Blog
: March 2010
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Last day for $995 Rate at #lssc10
March 31st is the last day to get the $995 rate for the Lean Software and Systems Conference. The hotel room block is only guaranteed through the same time. Sign up now to get the $995 rate and the $149/night hotel rate. From April 1st the conference will cost you $1250 and the hotel room rates at are the hotel’s discretion.
Lean Software and Systems is _the_ conference for the latest advanced material in the use of Lean and Kanban Systems in software and systems application. If you want to be at the leading edge of the next wave of software engineering and management practice, come on down to Atlanta and join the community.
Remember to book an extra night and come down a day earlier to attend our Technical Advisory Board meeting to discuss certification. See you all there! 
Posted by David on 03/30 at 01:12 PM
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Thursday, March 18, 2010
Intern Opportunities Summer 2010
I’m looking for two college interns for David J. Anderson & Associates this summer.
The first position is to help with some software engineering process research and would specifically suit a masters or Ph.D level student in software engineering. Specifically I want the intern to mine available academic/industry databases with the intent of showing a correlation between defect rates (and failure load) and lead time through initial development. I will provide introductions to sources of this data. The outcome should be one or more academic papers that may become fundamental reference material for Lean software development and software engineering in general.
The second position is a content management / technical writing / information systems project to port my legacy uidesign.net web site to a modern content management system. It is currently raw html created in Dreamweaver version 2.0. The follow up work will involve working with Janice Linden-Reed (kanban101.com) to select the best material from the site and edit it into a book to be published in fall or winter.
Ideally, I’d like the intern to locate on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State for the summer close to my home near Port Angeles, Washington. However, remote working may be possible.
If you are interested in either position or know someone who might be, please drop me an email.
Posted by David on 03/18 at 01:02 PM
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
ASQ Seattle Kanban and High Maturity
I’m presenting my SEPG North America 2009 tutorial on Kanban and the accelerated emergence of high maturity behavior (aka CMMI ML4 & ML5) at the American Society for Quality Seattle Chapter this Thursday evening. Registration with dinner costs $25.
If you are in the Seattle area, this may be the only opportunity to see me give a talk this year. I hope to see some blog readers there!
This event is significant for me as it’s the first time I’ve been back to the ASQ Seattle since I presented in October 2004 - the night I met Dragos Dumitriu from Microsoft - a meeting that led directly to the development of the Kanban approach and the entire movement around limiting WIP, visualizing workflow and making process policies explicit.
I wonder what will happen this time?
Posted by David on 03/16 at 07:19 PM
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#lssc10 Technical Advisory Board Meeting Apr 20
The Lean Software & System Consortium, Technical Advisory Board meeting, on April 20th is open to Lean Software & System Conference attendees. It’s free of charge. It will take place in the JW Marriott Hotel (Buckhead) Atlanta. We are providing catering for about 45 walk-in attendees. If you are passionate about adoption of Lean and higher professional standards for our industry and you would like to attend our Technical Advisory Board as a guest, then all you have to do is show up a day earlier for the conference and register, collect your badge and ask for directions to the Technical Advisory Board meeting. Hope to see you there!
Posted by David on 03/16 at 10:02 AM
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Monday, March 15, 2010
Forthcoming Kanban Classes in Europe
I will be giving two 2-Day Kanban classes in April.
April 1st-2nd, The first is in Zeist, Netherlands with Olav Maassen as co-trainer
Register Now!
April 26th-27th, The second class is in Hamburg, Germany with Arne Roock
Register Now!
Details of the class curriculum are here!
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