need to be addressed before it becomes widespread.
Key takeaways:
Drone delivery is in its early stages: Amazon's trial in the UK demonstrates the potential for faster deliveries, but it's still limited by regulations and technology.
Regulations are a major hurdle: Safety concerns around drone collisions with airplanes and people have led to restrictions on flight height and location.
Other challenges exist: Who will use drone delivery the most? Is it cost-effective compared to traditional delivery trucks?
Discussion questions:
Managerial challenges: Integrating drones requires planning for new infrastructure, training staff, and navigating regulations. There are also marketing and recruitment considerations specific to this technology.
External forces vary by country: Regulations, consumer acceptance, and infrastructure all differ between countries.
Demographics matter: Younger generations might be more receptive to drone delivery, while older populations might have concerns.
Stakeholders for Amazon: Customers, regulators, aviation authorities, and competitors are all stakeholders. Regulators likely hold the greatest influence as they determine the feasibility of drone delivery.
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21. - Start with what you do
now
- Agree to pursue
evolutionary change
- Initially, respect current
roles, responsibilities and
job titles
22. - Visualize
- Limit WIP
- Manage Flow
- Make Process Policies
Explicit
- Implement Feedback
Loops
- Improve Collaboratively,
Evolve Experimentally
- Start with what you do
now
- Agree to pursue
evolutionary change
- Initially, respect current
roles, responsibilities and
job titles
60. Make Process
Policies Explicit
What happened here, really?
Move authority to the information
Trust, transparency & accountability
Make policies explicit
Limit work in process