Saturday, November 14, 2009

Announcing Lean Software & Systems 2010

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.

If you are speaking or attending the conference you might like to tell people about it by adding these buttons to your web site design. If you want to use these assets on your site just paste the HTML code provided straight into your web source code or content management system.

Source: http://atlanta2010.leanssc.org/

Source: http://atlanta2010.leanssc.org/

Conference Chair: David J. Anderson

Track Chairs: Alan Shalloway, Joshua Kerievsky, James Sutton, Eric Willeke, Chris Shinkle, Richard Turner & David Anderson

Event Planner: Kelly Wilson
Organizing Sponsor: Software Engineering Professionals (SEP)
Event Team: Dennis Stevens, Janice Linden-Reed, Aaron Sanders, Eric Landes

Sponsorship opportunities email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

New Ltd WIP Society Supporter Button

This week at QCon I am launching a new Limited WIP Society supporter T-shirt design. The new design is also available as a button that you can place on your web site to show support for the adoption of Kanban.

If you want to use these assets on your site just paste the HTML code provided straight into your web source code or content management system.  

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Thursday, November 12, 2009

April 14-16 Kanban Coaching Workshop Southern California

The second ever US based Kanban Coaching Workshop will take place in Orange County, California, April 14-16, 2010. This event is limited to 8 participants in order to facilitate learning and knowledge transfer.

The 2010 price for this workshop is $3000!

As of December 10th there are 4 places remaining, with several folks tentative. Don’t miss out! Read what others are saying about this workshop.

Rachel Davies, Kanban Coaching Insights

David Draper, Kanban Coaching Workshop, Why Kanban, Lean Decision Making

This 3 day workshop is for experienced Agile or project management coaches, existing Kanban practitioners, and those who have previously taken David J. Anderson’s Kanban class. This workshop is intended to be an interactive collaborative session designed to facilitate knowledge sharing and learning. The class will be divided into approximately 10 sections with a slide presentation or tutorial from David to introduce each section. The focus will be on shared experience and discussion of the hard questions that clients and team members ask coaches during the introduction of Lean ideas through the use of a kanban pull system. The goal is to enable participants to go back into the field and successfully coach Agile/Lean transitions using the Kanban approach. Each participant will received a personal recommendation from David J. Anderson as a result of participating in the class.

Kanban offers agile and project management coaches another tool in their toolbox. Kanban is proving to be a facilitator of evolutionary change with low resistance and an enabler of accelerated high levels of organizational maturity.

For more details download the PDF flyer.

Location: CONFIRMED as Doubletree Guest Suites Doheny Beach, Dana Point, California. Pre-pay to get the $149 per night rate How to get there: Fly to Orange County John Wayne Airport (SNA) and take a cab or fly to Los Angeles International (LAX) and rent a car.

Sunday, November 01, 2009

Still Time For Only Kanban Class in USA 2009

We’ve had a robust registration for the Kanban class I am giving in San Francisco on November 16th and 17th. We’ve got quite a few international attendees. Perhaps they are coming into town for QCon later that week? As well as a handful of locals. We still have room for about 6 more. So don’t miss out. This is the only Kanban class I am teaching in the United States this year.

Register now for 2 Day Kanban Class in San Francisco, Nov 16-17! Each attendee will receive an exclusive new Limited WIP Society T-shirt or Tank Top. Be the first to wear one of the new designs and colors. Or choose the popular “Yes We Kanban” shirt from Agile 2009 as modeled here by Bernd Schiffer.

QCon Kanban Track Nov 18

I’ll be chairing the Kanban Track at QCon in San Francisco on November 18th. We’ve got a good list of speakers lined up including Jeff Patton (reprising his presentation from the UK Lean 2009 conference) and Henrik Kniberg with his Kanban vs Scrum - A Practical Guide (from The Future of Agile, Stockholm) and Chris Shinkle and David Laribee (reprising their presentations from the Lean & Kanban 2009 in Miami). I’ll be reprising my Agile 2009 presentation New Approaches to Managing Risk which features some more advanced ideas that have emerged from the Kanban community. This line up should serve to provide a good broad sweep of what Kanban is, how to use it and what its benefits are.

There is still time to register!