Unlocking a Knowledge Factory: Combining Lean and Agile

When implementing methodologies, it's essential to establish a concrete benchmark to strive for. 

Managing knowledge work has always been challenging because of its complexity, but we can still devise a gold standard: a "Knowledge Factory." To realize this idea of structured, focused, and stable work, we should deploy Agile and Lean methodologies together. Scrumban, a powerful combination of Scrum and Kanban, is an excellent example, but there is still untapped potential for project managers to explore.

In this talk, Boyan will discuss integrating Lean as a complementary methodology to Agile. He will cover topics such as identifying Sources of Waste, Value Stream Mapping, Just-in-Time production, and more while demonstrating how they can work in tandem with Agile principles. 

He'll support this with software, data, and cloud case studies to illustrate these concepts in action.

About the speaker: 

Boyan Angelov is a data strategist with a decade of experience in various academic and commercial environments such as bioinformatics, clinical trials, HRTech, LegalTech, and management consulting. He is the author of "Elements of Data Strategy" and "Python and R for the Modern Data Scientist". He is also a researcher on XAI and progress studies and regularly speaks at conferences, meetups, and podcasts.