Mary Poppendieck

Trainer

Mary Poppendieck

Trainer

Experience

Mary Poppendieck has been in the Information Technology industry for over thirty years. She has managed software development, supply chain management, manufacturing operations, and new product development. She spearheaded the implementation of a Just-in-Time system in a 3M video tape manufacturing plant and led new product development teams, commercializing products ranging from digital controllers to 3M Light Fiber™.

Books by Mary and Tom Poppendieck

Mary and Tom have pioneered the application of Lean Thinking to software development and documented their principles in books: Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit, published in 2003, its sequel, Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash, published in 2006, Leading Lean Software Development: Results are Not the Point in 2009, and The Lean Mindset: Ask the Right Questions in 2013.

The are also authors of Lean Essays blog.

Trainings and workshops with Mary Poppendieck

Working with ProCognita, Mary is conducting Lean Software Development training and Lean Friction Lab workshop.

If you want to organize Mary Poppendieck's training, workshop or presentations for your company, contact us.

Speeches

Agile Warsaw 2016: Mary Poppendieck "Impossible Problems - Necessity is the Mother of Invention"

ABE light 2018: Mary Poppendieck "Four Metaphors of Lean"

AgileByExample 2020: Mary Poppendieck - Resilience is not a Luxury

Meet our team

Tomasz Wykowski

Tomasz Wykowski

International storyteller, first Polish Certified Scrum Trainer. Always searching for new solutions.

Justyna Wykowska

Justyna Wykowska

Expert on feedback and important questions. Can help, when everything else will fail.

Krzysztof Niewiński

Krzysztof Niewiński

Change leader by the beliefs. Enthusiastic and focused on business value.

Bogdan Brześciński

Bogdan Brześciński

Chief Officer of Everything. Specialized in marketing, logistics & impossible things.

Jurgen De Smet

Jurgen De Smet

Licensed Collaboration Superpowers Trainer & Innovation Games Qualified Instructor.

Gojko Adzic

Gojko Adzic

Master of increasing the product ROI. Impact Mapping, SBE and BDD specialist.

Joe Justice

Joe Justice

Founder of Wikispeed supporting international companies in changing their approach to hardware development.

Angela Johnson

Angela Johnson

An experienced trainer and coach of Scrum practitioners combining many approaches in her work.

Arne Ahlander

Arne Ahlander

Agile and Lean expert with experience at management positions in IT and Telecom.

Craig Larman

Craig Larman

Co-creator of LeSS, with multiple years of experience in descaling development in big product groups.

Zuzi Šochová

Zuzi Šochová

Agile coach and trainer and a Certified Scrum Trainer with more than twenty years of experience in the IT industry.

Angel Diaz-Maroto

Angel Diaz-Maroto

Agile Coach focused on Agile Leadership

Lucia Baldelli

Lucia Baldelli

Professional coach with experience in Agile transformations of geographically distributed enterprises.

Evelyn Tian

Evelyn Tian

Agile Coach with Certified Enterprise Coach® (CEC) and Certified Team Coach® (CTC) acreditations.

Jurgen Appelo

Jurgen Appelo

Founder of the Management 3.0 movement, helping to build organizations ready for the future.

Mary Poppendieck

Mary Poppendieck

Pioneer of using Lean in software development. The author of many books and inspirational speaker.

Robin Dymond

Robin Dymond

Trainer and consultant Agile and Lean. Expert of Scrum4Hardware.

Chet Hendrickson

Chet Hendrickson

Father of Extreme Programming and the first signatory to the Agile Manifesto.

Greg Hutchings

Greg Hutchings

Specialist of the Large-Scale Scrum. One of the first Certified LeSS Trainer in the world.