Tuesday, February 15, 2005

Lean Design & Development 2005

Are you going to Lean Design & Development 2005 in Chicago? If so you can come see me speak at 12 noon Tuesday March 22nd. I need to speak to the organizers about the title of my presentation. Somehow they’ve inserted a spurious “Microsoft”. Believe me, Microsoft is not attempting to brand Feature Driven Development. I do intend to talk about my experience with FDD and how it is influencing MSF v4.0 and Visual Studio 2005 Team System with the inclusion of cumulative flow diagrams (which will be known as Work Remaining Charts) as a standard feature.

I’m particularly excited at the opportunity to meet the Lean community and to spend some time with Donald Reinertsen who is a key note speaker on the first day. I’m hoping to get some quality time to trade CFD war stories with Don. I wonder if my namesake will also be there?