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For a number of reasons, the organizing committee and speakers have chosen to reschedule the Lean & Kanban Conference for May 6th-8th. We did not take this decision lightly. However, given the slow rate of registrations, we want to give everyone as much time as possible to prepare and schedule their participation. We want to provide maximum value to sponsors and take time to prepare a proper "Transactions" publication with contributions from all the speakers. All other details of the event remain unchanged with the exception that Don Reinertsen is unable to make it. It will be held in Miami at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel and the price remains the same. You can register at [url] will be contacting all the currently registered attendees over the weekend offering them a refund, or a credit towards any rebooking fee they may incur for travel changes. I truly believe this change is the right decision and will make for a significantly better event for all. I would like to apologize for any inconvenience caused to the small number of you who made a commitment and registered already. I hope will understand. Technorati tag: David+Anderson, Agile+Management, Agile, Lean, kanban, Alan+Shalloway, Dean+Leffingwell
Agilemanagement Friday, January 09, 2009
Chris Matts and I are planning a get-together of folks interest in real option theory applied to technology project management and software engineering processes in London on 11th January in the late afternoon or early evening. If you are interested in coming along drop me or Chris an email. We haven't set a venue yet - no point in committing early - may as well wait until we have more information on likely attendee numbers ;-) we're keeping our options open. Technorati tag: David+Anderson, Agile+Management, Real+Options, Chris+Matts
Agilemanagement Friday, January 02, 2009
Due to demand from members of the kanbandev group I have created a Lean Kanban conference to bring together the community to discuss and extend the state-of-the-art in using Lean and Kanban in software development and full project lifecycle management. Registration is now open [url] Draft Agenda and Promotional Flyer (PDFs) The event is limited to 125 folks. We expect it to sell out. We've selected a superb venue the Mandarin Oriental Miami located on South Beach at Brickell Quay right on the [url] of committed sponsors like Net Objectives and Ultimate Software, VersionOne we are able to keep the registration fee down to only $800 per person for the full 2.5 day event. Registration includes an invite to our evening reception on May 6th courtesy of Ultimate Software. Breakfast and coffee breaks are included all 3 days. Lunch is included on Wednesday and Thursday 7th and 8th. Wednesday 6th May - Keynote Alan Shalloway - Lean Track and Kanban Track sessions Thursday 7th May - Keynote Dean Leffingwell - followed by Open Space all day Friday 8th May - Keynote David J. Anderson - followed Lightning talks for 2 hours Please register now to avoid disappointment and book your flights to Miami. Please be sure to make a reservation with the hotel. Ask for the "David J. Anderson & Associates" event rate of $250 per night. The hotel has indicated that it will honor this rate for extended bookings prior or post the event subject to availability. Our confirmed speakers are: David J. Anderson Alan Shalloway Dean Leffingwell Peter Middleton James Sutton Clinton Keith Amit Rathore Corey Ladas Karl Scotland Eric Landes Eric Willeke Reni Elisabeth Phil Friis Alisson Vale David Laribee Linda Cook and Max Keeler Sterling Mortensen Many of these people are regular contributors to the kanbandev group and havetogether created and lead the kanban movement over the last 18 months.I believe this is the finest list of proponents of Lean software development ever assembled. With our 2.5 day format, we have one day of sessions in two tracks, one day of open space and half a day of lightning talks. This will give all attendees the chance to work with the experts directly. I look forward to welcoming you to Miami in May. [This article was updated January 9th communicating that we rescheduled the event from the original dates of Feb 18th-20th.]Technorati tag: David+Anderson, Agile+Management, Agile, Lean, kanban, Alan+Shalloway, Dean+Leffingwell
Agilemanagement Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Nice balanced piece from Scott Ambler in Dr. Dobb's Journal revewing the new Technical Note from the SEI which I co-authored. One slight correction to Scott's piece, I actually wasn't an author of the Agile Manifesto (Jon Kern represented the FDD community at that meetings) rather I was an author of the Declaration of Interdependence that founded the APLN. Not sure that I want to be known as one of the AC5 though ;-) Technorati tag: David+Anderson, Agile+Management, CMMI, Hillel+Glazer, Scott+Ambler, Mike+Konrad, Jeff+Dalton, Sandra+Shrum, Software+Engineering, SEI, Carnegie+Mellon, Dr+Dobb's
Agilemanagement Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Eric Willeke and Karl Scotland have been on Twitter overnight suggesting they'd like to see FDD content presented at Agile 2009. Recently there has been renewed interest in FDD from the BDD/Feature Injection community in London (Liz Keogh, Chris Matts). There is also growing interest in domain-driven approaches to design and development and this has renewed interest in color modeling. If I see sufficient demand I will prod some FDD folks such as Stephen Palmer, Daniel Vacanti and others and see if we can get a couple of submissions together. What specific aspects of FDD would you like highlighted and why do you think it would be interesting? On hhich stage at Agile 2009 should FDD appear? Strangely it feels like an Agile Frontier topic because it is fringe, slow burning and unfashionable but that is so weird for what was one of the original agile methods. Technorati tag: Agile+2009, Agile+Alliance, FDD, Feature+Driven+Development, Domain+Driven+Design, Color+Modeling, Peter+Coad
Agilemanagement Thursday, December 18, 2008
Nice article from Karl Scotland on why Kanban isn't just for mature teams. I particularly like his conclusion... It seems to me that there is in fact a subtle difference between kanban and typical agile processes such as Scrum. Scrum focuses on being agile which may (and should) lead to improving. Kanban focuses on improving, which may lead to being agile. However, being agile itself is not important - it just happens to be the best way we (or at least I) know at the moment. If a team improves in other ways, then its the improvement that's important. I would go a little further. Kanban is a way of insuring sustainable pace. Sustainable pace generally means that slack exists in the system. Slack generates opportunities for people to think about the process and what hinders overall team performance. It is this that leads to improvements being implemented. Kanban also creates a process that visibly exposes bottlenecks, waste and variability. Hence, kanban exposes improvement opportunities at the same time as providing a system with slack that allows people to focus on implementing improvements. As Karl says, agility is a potential outcome. A culture of continuous improvement (kaizen) is the goal. Technorati tag: Agile+Management, Software+Engineering, David+Anderson, Kanban, Lean, Karl+Scotland
Agilemanagement Thursday, December 18, 2008
Karl Scotland was next to submit for Agile 2009 with a Kanban, Flow and Cadence half day workshop for the coaching stage. Please take the time to support Karl and Kanban at Agile 2009 by reviewing the proposal. Thanks. Technorati tag: Agile+2009, Agile+Alliance, Kanban, Lean, Karl+Scotland
Agilemanagement Thursday, December 18, 2008
I have decided to show leadership by making a submission to the Agile 2009 conference early. The organizers are very concerned that many folks will leave their submissions until very close to the closing date. The intent of the open review system is to encourage feedback to refine submissions and optimize quality and value of content at the conference. My submission is about new techniques for risk management that includes influences from lean pull systems (kanban) and real option theory. After some careful consideration of options, I concluded that I had to submit it to the Agile Frontier stage. Please assist and encourage the process by taking the time to review it and provide me with feedback. Thanks. http://agile2009.agile... you intend to submit a proposal yourself please do so as soon as possible. Let's make the open review system work properly. Folks who submit early should be most likely to succeed. Technorati tag: Agile+2009, Agile+Alliance, David+Anderson, Project+Management, Portfolio+Management, Risk+Management, Real+Options, Kanban, Lean
Agilemanagement Thursday, December 18, 2008
Thanks to everyone who contributed with comments to my open letter to Johanna and Ahmed. It worked! A new stage has been added to the Agile 2009 program. Olav Maassen and Eric Willeke will coordinate the Agile Frontier. It will be the home for out-of-left field, discontinuous innovations, dissenting voices, unfashionable ideas and slow burning concepts that are developing slowly in our community. Here is an extract from the CFP... This is a stage for pioneering Agile thoughts, practices, models and questions. It is a place to share emergent, intriguing, minority interest and innovative ideas. It is a home for unfashionable concepts, unpopular ideas and dissenting voices. It is fertile ground for slow burning, long term ideas, where they can grow and thrive. Ideas like Agile Contracting, which appeared in Breaking Acts last year but is still a minority interest activity very much in its infancy. The Agile Frontier stage accepts proposals that are new and do not fit into the existing categories. It is the home of every idea for which "people" say "it is not Agile" or "it is just wrong". It is the double black run for your new ideas as a speaker where the audience will challenge you on every aspect. Performances on this stage may illuminate new approaches that will make you question your beliefs or inspire you to try something new. Whatever the specific content is, each session will challenge you to think hard about what you do, whether you're presenting or attending. Performances on this stage may or may not impact the future direction and maturity of Agile processes. At the same time, it is the place to visit to see what could become hot in the next five years. Technorati tag: Agile+2009, Agile+Chicago, Agile+Alliance, David+Anderson, Eric+Willeke, Olav+Maassen, Johanna+Rothman
Agilemanagement Wednesday, December 17, 2008
He's been working on it since the Agile 2008 conference. Now it's available the book, of the paper of the Breaking Acts presentation from Agile 2008 in Toronto, Scrumban by Corey Ladas. Get your copy today! Technorati tag: David+Anderson, Agile+Management, Agile, Lean, Kanban, Corey+Ladas
Agilemanagement Sunday, December 14, 2008
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For a number of reasons, the organizing committee and speakers have chosen to reschedule the Lean & Kanban Conference for May 6th-8th. We did not take this decision lightly. However, given the slow rate of registrations, we want to give everyone as much time as possible to prepare and schedule their participation. We want to provide maximum value to sponsors and take time to prepare a proper "Transactions" publication with contributions from all the speakers. All other details of the event remain unchanged with the exception that Don Reinertsen is unable to make it. It will be held in Miami at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel and the price remains the same. You can register at [url] will be contacting all the currently registered attendees over the weekend offering them a refund, or a credit towards any rebooking fee they may incur for travel changes. I truly believe this change is the right decision and will make for a significantly better event for all. I would like to apologize for any inconvenience caused to the small number of you who made a commitment and registered already. I hope will understand. Technorati tag: David+Anderson, Agile+Management, Agile, Lean, kanban, Alan+Shalloway, Dean+Leffingwell
Agilemanagement Friday, January 09, 2009
Chris Matts and I are planning a get-together of folks interest in real option theory applied to technology project management and software engineering processes in London on 11th January in the late afternoon or early evening. If you are interested in coming along drop me or Chris an email. We haven't set a venue yet - no point in committing early - may as well wait until we have more information on likely attendee numbers ;-) we're keeping our options open. Technorati tag: David+Anderson, Agile+Management, Real+Options, Chris+Matts
Agilemanagement Friday, January 02, 2009
Due to demand from members of the kanbandev group I have created a Lean Kanban conference to bring together the community to discuss and extend the state-of-the-art in using Lean and Kanban in software development and full project lifecycle management. Registration is now open [url] Draft Agenda and Promotional Flyer (PDFs) The event is limited to 125 folks. We expect it to sell out. We've selected a superb venue the Mandarin Oriental Miami located on South Beach at Brickell Quay right on the [url] of committed sponsors like Net Objectives and Ultimate Software, VersionOne we are able to keep the registration fee down to only $800 per person for the full 2.5 day event. Registration includes an invite to our evening reception on May 6th courtesy of Ultimate Software. Breakfast and coffee breaks are included all 3 days. Lunch is included on Wednesday and Thursday 7th and 8th. Wednesday 6th May - Keynote Alan Shalloway - Lean Track and Kanban Track sessions Thursday 7th May - Keynote Dean Leffingwell - followed by Open Space all day Friday 8th May - Keynote David J. Anderson - followed Lightning talks for 2 hours Please register now to avoid disappointment and book your flights to Miami. Please be sure to make a reservation with the hotel. Ask for the "David J. Anderson & Associates" event rate of $250 per night. The hotel has indicated that it will honor this rate for extended bookings prior or post the event subject to availability. Our confirmed speakers are: David J. Anderson Alan Shalloway Dean Leffingwell Peter Middleton James Sutton Clinton Keith Amit Rathore Corey Ladas Karl Scotland Eric Landes Eric Willeke Reni Elisabeth Phil Friis Alisson Vale David Laribee Linda Cook and Max Keeler Sterling Mortensen Many of these people are regular contributors to the kanbandev group and havetogether created and lead the kanban movement over the last 18 months.I believe this is the finest list of proponents of Lean software development ever assembled. With our 2.5 day format, we have one day of sessions in two tracks, one day of open space and half a day of lightning talks. This will give all attendees the chance to work with the experts directly. I look forward to welcoming you to Miami in May. [This article was updated January 9th communicating that we rescheduled the event from the original dates of Feb 18th-20th.]Technorati tag: David+Anderson, Agile+Management, Agile, Lean, kanban, Alan+Shalloway, Dean+Leffingwell
Agilemanagement Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Nice balanced piece from Scott Ambler in Dr. Dobb's Journal revewing the new Technical Note from the SEI which I co-authored. One slight correction to Scott's piece, I actually wasn't an author of the Agile Manifesto (Jon Kern represented the FDD community at that meetings) rather I was an author of the Declaration of Interdependence that founded the APLN. Not sure that I want to be known as one of the AC5 though ;-) Technorati tag: David+Anderson, Agile+Management, CMMI, Hillel+Glazer, Scott+Ambler, Mike+Konrad, Jeff+Dalton, Sandra+Shrum, Software+Engineering, SEI, Carnegie+Mellon, Dr+Dobb's
Agilemanagement Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Eric Willeke and Karl Scotland have been on Twitter overnight suggesting they'd like to see FDD content presented at Agile 2009. Recently there has been renewed interest in FDD from the BDD/Feature Injection community in London (Liz Keogh, Chris Matts). There is also growing interest in domain-driven approaches to design and development and this has renewed interest in color modeling. If I see sufficient demand I will prod some FDD folks such as Stephen Palmer, Daniel Vacanti and others and see if we can get a couple of submissions together. What specific aspects of FDD would you like highlighted and why do you think it would be interesting? On hhich stage at Agile 2009 should FDD appear? Strangely it feels like an Agile Frontier topic because it is fringe, slow burning and unfashionable but that is so weird for what was one of the original agile methods. Technorati tag: Agile+2009, Agile+Alliance, FDD, Feature+Driven+Development, Domain+Driven+Design, Color+Modeling, Peter+Coad
Agilemanagement Thursday, December 18, 2008
Nice article from Karl Scotland on why Kanban isn't just for mature teams. I particularly like his conclusion... It seems to me that there is in fact a subtle difference between kanban and typical agile processes such as Scrum. Scrum focuses on being agile which may (and should) lead to improving. Kanban focuses on improving, which may lead to being agile. However, being agile itself is not important - it just happens to be the best way we (or at least I) know at the moment. If a team improves in other ways, then its the improvement that's important. I would go a little further. Kanban is a way of insuring sustainable pace. Sustainable pace generally means that slack exists in the system. Slack generates opportunities for people to think about the process and what hinders overall team performance. It is this that leads to improvements being implemented. Kanban also creates a process that visibly exposes bottlenecks, waste and variability. Hence, kanban exposes improvement opportunities at the same time as providing a system with slack that allows people to focus on implementing improvements. As Karl says, agility is a potential outcome. A culture of continuous improvement (kaizen) is the goal. Technorati tag: Agile+Management, Software+Engineering, David+Anderson, Kanban, Lean, Karl+Scotland
Agilemanagement Thursday, December 18, 2008
Karl Scotland was next to submit for Agile 2009 with a Kanban, Flow and Cadence half day workshop for the coaching stage. Please take the time to support Karl and Kanban at Agile 2009 by reviewing the proposal. Thanks. Technorati tag: Agile+2009, Agile+Alliance, Kanban, Lean, Karl+Scotland
Agilemanagement Thursday, December 18, 2008
I have decided to show leadership by making a submission to the Agile 2009 conference early. The organizers are very concerned that many folks will leave their submissions until very close to the closing date. The intent of the open review system is to encourage feedback to refine submissions and optimize quality and value of content at the conference. My submission is about new techniques for risk management that includes influences from lean pull systems (kanban) and real option theory. After some careful consideration of options, I concluded that I had to submit it to the Agile Frontier stage. Please assist and encourage the process by taking the time to review it and provide me with feedback. Thanks. http://agile2009.agile... you intend to submit a proposal yourself please do so as soon as possible. Let's make the open review system work properly. Folks who submit early should be most likely to succeed. Technorati tag: Agile+2009, Agile+Alliance, David+Anderson, Project+Management, Portfolio+Management, Risk+Management, Real+Options, Kanban, Lean
Agilemanagement Thursday, December 18, 2008
Thanks to everyone who contributed with comments to my open letter to Johanna and Ahmed. It worked! A new stage has been added to the Agile 2009 program. Olav Maassen and Eric Willeke will coordinate the Agile Frontier. It will be the home for out-of-left field, discontinuous innovations, dissenting voices, unfashionable ideas and slow burning concepts that are developing slowly in our community. Here is an extract from the CFP... This is a stage for pioneering Agile thoughts, practices, models and questions. It is a place to share emergent, intriguing, minority interest and innovative ideas. It is a home for unfashionable concepts, unpopular ideas and dissenting voices. It is fertile ground for slow burning, long term ideas, where they can grow and thrive. Ideas like Agile Contracting, which appeared in Breaking Acts last year but is still a minority interest activity very much in its infancy. The Agile Frontier stage accepts proposals that are new and do not fit into the existing categories. It is the home of every idea for which "people" say "it is not Agile" or "it is just wrong". It is the double black run for your new ideas as a speaker where the audience will challenge you on every aspect. Performances on this stage may illuminate new approaches that will make you question your beliefs or inspire you to try something new. Whatever the specific content is, each session will challenge you to think hard about what you do, whether you're presenting or attending. Performances on this stage may or may not impact the future direction and maturity of Agile processes. At the same time, it is the place to visit to see what could become hot in the next five years. Technorati tag: Agile+2009, Agile+Chicago, Agile+Alliance, David+Anderson, Eric+Willeke, Olav+Maassen, Johanna+Rothman
Agilemanagement Wednesday, December 17, 2008
He's been working on it since the Agile 2008 conference. Now it's available the book, of the paper of the Breaking Acts presentation from Agile 2008 in Toronto, Scrumban by Corey Ladas. Get your copy today! Technorati tag: David+Anderson, Agile+Management, Agile, Lean, Kanban, Corey+Ladas
Agilemanagement Sunday, December 14, 2008
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