From the kanbandev list:
Just wanted to remind you that our Lean & Kanban 2009 Conference is taking place in Miami May 6-8. http://www.leankanbanconference.com/
We’ve confirmed a few additional speakers for the event. Notably Joshua Kerievsky who’ll talk about the iterationless, estimationless XP process at Industrial Logic, and Jeff Patton who’s been using kanban with his clients in North America. It’s great to have Jeff, a recipient of the Agile Alliance Gordon Pask Award, on our roster.
We’ve also got Rob Hathaway from London who’ll be presenting a kanban case study from IPC Media in London and Sterling Mortensen who’ll revisit the Lean implementation at Hewlett-Packard LaserJet Development that revolutionized their cycle time and productivity.
This is undoubtedly the best collection of practitioners of Lean techniques in software development ever assembled. Don’t miss out. Register soon. http://www.leankanbanconference.com/
Thanks for the comment on the jazz-as-agile-metaphor proposal for Agile2009. I have completely re-done the proposal, if you’d like to take another look: http://tinyurl.com/cs5nd3.