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Bob Payne

LitheSpeed

Bob Payne is the VP of enterprise consulting services and a leading proponent of lean/agile methodologies and agile engineering practices. Bob has more than twenty-five years of organizational transformation, project management, software development, engineering, and business experience. A principal coach and consultant at Fortune 100 organizations, he has mentored teams from 5–200+. Bob leads by example, mentoring and training teams to create change agents within organizations. Adept at blending his experience, lean, Scrum, eXtreme Programming, and lean software development, Bob is passionate about delivering practical solutions. As host of the AgileToolkit Podcast he has produced more than 160 podcasts, recording a variety of industry leaders and agile practitioners.

Speaker Presentations
Thursday, November 14, 2013 - 3:45pm
Personal Excellence
The Personal A3 Approach for Developing People

Organizations invest high levels of effort setting up elaborate employee performance tracking systems. In fact, these costly and onerous processes may even drive the wrong behaviors if inappropriate metrics are selected or employees learn to game the system. However, a simpler and more effective approach to personnel development is right in front of us. Bob Payne describes the Lean A3 problem solving and communication tool that can be used to improve processes and create a learning culture.