There are at least 5 open Kanban Coaching Workshops being planned in the first half of 2010 on 4 continents. This is your chance to upgrade your agile or project management coaching skills and add Kanban to your portfolio of tools that you can use to enable clients to achieve better business agility and improved project performance.

Cape Town, South Africa, February 5-7
Miami, Florida, February 22-24
Sao Paulo, Brazil, March 8-10 (to be confirmed)
Stockholm, Sweden, March 29-31 (not open for registration)
Orange County, California, April 14-16

The first Lean Software & Systems Conference will be held in Atlanta, Georgia, USA between April 21st and 23rd 2010.

Registration and the Call for Papers is now open at atlanta2010.leanssc.org

The first 50 registrants enjoy a super early discount rate of $800 plus entry to the exclusive speaker luncheon and a special limited edition Ltd WIP Society t-shirt, sponsored by David J. Anderson & Associates.

The Call for papers closes on December 14th.

Use the Twitter search tag #lssc10 to filter tweets about the event. Follow @lssc10 on Twitter for news from the organizing team.

This presentation from the Software Engineering Institute's SEPG 2009 conference in San Jose was voted one of the top 10 best at the event. In it I synthesize experience from team with Kanban and the CMMI model. I make the observation that some teams using Kanban to drive change towards improved agility have also exhibited accelerated achievement of model level 4 behaviors.

[Download the slides 7MB PDF]

I'm going to be touring Europe over the next 3 months giving a series of Kanban classes. These 2 day classes will give you the knowledge to understand what Kanban is all about, why it's important and how it might help your organization. You may be surprised to learn that it is a lot more than just puting a few story cards on a board. Kanban is about enabling evolutionary change with minimal resistance. It's about learning how to set and change policies that constrain performance and hold back organizational effectiveness. It's about learning how to empower people without loss of control - to make self-organization an organizational discipline and effective capability. It's about learning how to make objective decisions that optimize business outcomes.

You can read more about the class here.

I'll be in...

Stockholm September 24-25 (Crisp)

London October 1-2 (Skillsmatter)

Frankfurt October 5-6 (IT-Agile)

Brussels November 23-24 (ACA IT)

Utrecht November 26-27 (ACA IT)

I've uploaded a PDF of my slides for Agile 2009.

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Here is the original session submission...

I'm currently planning two Kanban Coaching Workshops.

[Cancelled!] Port Angeles, Washington, September 1st - 3rd. Details... with Special Guest Bill Dettmer
[Confirmed!]London, UK, October 16th - 18th. Venue and pricing to be announced.

The workshop will be a full 3 days. Minimum participants 3. Maximum 8.

There are some prerequisites for the class. Participants must be knowledgeable about Kanban and actively practising it in their workplace - this means actively operating a WIP limited pull system, not just a card wall. Or they must be established, recognized Agile coaches with some knowledge of Kanban gained through reading. Or participants must have previously attended one of my regular Kanban classes.

I've been making some changes at AgileManagement.Net to make it easier for readers to find information and follow new posts. I've created separate blog pages with separate RSS feeds for Lean, specifically Kanban, and Agile+CMMI.

For now the existing Agile Management blog will continue to aggregate all the content. Later I will reduce it to Management topics only. However, I will maintain the existing RSS feed for both the home page and the Agile Management blog. The RSS feed will continue to aggregate everything that is posted to this site. The new RSS feeds should enable aggregators to be more focused. Kanban sites can pull the Channel Kanban RSS feed while CMMI sites can pull the Channel CMMI RSS feed.

In a similar vein to the Lean & Kanban 2009 conference I am thinking of pulling together an Agile & CMMI event. I really feel that a small focused event is needed to kickstart the Agile CMMI community and energize potential adopters.

After some initial market research via my Agile Management Yahoo! group and Hillel Glazer's Agile CMMI LinkedIn group and Twitter, it looks like we are targeting early December or mid-January somewhere in Florida.

Please leave comments indicating which dates you would prefer, which location (a) Tampa, (b) Orlando, (c) Miami, and please recommend anyone you feel should be an invited speaker at such an event. Would you like 1.5 days or 2.5 days and how much of that time should be dedicated to open space?