Thursday, December 10, 2009

New Site for Kanban Beginners

Janice Linden-Reed has launched a new web site to fill what she sees is a gap in the market. Kanban101.com will provide the beginners guide - just the basics and plain language, no frills explanations of all the jargon, terms and mechanisms in Kanban applied to software development and related IT activities. Add it to your blog roll! Link it and boost its Google ranking! Technorati tag: Agile, Lean, Kanban, Software+Engineering, Project+Management

Tuesday, December 08, 2009

2010 Kanban Coaching Workshops

In February, March and April I’ll be repeating my highly successful Kanban Coaching Workshop from London this October. These coaching workshops are designed for experienced agile, project management or process coaches and consultants who are looking to add Kanban skills to their toolbox of offerings. This intensive 3 day collaborative workshop is designed to enable participants to go out in the field and successful implement Kanban and Lean with their teams and client firms. Attendees will receive a recommendation from me that they can use with clients and will be listed on my (yet to be published) “trusted Kanban coach” web page.

You can’t learn everything about Kanban in 3 days but those attended in London learned lots of ideas and gained the benefit of lots of experience that will enable them to make significant and valuable progress with clients.

Read what Rachel Davies had to say after attending the London workshop.

In February I’ll be facilitating two workshops. The first in Cape Town, South Africa with Scrum Sense, Feb 5-7, and the other at the Conrad Hotel in Miami, Florida February 22-24.

In March, I’ll be giving my only European coaching workshop in the first half of 2010 in Stockholm with Crisp. Check out crisp.se for details. Email me if interested in attending meanwhile. I also hope to announce a similar coaching workshop in Brazil, most likely Sao Paulo, March 8-10. Email if interested in attending.

In April, I’ll be facilitating another north american workshop in Orange County, California, April 14-16. [venue to be announced soon]

Attendance at my own events in the United States is strictly limited to 8 participants to maximize the quality of the discussion and learning opportunity. So far we have 4 confirmed attendees in Miami, 4 others tentative but uncommitted. So there are 4 places open. Please book soon if want to attend this event. The Orange County workshop has some more possibilities with 3 confirmed attendees and 3 others currently tentative. Please email if you are interested but not ready to sign up immediately.

In addition to these 5 open workshops, I am also holding a closed private client workshop in Seattle in January 2010. If you’d like a closed Kanban coaching workshop at your firm, please get in touch via email. Technorati tag: David+Anderson, Agile+Management, Agile, Lean, Kanban, Project+Management, Software+Engineering, Process+Improvement, Change+Management

Forthcoming Kanban Classes

I’m teaching a few Kanban classes over the next two months in Europe and South Africa.

[December]
The first of the 2 day classes in Stockholm with Crisp next week

[January]
Followed by a class in Krakow, Poland and another in Paris, France with Octo

[February]
I’m then heading down to South Africa from Paris in early February for a class with Scrum Sense in Cape Town.

[May]
Week of May 3rd class in Israel to be announced soon. Email for more details.

These 2 day events are aimed at Kanban beginners and team members from companies
trying to adopt Kanban or thinking about alternatives to existing agile or
traditional approaches to change and improvement. Technorati tag: David+Anderson, Agile+Management, Agile, Lean, Kanban, Project+Management, Software+Engineering, Process+Improvement, Change+Management