Topic:

Dr. David F. Rico will give a presentation on "Lean and Agile Project Management: For Large-Scale Programs and Projects," which is a new model for managing high-risk, time-sensitive R&D-oriented new product development (NPD) projects with demanding customers and fast-changing market conditions.  Dr. Rico will establish the context, provide a definition, and describe the value-system for lean and agile project management.  He’ll provide a brief survey of popular lean and agile project management approaches, describe a step-by-step methodology, and illustrate the mechanisms for scaling the lean and agile project management model up to large-scale, distributed projects.  Dr. Rico will illustrate basic, burnup/burndown, cost estimating, business value, earned value management, and advanced metrics for agile methods including real options (as well as some intriguing, high-profile lean and agile project management case studies).  Late-breaking developments in the use of Lean/Kanban concepts for scaling agile methods and enterprise-level transformation will be discussed. This briefing has been warmly received and set attendance records for multiple Baltimore-Washington, DC-area PMI chapters and it was presented at the European conference on lean and agile systems development.

About the Speaker:

Dr. Rico is a principal systems engineer with Boeing, where he helps oversee a portfolio of large, multi-billion dollar government computer system programs.  He has been a technical leader in support of NASA, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, and U.S. Army for over 25 years.  He has led numerous projects based on Cloud Computing, Lean Thinking, Agile Methods, SOA, Web Services, Six Sigma, FOSS, ISO 9001, CMMI, Baldrige, TQM, Enterprise Architecture, DoDAF, and DoD 5000.  He specializes in IT investment analysis, IT portfolio valuation, and IT enabled change.  He has been an international keynote speaker, presented at leading industry conferences, written six textbooks, published numerous articles, and is a reviewer for multiple systems engineering journals.  He is a Certified PMP, Certified Scrum Master, and teaches at three Washington, DC-area universities.  He has been in the field of information systems since 1983.