Agile Leadership Network Houston

Which of the Seven Wastes is slowing you down the most? Perhaps using the Five Whys root cause analysis will help you determine that; or maybe Value Stream Mapping can help identify all the non-value add steps in your process. Many thanks to Dr. Jerry Julian of the Julian Advisory Group for extending his stay in Houston an extra day to come talk to us about Lean Program Management.

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We also want to congratulate Elizabeth Kinyanjui and Bill Doescher who won copies of Jerry's new book Facilitating Project Performance Improvement.

Lean Program Management: Principles, Practices and Tools for Accelerating Value Delivery

In this session, Dr. Julian will provide a framework and toolset for systematically accelerating delivery at the project, program and portfolio levels. Drawing on over 15 years of experience working with teams to deploy lean principles, participants will have the opportunity to learn how some of the best project-based organizations in the world are using these practices to reduce cycle time, improve quality and develop a high performing learning organization that continuously improves from one phase, iteration and project to the next.

Dr. Jerry Julian is President & CEO of Julian Advisory Group, an operations & technology performance improvement firm founded in 2001. He has helped hundreds of teams in both blue-chip and startup companies alike, including J.P. Morgan Chase, Pfizer, GE Capital, Café Mom, Highline Financial, Gartner, BMW, Sotheby’s, Vanguard, Johnson & Johnson, and many others. Before assuming his current role at Julian Advisory Group over eight years ago, he began his career at Accenture as a software engineer. He then became a Vice President at Rath & Strong, a leading global consultancy in the field of lean operations improvement, where he served as Master Black Belt Coach and engagement lead. He is the author of the book “Facilitating Project Performance Improvement: A Practical Guide to Multi-Level Learning,” published by AMACOM, the publishing arm of the American Management Association. His ongoing research focuses on learning and continuous improvement in project-based organizations with particular emphasis on the application of lean and agile principles. He holds a doctorate in adult and organizational learning from Columbia University, an MBA from the UNC-Chapel Hill, and a Bachelors of Science in Operations Research from Columbia University.

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hosting tonight's meeting.

1390 Enclave Parkway - Houston, Texas - 281-584-1390

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