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Foundations of Lean

Lean helps you focus on the flow of value to the customer quickly, sustainably, reliably, and with high quality. Lean is not a packaged solution; rather it uses Lean-Thinking to guide an organization’s transformation towards business agility. It looks at the whole system and across all of the value streams.

This course shows how Lean employs concepts such as eliminating waste, cost of delay, quality, rapid feedback and response, and the role of management. It also satisfies the prerequisite of Lean knowledge for the DALSM exam.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn the foundations of Lean; the attention to structure, time, and education
• Learn the principles of Lean
• Learn the time aspect of Lean
• Conduct a value stream mapping exercise
• Learn what an effective organization’s value stream looks like
• Discuss the role of management and their effect on culture
• Describe how to use plan-do-study-act (PDSA) for continuous improvement

SPEAKER BIO

David Shapiro

David Shapiro is a Senior Director of engineering at Openlink leading multiple software development and DevOps teams.  David has driven DA adoption and transformation at Openlink, as well as other Global Enterprise Trading System Software companies.

David is an innovative hands-on certified Disciplined Agile Coach, Practitioner, and Instructor.  He is an Advisory Council member of the Disciplined Agile Consortium, a PMI member belonging to the NYC and LI chapters, actively working with DA Champions throughout the PMI organization to forward the DA initiative and adoption.  

David is recognized for his unique ability to develop top talent and cultivate high-performance teams that continuously exceed expectations.