agile and lean six sigma
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In this session, Sunil shares the agile adoption experience that a Six Sigma Black Belt and an agile coach took borrowing concepts from Lean/Six Sigma to help promote and sustain the change that adoption to agile brought to the software development team. Are they opposing concepts or complementary?TRANSCRIPT
1© 2012, General Electric Company
Agile@GE
Agile Adoption in a Six Sigma Culture
Sunil Kutty
Program ManagerGE Energy Software Solutions GroupMumbai
A Measure of Quality
A Process for Continuous Improvement
An Enabler for Culture Change
Lean Six Sigma is…
Six Sigma = Reduce VariationLean = Reduce Waste
Agile and Six Sigma…
VALUE
TIME
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4Thursday, May 27, 2010
© 2010, General Electric Company
A Black Belt’s tool kit for agile transformation
Agile adoptio
n
CI and beyond
Visual Workplace
Retrospectives
Kaizen
Metrics
Coaching
Leadership Support
Systems and Structures
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5Thursday, May 27, 2010
© 2010, General Electric Company
Learning Agile: Training & Coaching
Agile adoptio
n
CI and beyond
Visual Workplace
Retrospectives
Kaizen
Metrics
Coaching
Leadership Support
Systems and Structures
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6Thursday, May 27, 2010
© 2010, General Electric Company
Started CI with Baby Steps…
Agile adoptio
n
CI and beyond
Visual Workplace
Retrospectives
Kaizen
Metrics
Coaching
Several Six Sigma projects with CI Focus: Variation and Time
GE job title/7
Continuous Integration and Beyond
Compile
Unit Testing
Auto Deploy
Validation Testin
g
Analyze
User Stories
ShippableProduct
Continuous Builds
Nightly Build
Unit Testing
Validation Tests
Static Analysis
Auto Deploy
Targeted Notification
Reporting
Developer Productivity: Defect Prevention
Build Acceleration
0.00
2.00
4.00
6.00
8.00
10.00
Done = Releasable
Automate Everything
Minimize Cycle Time
Bring Pain Forward
Improve Continuously
Stop the Line
CD Principles
GE job title/8
Visual Workplace
Information Radiators
Agile adoptio
n
CI and beyond
Visual Workplace
Retrospectives
Kaizen
Metrics
Coaching
GE job title/9
Retrospectives
Enabling incremental improvements: Facilitated Retrospectives, Agility assessments & cause maps.
Agile adoptio
n
CI and beyond
Visual Workplace
Retrospectives
Kaizen
Metrics
Coaching
10 /GE /
April 12, 2023
• 改 ('kai') KAI means 'change' or 'the action to correct'. • 善 ('zen') ZEN means 'good'•Kaizen is small incremental changes made for improving productivity and minimizing waste.
Agile adoptio
n
CI and beyond
Visual Workplace
Retrospectives
Kaizen
Metrics
Coaching
Kaizen
GE job title/11
Agile adoptio
n
CI and beyond
Visual Workplace
Retrospectives
Kaizen
Metrics
Coaching
Metrics
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12Thursday, May 27, 2010
© 2010, General Electric Company
Sustaining Change
Agile adoptio
n
CI and beyond
Visual Workplace
Retrospectives
Kaizen
Metrics
Coaching
Leadership Support
Systems and Structures
13 /GE /
April 12, 2023
Thank you.