After revolutionizing the automobile industry, Lean principles have been applied to different knowledge areas, such as software development. However, many people haven’t been introduced to the concepts that made Lean successful. In this session the concepts behind Lean Software Development will be explained. During the session participants will work in a small Lego production line, experiencing the problems and applying Lean practices to overcome them. The participants, divided in 4 teams, will learn about: systems thinking, push vs. pull systems and waste.

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Maarten Metz is a software developer at Logica. He has got 10 years of IT-experience in bit-, byte-, procedural- and object oriented environments. His interests include software design, software construction, software quality, software testing, the psychology of software engineering and everything else that makes an app work.