Ramkumar is a Senior Program Manager with Cognizant and has 14+ years of success in leading all phases of diverse technology IT Projects in retail, e-commerce, insurance and pharma market research industries. He has more than 7+ years of experience in leading and executing projects and programs using agile and lean methodologies. He is currently working as Senior Program Manager in Cognizant and has a zeal for agile/lean project and program management and his current endeavor includes leading a large scale distributed agile product development team in delivering a world class product features in Supply Chain domain for large retailer.

Lean Kanban for Non-IT Business Process Automation

Automation has now taken center stages in all facets of enterprises and business is now at the helm of implementing automation to improve quality of service, lower costs and improve productivity of their associates. Financial Planning and Accounting is the first mover where lots of back office work like PO approvals, invoice reconciliation, approval workflows/processes are repetitive and mundane that can be automated through built in rules (with little intelligence as well). I will talk about how the Lean and Kanban principles can help in improving business agility in non-it business process automation projects and deliver value to the clients based on my experience.

• Learn how to apply Lean & Kanban principles to business process automation
• Understand the key challenges in executing business process automation using Kanban
• Learn how the tools and techniques can reduce the cycle time
• Learn how to visualize the work for business process automation projects
• Learn how Kanban governance can help in managing WIP limits for automation projects.