Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Kanban Training Class - San Francisco Bay Area, CA Sept 12-13, 2011

David J. Anderson’s

Official “Kanban - Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business” Class

Masa K. Maeda (instructor)

This intensive 2-day Kanban training class provides an introduction to Lean, Pull Systems and Kanban and will explain how established industrial engineering theory can apply to software development process.

This class is based on David J. Anderson’s book “Kanban - Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business”. Attendees of the class will receive a copy of the new book.

Participants in the class will learn how to use the simple process of limiting work-in-progress as a driver of change. Kanban is a change management method and a different approach to striking agreements between IT and the business.

You’ll learn how to define the policies that constrain the collaborative game of software development. You’ll learn how to use those policies to manage risk and to reset negotiations and recast them as collaborative problem solving.

Used effectively, Kanban will change you and your organization. If your workplace has been stagnating and you are looking for new ideas to unleash productivity, innovation, collaboration and creativity, take 2 days and come along.

What you will learn

About the presenter

Masa is an internationally recognized figure in the agile and lean communities who has focused most of his career on making organizations successful through the balance between value-to-customer, value-to-enterprise, and quality. He has brought Kanban, Scrum, lean, and agile to organizations of diverse size in three continents. With 25 years of experience, his career path has taken him from Fortune 100 to startups from diverse industries in USA, Japan, Mexico and Panama. Before focusing entirely on Lean and Agile, Masa worked at Apple Inc. and was founding team member at several startup companies in Silicon Valley in the fields of genomics/proteomics, online entertainment and online socialization.

Is this for you?

If you are a software development executive, project manager, development manager, project lead or developer and you would like to learn how Lean, Pull Systems and Kanban can provide a useful perspective to consider the entire value chain beyond the pure software development, this Kanban class is for you!

Location:

San Francisco Bay Area (Belmont - short drive between San Francisco and San José airports), CA USA

Venue:

Hyatt Summerfield Suites Belmont
400 Concourse Way, Belmont CA 94404
Between San Francisco and San Jose airports.
http://www.belmont.summerfieldsuites.hyatt.com