Thursday, October 17, 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.

Mikael Broomé, Enterprise Coach, Trainer, Speaker. SPCT Candidate at Think Flow – What happens to the Manager in Agile?

Introducing agile ways in product development, has a fundamental impact on leadership.

New roles, such as Scrum Masters and Product Owners, may be introduced close to the agile teams to lead them in working with the right things in the most efficient way.

➢ Do you have managerial responsibilities in an such an agile context, or are you supporting those who have?
➢ Do you struggle in finding ways how a manager can provide most value in the context of agile with its other leadership roles being in place?

In this session, Mikael Broomé will share his extensive experience from coaching and training managers in the transition to agile and address questions such as:

• In what way does the role of a manager change?
• what are the responsibilities of manager in agile?
• what are some proven success patterns for the manager?
• what are some key leadership skills?

Tip! Various resources for the People Manager are found here:
https://thinkflow.se/peoplemanager/

Mikael Broomé is a seasoned expert in scaling lean and agile practices, he has a proven track record of delivering tangible business results across various industries. He has managed staff as a functional manager and acted in multiple operational roles in agile contexts.

Mikael frequently shares his experience with the community in pod casts and blogs.

He is the author of "The role of People Manager in SAFe" officially contributed to SAFe.

Lonnie Wilson, Principal Consultant, Owner at Quality Consultants – Learning Model Maturity Cycle

Lonnie Wilsons specialties are: Evaluation, design of change and training in Lean Manufacturing (the Toyota Production System) and cultural analysis including defining and measuring cultures, cultural problem solving and cultural change.

Lonnie is an expert in problem solving using Kepner-Tregoe, Statistical Problem Solving and Facilitated group problem solving. He is a Master Black Belt and 6 Sigma Trainer

Suzette Johnson, NG Fellow, Lean-Agile at Northrop Grumman Corporation, Space Sector – Digital twins to improve agility and data-driven decision making

In a time where digital transformation dictates market leadership, Industrial DevOps leverages Digital Twins to improve the design, development, and release of capabilities. Digital Twins coupled with machine learning provide real-time data and advanced analytics to improve decision-making, streamline operations, and create simulation environments to test changes before releasing to a physical instance.

Digital twins stand at the forefront of innovation, offering executive leaders with a unique opportunity to redefine the efficiency, resilience, and competitiveness of their organizations. This presentation begins by defining the concept of digital twins and explaining when and why they are used. Use cases will demonstrate how digital twins are used from design to manufacturing to enable agility, improve efficiencies, and speed value delivery. Participants receive an introduction to the power of digital twins to improve data driven decisions and recommendations for getting started.

Dr. Suzette Johnson works for Northrop Grumman Corporation. As an NG Fellow for Lean Agile and Digital integration, she works for Space Systems fostering operational and program excellence to achieve mission and business outcomes. Her experience with Lean Agile began over twenty years ago with experience across IT systems and software and systems engineering for cyber-physical systems.

She has led the adoption of Lean Agile across the enterprise and has supported over 100 internal projects and government programs on the Lean Agile journey. She is a Scaled Agile Fellow and SPCT and holds several certifications including Certified Enterprise Coach, PMP, and PMI-ACP. She recently completed MIT’s Digital Transformation certificate program and has received a Doctorate of Management Technology at the University of Maryland with a dissertation focused on investigating the Impact of leadership styles on software project outcomes in traditional and agile environments.

Suzette Johnson, with Robin Yeman, has co-authored multiple papers on Industrial DevOps through IT Revolution and has recently published a book, Industrial DevOps: Build Better Systems Faster, which outlines how to expand Lean, Agile, DevOps, and Digital outside of software and into cyber-physical systems.

Steve Zielinski, Vice President of Systems and Software Engineering at Future
Cardia – Improving Innovation Flow with Large Language Models – Part 2

Large Language Models offer the opportunity to improve product development flow throughout the new product development lifecycle. This presentation will explore how LLMs can improve the workflow from Product Manager to Test Engineer. Our product example will be drawn from the medical device space and we will also explore integrating Model-based Systems Engineering (MBSE) tools into the workflow. This presentation continues where the last ended adding the learnings from the LPPDE NA 2024 Conference in Milwaukee.

Steve Zielinski is currently Vice President of Systems and Software Engineering at Future Cardia. He was previously Vice President of Development for Bioelectronic Therapies at Orchestra Biomed and has held positions in systems and software engineering at Cirtec, Boston Scientific, and Medtronic. In each of these companies he was instrumental in introducing Agile new product development methodologies. He is the author of The Great Convergence: Merging Lean, Agile, and Knowledge-based New Product Development.

Final reflections and remarks

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By Juha Tammi & Peter Palmér

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