Austin's Lean Software Community
Value Stream Mapping is a starting point for Lean software development efforts, focusing improvement on finding the waste that artificially limits productivity, and pointing the way to improvements in software process, tools, and team organization.
Value Stream Mapping is a focus of much of the first part of Eliyahu Goldratt and Jeff Cox’s book The Goal, and is a pivotal practice in Lean production and continuous improvement.
Andrew Cahoon is the Founder and Managing Director for Clarum Group LLC – a management consulting organization focused on providing Custom Business Process Improvement services with a team of several highly skilled and experienced members. He has 30 years experience in development and management of high tech solutions (supercomputers, microprocessors, hardware, firmware, software) with a strong emphasis on Continuous Improvement. His forrmal education includes a BS Computer Engineering (Univ. of Illinois), an Executive MBA (Univ. of Oregon), and Lean training (Toyota, Porsche, McKinsey). In the past year, he has focused on growing his expertise in Agile and Change Management methods. In his spare time, he enjoys family activities and doing volunteer work with robotics organizations in the Austin area. He has been married for 29 years and has two children