Jurgen Appelo, Author of the book Management 3.0: Leading Agile Developers

Jurgen Appelo is a writer, speaker, trainer, entrepreneur, illustrator, developer, manager, blogger, reader, dreamer, leader, and freethinker. Since 2008 Jurgen writes a popular blog at www.noop.nl, which deals with development management, software engineering, business improvement, personal development, and complexity theory.

He is the author of the book Management 3.0: Leading Agile Developers, Developing Agile Leaders, which describes the role of the manager in agile organizations. He is also a speaker, being regularly invited to talk at business seminars and conferences around the world.

Presentation: "Complexity vs. Lean: The Big Showdown"

Track: Lean and Kanban: Learning Through Systems Thinking

Time: Thursday 15:35 - 16:35

Location: Elizabeth Windsor, Fifth Floor

Abstract:

Agile software development is (in part) based on the idea that software teams are complex adaptive systems. And Lean software development is (in part) based on systems thinking. Many Agile and Lean experts have borrowed terms from complexity theory (like "self organization" and "emergence"). But what is the difference between complexity theory and systems thinking? And how does complexity thinking compare to Lean software development? Are they different, or aligned? Can we use one to better understand the other?