Sunday, July 11, 2010

Kanban Coaching Workshop Philadelphia September 13-15

These intensive 3 day workshops are intended to transfer the knowledge and skills to existing Agile, process and project management coaches consultants, to lead Lean transformations using kanban systems. The 2010 inclusive price for this workshop is $3000!

This workshop is for experienced Agile or project management coaches, existing Kanban practitioners with 1 year of experience, and those who have previously taken David J. Anderson’s Kanban class and are actively using Kanban at work. This workshop is intended to be an interactive collaborative session designed to facilitate knowledge sharing and learning. The workshop will open with a round table of introductions and shared Kanban experience. Each participant will be asked for a list of questions they’d like answered over the 3 day session and from this a topic backlog will be built. David will augment this backlog with essential topics and foundational material. The agenda for the remaining time will then be set to insure the fullest of coverage and the maximum value for all participants. 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. Every workshop is different because of the unique experiences of each participant and their specific focus and desired outcomes. 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 transformation and coaching 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: Hilton Philadelphia City Avenue, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Friday, May 14, 2010

Kanban Coaching Workshop Chicago May 17-19

My third US based open Kanban Coaching Workshop will take place in downtown Chicago, May 17-19, 2010. This event is limited to 8 participants in order to best facilitate learning and knowledge transfer.

These intensive 3 day workshops are intended to transfer the knowledge and skills to existing Agile, process and project management coaches consultants, to lead Lean transformations using kanban systems. The 2010 inclusive price for this workshop is $3000!

This workshop is for experienced Agile or project management coaches, existing Kanban practitioners with 1 year of experience, and those who have previously taken David J. Anderson’s Kanban class and are actively using Kanban at work. This workshop is intended to be an interactive collaborative session designed to facilitate knowledge sharing and learning. The workshop will open with a round table of introductions and shared Kanban experience. Each participant will be asked for a list of questions they’d like answered over the 3 day session and from this a topic backlog will be built. David will augment this backlog with essential topics and foundational material. The agenda for the remaining time will then be set to insure the fullest of coverage and the maximum value for all participants. 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. Every workshop is different because of the unique experiences of each participant and their specific focus and desired outcomes. 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 transformation and coaching 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: The Wit Hotel, Downtown Chicago
How to get there: Directions via the hotel web site. For those visiting from out of town, fly to either Chicago O’Hare (ORD) or Chicago Midway (MDW) and follow the hotel directions to the venue.

Kanban Coaching Workshop London June 24-26

My second ever UK based open Kanban Coaching Workshop will take place in London, June 24-26, 2010. This event is limited to 12 participants in order to best facilitate learning and knowledge transfer.

These intensive 3 day workshops are intended to transfer the knowledge and skills to existing Agile, process and project management coaches and consultants. The focus is on advanced kanban systems design, systems thinking and leading a change management initiative. In the latest iteration of this workshop we work through the 2-day class teaching material and design a kanban system and change management program for a real situation. We discuss in detail the challenges and issues. Some attendees will be capable of delivering a 2-day class for their clients as an outcome. Others will be able to lead a change initiative and kanban system design within a client organization.

This workshop is for experienced Agile or project management coaches, existing Kanban practitioners with 1 year of experience, and those who have previously taken David J. Anderson’s Kanban class and are actively using Kanban at work. This workshop is intended to be an interactive collaborative session designed to facilitate knowledge sharing and learning. The workshop will open with a round table of introductions and shared Kanban experience. Each participant will be asked for a list of questions they’d like answered over the 3 day session and from this a topic backlog will be built. David will augment this backlog with essential topics and foundational material. The agenda for the remaining time will then be set to insure the fullest of coverage and the maximum value for all participants. 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. Every workshop is different because of the unique experiences of each participant and their specific focus and desired outcomes. 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 transformation and coaching 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: Being negotiated. [Will be in central London]
How to get there: Details to be announced.

Saturday, April 10, 2010

Forthcoming Kanban Classes in Europe

I have two 2-day Kanban classes planned in Europe in the 2nd quarter of the year.

The first is in Hamburg on 26th and 27th of April with IT-Agile.

The second will be in Stockholm with Crisp on May 31st - June 1st

All attendees will receive a free copy of my new book, Kanban - sucessful evolutionary change for your technology business and a Ltd WIP Society t-shirt.

The 2-day class is intended for practitioners in the field looking to implement Kanban. The curriculum is based on the text of the book and more or less follows both the flow of the manuscript and covers the material through a series of presentations followed by breakout group exercises focused on a real world situation. Many previous attendees have left the class ready to implement Kanban in their office with their team or organization.

Saturday, February 20, 2010

Lean Software & Systems Conference Program Announced

The Lean Software & Systems Conference program has been announced. Each of the 3 days is packed with great content describing how Lean is being adopted and leveraged to generate real business benefits. As with the Miami conference in 2009, the focus is on practitioners telling real stories from the field describing why, what and how changes were implemented along with the tangible business benefits. This is by far the best ever conference focused solely on Lean (including kanban systems) applied to the field of software development, IT and systems engineering.

The program is so packed with quality it is impossible to single people out. Some folks you’ll have heard of… Donald Reinertsen, Mary Poppendieck, Jim Shore, Arlo Belshee, Karl Scotland, Alan Shalloway, Joshua Kerievsky, David Laribee, Simon Baker and Gus Power, and Richard Turner. There are four Gordon Pask Award winners on that list alone! And some folks you might not have heard of but really need to check out because their stuff is amazing… Robert Charette, Richard Hensley, Bo Oppenheim, Benjamin Mitchell, Christoph Louvion, Ryan Martens and Yuval Yevet!

The Lean Software & Systems Conference program has been announced. Each of the 3 days is packed with great content describing how Lean is being adopted and leveraged to generate real business benefits. As with the Miami conference in 2009, the focus is on practitioners telling real stories from the field describing why, what and how changes were implemented along with the tangible business benefits. This is by far the best ever conference focused solely on Lean (including kanban systems) applied to the field of software development, IT and systems engineering.

The program is so packed with quality it is impossible to single people out. Some folks you’ll have heard of… Donald Reinertsen, Mary Poppendieck, Jim Shore, Arlo Belshee, Karl Scotland, Alan Shalloway, Joshua Kerievsky, David Laribee, Simon Baker and Gus Power, and Richard Turner. There are four Gordon Pask Award winners on that list alone! And some folks you might not have heard of but really need to check out because their stuff is amazing… Robert Charette, Richard Hensley, Bo Oppenheim, Benjamin Mitchell, Christoph Louvion, Ryan Martens and Yuval Yevet!

Many of the presentations are new and have not been presented at previous conferences and many of the speakers will not be appearing at other agile community events in North America in 2010. If you believe that Lean (and Kanban) are the way forward for your organization then you simply have to register and come down to Atlanta in April. You won’t find better value anywhere else! Don’t miss out! Bring a colleague to insure you get full coverage. Register now!

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Conference Chair: David J. Anderson

Track Chairs: Alan Shalloway, Joshua Kerievsky, James Sutton, Eric Willeke, Chris Shinkle, David Anderson
Open Space: Jean Tabaka and Aaron Sanders
Lightning Talks: Eric Landes

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

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