Thursday, February 1, 2024 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.

Robin Yeman, Space Domain Lead, Inspiring Digital Transformation across industry at the Software Engineering Institute – Applying Agile and DevOps to Large-Scale, Cyber-Physical Systems

Robin recently released his first book: Industrial Devops - Build Better Systems Faster

co-written with av Dr Suzette Johnson, this book shows organizations how to apply the theories and practices of DevOps to complex cyber-physical systems, systems that combine software, hardware, and firmware. Robin will go through how to apply agile and devops to large-scale cyber-physical systems.

Robin Yeman is a results-focused Enterprise Lean Agile leader with the ability to merge extensive technical skills and management capabilities in order to successfully lead technical projects in a fast-paced environment.

Robin has a proven ability to identify and evaluate market needs, build opportunities, and provide solutions leveraging best practices from Lean, Agile, and DevOp. She has managed projects across the full life-cycle driving multi-million dollar revenues for the corporation both domestically and internationally while providing extensive cost savings to customers.

Mirette Kangas, Director of Business Excellence at Elisa – Transformation Superpowers

When the competition is complex, and there is a demand for rapid change, how do we get desired outcomes or impacts fast? Can we speed up development at organizations? How do we practically take innovations into daily business? We need the most essential agile superpowers to lead the change: feedback loops, a culture of experimentation, and a growth mindset. This is one approach to keep the mind optimistic and innovative towards the unknown future!

Mirette has previously spoken about: “It´s an ultramarathon. 10 key lessons learned about lean-agile transformation as a change leader” and this talk will be a bit deeper!

Mirette Kangas is one of Finland's leading experts and pioneers in Lean-Agile business culture, so Mirette holds high credibility. She is well-known as a speaker and workshop facilitator. Her work has inspired dozens of companies across industries to adopt an agile corporate culture, leadership, and experimentation culture.

Mirette works at Elisa as a Director of Business Excellence, focusing on improving business outcomes and fostering a culture of experimentation.

Before that, she worked at KONE as a global Lean and Agile operating model owner. She founded Yle 's (Finnish national media company) Lean-Agile Culture Accelerator and influenced and led the transformation from traditional to Lean-Agile for over ten years. Co-founder of streaming service Yle Areena. Before that, Mirette worked at Nokia and Sanoma Group. An amateur violinist, a musician at heart.

Maarit Laanti, SAFe Fellow and Partner at Wiki Agile – Path to Hardware Agility

Maarit Laanti Ph.D. is a SAFe Fellow, SAFe SPCT, and a pioneer of scaling agile methods. She has been nominated in the LIA100 initiative amongst one of the 100 women in the world who have contributed most to Lean and Agile.

She worked hands-on at Nokia for 20 years, and her Ph.D. from 2013 was based on the 10-year research she did while working for Nokia leading the largest agile transformation at a time in product development including software and hardware. Maarit’s dissertation defines what is scaled agile in research, being the first one in the field.

Maarit has contributed Lean-Agile finance and control to SAFe 3.0 and trained SAFe over 3000 persons. Currently, Maarit is a partner at wikiflow and WikiAgile companies, which support holistic Lean-Agile Enterprise transformation with a five-phased Lean-Agile transformation playbook, five SAFe SPCTs, and JoeDX from Joe Justice.

Specialties: Agile transformations, Agile Portfolio Management, Scaled Agile Framework, Transformation Coaching.

Anand Nicodemus, Global Director, Lean & CI at Fluor Corporation – LPPD and Agile – Similarities and Differences

An interesting discussion is comparing Lean Product and Process Development and Agile. What are the similarities? What are the differences? Annand has researched the topic deeply and will present his view of the topic

Anand Nicodemus, is currently the Global Director for Lean within a Fortune 500 integrated Engineering , Fabrication and Construction Company , tasked with building it worldwide lean capacity and capability; and guiding its application of lean for Transformation . He is also the Lean Sensei of Lean Practitioners Canada a not-for-profit Lean advocacy, coaching and practice organization - the first of its kind in Canada.

Anand is a Professional Engineer from Alberta and a Lean Sensei, with demonstrated success of application of Lean Thinking and Management in over 80 organizations across 12 countries in improving their Strategy and Operational Performance.

As Head of Business Excellence for one of the largest Crown Corporations in the World, Anand set up and operated a Strategy & Continuous Improvement System that spanned 22 Business Units, and generated financial benefits of over a billion in a 5 year period and an Annual Recurring Benefit 20 times the operating budget for Business Excellence

He advocates the idea that transformation is possible when an enterprise operates as a "community", for which he has developed an “execution model”, with a set of powerful enablers from the world of Lean Culture. This is a human-centered approach with a higher probability of success.

Final reflections and remarks

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By Juha Tammi & Peter Palmér

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