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Agenda
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Wednesday, June 6—Summit Day I

7:00 – 8:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:00 – 8:10 Welcoming Remarks
Management Roundtable
8:10-9:30 KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
Emulating Toyota: Be Careful What You Wish For!
Don G. Reinertsen
, Summit Chairperson and President, Reinertsen & Associates
9:30-10:15 Key Steps for Implementing Lean Methods in Global NPD Teams
Tim Smith, SRAM Corporation
10:15-10:30 Refreshment Break
10:30-11:15 Fixing an Overloaded Development Process, Eric Grismer, Badger Meter
11:15-12:00 Using WIP Controls in R&D
Bernard North, Kennametal
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:00 KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
Lean Software Development / Lean Product Development: A Comparison

Mary Poppendieck, President, Poppendieck LLC
2:00-2:45

Case Study
A Kanban System for Sustaining Engineering on Software Systems
David J. Anderson
& Rick Garber, Corbis

2:45-3:00 Refreshment Break
3:00-4:30

Breakout Discussion Group Meetings

4:30-5:30

Breakout Group Reports

5:30

Day One Concludes

5:30-7:00 Networking Reception

Thursday, June 7—Summit Day II

7:15 – 8:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:00-8:15 Recap of Day One Take-Aways
Don G. Reinertsen,
Summit Chairperson and President, Reinertsen & Associates
8:15-9:30 KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
Exploiting the Power of Decentralized Control

Don G. Reinertsen,
Summit Chairperson and President, Reinertsen & Associates
9:30-10:15 Building and Deploying a Lean Product Development Initiative
Anthony Orzechowski
, Abbott Diagnostics
10:15-10:45 Refreshment Break
10:45-11:30 Key Strategies for Successfully Adopting Lean/Agile Practices in a Process-centric Corporate Culture
Guy Beaver
, Critical Point Group
11:30-12:30 Lunch
12:30-1:15

Lean Methods for Creative Development
Tim Schipper
, Steelcase, Inc.

1:15-2:00

Boeing’s Journey to Lean Product Development
Perry Rea,
Boeing Commercial Airplane

2:00-2:15

Refreshment Break

2:15-3:15

Application Session—
Building an Action Plan

3:15-3:30

Summit Conclusions and
Action Items

Don G. Reinertsen,
Summit Chairperson

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