I have been working as a software consultant for more than 11 years. Because of that I am an eager supporter of lean principles and agile methods.
Here is the abstract of my paper and also my seminar in about a week.
“Configuration management, as a discipline for supporting software development, has been around for half a century and has evolved into standard practice within traditional software development processes. One of the key purposes of configuration management is to control changes made to the software product.Agile development methods are becoming increasingly popular and claim to embrace change. These methods put emphasis on responsiveness to change rather than controlling change. How can these contradicting methodologies co-exist in the one and same project? This paper investigates the integration of configuration management and agile methods by introducing the concept of Lean Configuration Management, and shows how this can support an increased return on investment of the software project.
While traditional configuration management evolves around controlling changes of a forecasted plan, lean configuration management is about handling changes in an adaptive way as well as supporting the values of agile development and lean principles.”