| Date: | July 28th, 2004 |
| Time: | 6:00 - 8:30 6:00 - 7:00 Networking w/FREE Pizza & soft drinks 7:00 - 7:10 Welcome, Intros, SPIN Business 7:10 - 7:30 20 Minutes of Madness 7:30 - 8:15 Presentation. 8:15 - 8:30 Q & A, Wrap up, Announcements 8:30 Book give away. |
| Location: | Microsoft office at the Concourse http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/info/usaoffices/atlanta.asp |
President, Poppendieck LLC
East Prairie, MN
Income growth of workers in any economic sector is directly related to productivity growth. In the past, the productivity of the technology sector grew not because technical workers were becoming more productive, but because technical capability was growing so fast. Unfortunately for the incomes of software development professionals, this is no longer the case. Future income growth will be related to our ability to increase software development productivity.
How can software development productivity be increased? Through the same approaches used in operations: a focus on customer value, a short, effective supply chain, healthy discipline, and innovation. Mary will discuss techniques that businesses have used for decades to jump-start an increase in productivity, and show how they can be used to increase software development productivity.
Mary Poppendieck
Cutter Consortium Senior Consultant
Mary Poppendieck has been in the Information Technology industry for 25 years. She has managed solutions for companies in several disciplines, including supply chain management, manufacturing systems, and digital media. As a seasoned leader in both operations and new product development, she provides a business perspective to software development problems.
As Information Systems Manager in a video tape manufacturing plant, Poppendieck first encountered the Toyota Production System, which later became known as Lean Production. She implemented one of the first Just-in-Time systems in 3M, resulting in dramatic improvements in the plant's performance.
Poppendieck's team leadership skills are legendary in 3M, where new product development is a core competency. One team commercialized a graphics interface controller three times faster than normal. Another team not only developed an image database system in partnership with a start-up company, but also set a new international standard for image formats.
The investor point of view was not enough; so she joined one of the start-ups to lead its R&D effort. Today Poppendieck is Managing Director of AgileAlliance and is a Senior Cutter Consortium Consultant.
A popular writer and speaker, Poppendieck’s tutorials on managing software development offer a fresh perspective on project management. Her book Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit, was published by Addison Wesley in May, 2003 and won the Software Development Productivity Award in 2004