Tuesday, November 08, 2011

Kanban Weekly roundup - Nov 9, 2011

                                                                                                                                          By Dominica DeGrandis

With no videos recorded at the recent Lean Enterprise Software and Systems conference (#LESS2011), we look at some write-ups and summaries posted by attendees.  We also take a look at some kanban board design discussions.

News

Hakan Forss’s summary of LESS2011 focused on two of the four main tracks (Complexity & Systems Thinking and Beyond Budgeting).  It sounds like Carl Savage’s presentation on “Overcoming Education Inertia” was a winner.
http://hakanforss.wordpress.com/tag/less2011/

Alan Shalloway posted his notes from his “Non-Linear Birds of a Feather” session at LESS2011.  And, as a bonus he included definitions of the three “M” words: Mura (unevenness of work) causes muri (overburdening of workers) which causes muda (waste).
http://www.netobjectives.com/blogs/LESS2011-birds-of-a-feather

That “Birds of a Feather” session led to a series of twitter exchanges regarding kanban board design which then generated some interesting discussions on the topic.
http://blog.brodzinski.com/

Events

Town-hall with David J. Anderson
Webinar: Nov 10, 2011; 10 AM - 11:30 AM PacificTown hall link
Join the conversation on twitter with #DJASwift
http://www.swift-kanban.com/emailer/dja_townhall_iv/invitation_email.html?utm_source=streamsend&utm_medium=email&utm_content=14982775&utm_campaign=Invitation%20for%20Fourth%20Kanban%20Global%20Town-hall%20Meeting%21%20

Lean Software Systems Conference – Boston 2012
Registration for LSSC12 is open.  Check it out.  The Twitter hashtag is #lssc12
http://lssc12.leanssc.org/

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