In this session, Sunil shares the agile adoption experience that a Six Sigma Black Belt and an agile coach took borrowing concepts from Lean/Six Sigma to help promote and sustain the change that adoption to agile brought to the software development team. Are they opposing concepts or complementary?

1. Agile@GE
Agile Adoption in a Six Sigma Culture
Sunil Kutty
Program Manager
GE Energy
Software Solutions Group
Mumbai
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2. Lean Six Sigma is…
A Measure of Quality
A Process for Continuous Improvement
An Enabler for Culture Change
Six Sigma = Reduce Variation Lean = Reduce Waste

3. Agile and Six Sigma…
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4. A Black Belt’s tool kit for agile transformation
Leadership Support
Systems and Structures
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5. Learning Agile: Training & Coaching
Leadership Support
Systems and Structures
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6. Started CI with Baby Steps…
Several Six Sigma
projects with CI Focus:
Variation and Time
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8. Visual Workplace
Information GE job title/8
Radiators

9. Retrospectives
Enabling incremental improvements:
Facilitated Retrospectives, GE job title/9
Agility assessments & cause maps.

10. Kaizen
• 改 ('kai') KAI means 'change' or 'the action to correct'.
• 善 ('zen') ZEN means 'good'
•Kaizen is small incremental changes made for improving productivity and
minimizing waste.
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11. Metrics
GE job title/11

12. Sustaining Change
Leadership Support
Systems and Structures
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13. Thank you.
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