Webinar --- Agile Development and Lean Transformation, a Practical Guide

When:  Sep 9, 2022 from 02:00 AM to 03:00 AM (UTC)
Associated with  Seattle Section
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Presentation 7:00 p.m.

Adjourn 8:00 p.m.


Contact: Fred Cramer

Please note: Webinar information will be emailed to registered participants the evening before the event.

Agile Development and Lean Transformation, a Practical Guide


Change is only valuable if it is implemented in a way that assures lasting improvement. Also, long, large scope milestone-driven projects inevitably fail to live up to expectations. Agile Development provides a way for large-scale system development to avoid this pitfall. But what of Lean?


Typically, Lean takes an incremental approach to improvement, or Continuous Improvement, to implement change. But what do you do when your organization needs an order of magnitude (or larger) improvement?


Peppered with real-life experiences, this presentation will start by providing a grounding in the fundamentals of both Agile Development and Lean. It will then present how to use Lean to design transformational process improvement. Next, we will explore how Agile Development principles can be applied to closing the gap between current and future state processes, yielding measurable interim, and lasting final, performance improvement. In addition, the impact of this approach on managing change will also be discussed.

Scott Siderman:

For more than twenty years, Scott has been helping his employers and clients transform the performance of their processes and organizations. His approach is simple: Ask provocative questions while forging high-performing teams.


Starting out as a consultant applying Just-in-time/Lean manufacturing philosophies to the banking industry, his career has evolved to include quality, process improvement, process redesign/reengineering, performance measurement, and customer-focused organizational design. Scott’s industry experience includes not only Banking but also Insurance, Government, Criminal Justice, Mail-order Retail, Customer Care, Behavioral Health, High-tech, Utilities, Higher Education and Healthcare. Within these industries, he has facilitated successful process improvement/redesign teams in such diverse processes as Claims, Financial Close, Procurement, Customer Care, Grant and Technical Assistance Oversight, and Hospital Patient Care.


He has also led organizational design teams in Customer Care and Information Technology organizations. To assure the organization’s success, each of these projects included the development and implementation of performance metrics (Key Performance Indicators). Scott has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (Tufts University) and a Master of Science in Industrial Administration (Carnegie-Mellon University). He is a leader and frequent speaker for the American Society for Quality (ASQ).


Scott is currently the Secretary of the ASQ Seattle Section and prior to relocating to Seattle from Boston was a leader of the Boston Chapter Business Process Improvement Committee and recognized as the Boston Chapter’s Quality Engineer of the Year.