Thursday, October 19, 2023 Virtual Conference

Peter Palmér, LPPDE and Juha Tammi, Lean Association of Finland - Welcome and Instructions

Peter and Juha represent the two organization who organize these virtual online events and will moderate the Virtual Summit.

Colleen Soppelsa, L3Harris Technologies – The Importance of Trust in Continuous Improvement

'The Importance of Trust in Continuous Improvement' is a personal story of an onboarding experience beginning in the Automotive Industry (2003) and the observances following a career transition into Aerospace & Defense over the last 12 years.  Colleen will highlight symptoms of Trust erosion and explain why we are operating in a unique environment requiring new methods taken outside of the traditional Lean toolkit.>>

Colleen Soppelsa is a Lean and Six Sigma Transformation Leader with 25+ years experience across the Automotive (Toyota), Aviation (GEA) and Aerospace & Defense (L3H) Industries. She has a solid career track of executing goals and objectives associated with project engineering development, commodity management and cost planning in early product lifecycle. Colleen is highly skilled at applying Lean and Six Sigma methodologies to reduce risk and improve total cost of ownership by eliminating waste. Committed to creating breakthrough thinking environments based on the "Respect for People" principle.

Jonas Jaconelli, Senior Agile Coach and Change Leader at Aliby – Win or Survive

We live in a complex and ever-changing world. The challenges we face are becoming increasingly interconnected and difficult to solve. In this environment, it is more important than ever to make informed decisions about how we invest our time and resources.

Short-term changes can be helpful in addressing immediate problems. However, they may not address the root cause of the problem or lead to sustainable change. Long-term changes can be more challenging to implement, but they can lead to more lasting results.

In my speech, I will discuss the challenges of making decisions in a complex environment and the factors to consider when choosing between short-term and long-term change. I will also provide an example of my latest long-term change initiative at one of my clients.

My speech will help you to make informed decisions about how to invest your time and colleagues in a long-term change.

Anders Frisk, Businesspassion – 6 Steps You Need to Take in a Lean Agile Transformation

We often experience Lean Agile working methods as a path towards faster development and increased innovation and customer benefit. For the past 25 years, Anders has worked with organization and business development, where this meant leading many companies in their desire to transform in the above area.

What then determines whether we will succeed or not? This presentation will present 6 steps to succeed with a Lean-Agile transformation where you will gain new or strengthened insights into what is required and where your challenges may lie in order tosucceed.

Anders Frisk has many years of experience from training and coaching in many different industries with a focus on helping to develop business and customer benefits. Anders brings experiences from, among others, IHM Business School, H&M & Scania. As a coach, Anders is very fascinated by the complexity of getting people involved in organizational change.

Anders runs the business network Businesspassionwith the goal of helping people become more successful in their personal development and career.

Fredrik Viljesjö, We Are Movement – Learnings from Software DevOps for High-Quality Product Development

In software, the need for fast development iterations has been high and created movements like DevOps, which emphasizes collaboration, automation, flow, and acting on data. What specific patterns can we learn from when expanding these concepts into general R&D and product development? We discuss high quality as a speed driver and automated verification's importance, especially for compliance and security.

Fredrik Viljesjö is one founder of We Are Movement and works as an Advisor, Enterprise Agile Coach, and DevOps/Architecture Coach with a broad and deep skill set. With 15 years of experience in development, coaching, and management, he has worked with multinational companies in Stockholm to guide them through their Lean / Agile journey.

Guiding and training development organizations to deliver value. From overall strategy and portfolio to individual development teams. He knows the whole chain of activities required for DevOps and Agile work, from getting people to collaborate better to implement a CI/CD pipelines.

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By Juha Tammi & Peter Palmér

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