We are packing our bags for Europe this week! With conferences in Sweden and Germany, we anticipate opportunities to meet and talk with some really interesting people - thought leaders of our time!
Yuval Yeret recently blogged on, “How Kanban and TOC Critical Chain Relate”. He discusses the similarities between Multi-Project Critical Chain and Kanban for driving improvement. Yuval points out that while generalization is a worthy vision of Kanban, many organizations simply cannot achieve that (ex: SysAdmins, DBA’s). Therefore, the need to understand the capability of a specialist is key to avoid overburdening them and abusing our scarcest of resources. http://networkedblogs.com/ogomM
Events
Devopsdays (the conference that brings development and operations together) is happening in Goteborg, Sweden Oct 14-15. Am really looking forward to hearing Mattias Jansson and Noa Resare present “A Case Study in Operations and Development Integration at Spotify” and how they used kanban to avoid overloading teams and dealing with “short term panicky stuff”. http://devopsdays.org/events/2011-goteborg/
Next week, I’ll be attending the 1st Lean Kanban Central Europe conference in Munich. Twitter hashtag is #lkce11. Looking forward to keynotes from John Seddon, Kent Beck, David Anderson and Stephen Bungay. And Jurgen Appelo’s is presenting “Complexity Thinking? Or Systems Thinking++?”! But Darn! it’s at the same time as Fridtjof Detzner and Sönke Rümpler’s talk on “Why Kanban Fits the Jimdo Culture”. Good thing the presentations are being recorded:-) http://www.lean-kanban-conference.de/
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Kanban leadership workshop in Vienna Dec 5-7, 2011
This 3-day leadership/coaching workshop with David is limited to just 12 people.
This workshop is for anyone tasked with leading a change initiative in their organization or at a client organization in 2012. It is suitable for managers, process engineers, change agents, experienced Agile, Lean, or project management coaches and consultants, 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. Attendees are expected to be familiar with the content of the book, “Kanban - Successful Evolutionary Change for your Technology Business.
These intensive 3 day workshops are intended to transfer the knowledge and skills to enable you to lead Lean transformations using the Kanban Method
The price for this workshop is $4000 USD per person.
Don’t miss out! Read what others are saying about this workshop.
Register today!
Regular price $4000 (USD) per person
EARLY BIRD SPECIAL $3400 (USD) per person!
Enter Discount code: EARLYBIRDCE
expires November 21, 2011
A copy of the book will be supplied upon registration. Attendees will maximize the value if they are already familiar with the material.
The intent is to have an interactive collaborative session designed to facilitate knowledge sharing and learning. Attendees should come prepared to discuss their own experiences with Kanban and challenging situations they’ve faced with change initiatives at clients or employers
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 workshop will include the use of the GetKanban game simulation and discussion of its value as a teaching aid.
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.
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.
Unfortunately, this class has been cancelled.
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
Day 1
Kanban Mechanics
- Demand Analysis
- Value-Network Mapping
- Visualization
- Work Item Types
- WIP Limits
- Classes of Service
- Service Level Agreements (SLA)
- Kanban Simulation Game
Day 2
Why Kanban
- Recipe for Success
- Case Studies
- Improvement Opportunities
- Understanding Variation
- Bottleneck Management
- Economic Cost Model for Lean (Waste)
- Metrics
About the presenter
Daniel Vacanti, MBA, was a contributor to and a primary reviewer of David Anderson’s Kanban book. He is a 15 year software industry veteran who specializes in the leading, mentoring, and coaching of teams in agile practices. He has a record of delivering customer valued results working with teams and companies of varying sizes. His emphasis is on the business-appropriate use of technology to help companies achieve their specific financial goals. Daniel has worked with David Anderson for over 10 years and was a Development Manager on some of the earliest kanban implementations with David.
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:
Washington DC, USA
Venue:
CC Pace
4100 Monument Corner Drive
Suite 400
Fairfax, VA 22030
Lots going on this week with the release of a new book on performance and the Lean & Kanban 2011 conference in Benelux. Discussions aplenty this week around kanban boards reflecting reality (or not) and the impact it has to swimlanes (or not).
Pawel Brodzinski’s recent blog post, “Kanban Story: Kanban Board Should Reflect the
Reality”, hits on a kanban design decision worthy of examination. Pawel discusses the
reasons why a board which reflects something better than reality actually contributes to faulty decisions. http://blog.brodzinski.com/2011/10/kanban-board-reflect-reality.html
A post regarding “Kanban for Network Services team” on the kanbanops board generated considerable discussion from the community this week. Great ideas from contributors on how to handle variability due to different work item task size. And yes, swim lanes were suggested from multiple sources as a means to manage variability. http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/kanbanops/message/109
Events
Yet another inspiring AGILEMinds initiative, Lean & Kanban 2011 Benelux hosted by Maarten Volders Oct 3-4 included a line up of amazing speakers and thought leaders from all over the world. http://www.agileminds.be/event/2
See twitter hashtag #lkbe11 for inside scoop from attendees and speakers. Looks like there was some feisty debate over swim lanes and damage capacity. We can’t wait to get a look at all the presentations! For now, David Anderson’s slides on “Kanban - When Is It Not Appropriate” are available at http://agilemanagement.net/images/uploads/KanbanWhenIsItNotAppropriate.pdf
Alan Shalloway’s slides on “Lean Kanban is About People” are available at http://www.netobjectives.com/resources/slides/lean-kanban-about-people-lkbe2011
Kanban Leadership Workshop Miami, FL - Jan 11-13, 2012
This 3-day leadership/coaching workshop with David is limited to just 12 people.
This workshop is for anyone tasked with leading a change initiative in their organization or at a client organization in 2012. It is suitable for managers, process engineers, change agents, experienced Agile, Lean, or project management coaches and consultants, 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. Attendees are expected to be familiar with the content of the book, “Kanban - Successful Evolutionary Change for your Technology Business.
These intensive 3 day workshops are intended to transfer the knowledge and skills to enable you to lead Lean transformations using the Kanban Method
The 2012 price for this workshop is $3500 USD per person.
Don’t miss out! Read what others are saying about this workshop.
Register today!
Regular price $3500 per person
EARLY BIRD SPECIAL $2800 per person!
Enter Discount code: MIAMI12EARLYBIRD
expires October 31, 2011
A copy of the book will be supplied upon registration. Attendees will maximize the value if they are already familiar with the material.
The intent is to have an interactive collaborative session designed to facilitate knowledge sharing and learning. Attendees should come prepared to discuss their own experiences with Kanban and challenging situations they’ve faced with change initiatives at clients or employers
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 workshop will include the use of the GetKanban game simulation and discussion of its value as a teaching aid.
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.
Location: Miami, FL
Venue
DoubleTree by Hilton Grand Hotel Biscayne Bay
1717 North Bayshore Drive, Miami, Florida, United States 33132-1180
Tel: 1-305-372-0313 Fax: 1-305-539-9228
