Karl Scotland – Using Agility Strategically
Karl Scotland – Using Agility Strategically
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I’m really excited to be able to make my first visit to India to participate in the Agile India 2013 Conference, which is 27 Feb – 2 Mar in Bengaluru. I’ll be giving a talk on “5 Kanban Leverage Points: Making a Project Impact“, running a workshop on “Applied Kanban Thinking“, moderating a panel and giving a couple of Rally …
As a WordPress, and Jetpack user, I had a 2012 annual report generated for me. A quick summary is: 58000 views 30 posts 528 views on Feb 2nd. The top 5 most-viewed posts were: Kanban, Flow and Cadence What is Cadence The Science of Kanban – Introduction Running the Ball Flow Game The Anatomy of an MMF I find it interesting …
As a coach with Rally Software, I get to work with an amazing group of people on a variety of projects. I’d like to highlight a few of those which I am particularly looking forward to at the moment. RallyON Europe https://www.rallydev.com/community/rallyon-europe RallyON is an event we have hosted in Boulder for the last few years, as a way of …
How could I not attend a conference named after me? OK, maybe not named after me, but at least relatively local. How could I not attend a conference being held on my birthday? OK, I could also spend my birthday with my family! I will be at Lean Agile Scotland, however, which is being held September 21-22 in Edinburgh and …
CALM Beta is the follow up to CALM Alpha, held near Reading, UK in February of this year. It will be held August 1-2 in Boulder, Colerado. CALM (Cynefin, Agile and Lean Mashups) was conceived by myself, Simon Bennett, David Snowden, Steve Freeman and Joseph Pelrine, who all had the vision of exploring ways of growing the application of cognitive …
I was recently on a Q&A panel and fielded a question about how to deal with fixed date and scope projects. My response has evolved into a blog post which has just been published on the Rally Coaching Blog. Take a look and find out what the question has to do with trains and shopping!
I posted last week about the fact that I’ll be at the Lean Software & Systems Conference (LSSC12) in Boston soon. Well, there’s another smaller but similar conference coming up, which unfortunately I can’t be at. Why only blog about conferences I’m going to? This is one I would be at if I could, so here are the details. Lean …
I’ve just been putting together my personal program for LSSC12. This is the main US Conference put together by the Lean Software and Systems Consortium, which will be in Boston from May 13-18. Its definitely my favourite conference of the year and always gives me new insights and new ideas by bringing together a really diverse set of people from …
I recently gave an interview with Tom Cagley who puts together the Software Process and Measurement Cast, and talked about what I am calling Kanban Thinking. The result has just been published – have a listen and let me know what you think. SPaMCAST 174 – Karl Scotland, Kanban Thinking
2012 certainly started with a bang for me (lets hope it doesn’t end with a bang!). After a relaxing Christmas and New Year, I was up at 6am on January 2nd to head for Almens in the Swiss Alps, and an intense few days with Simon Bennett, Steve Freeman, Joseph Pelrine and Dave Snowden. We gathered at Joseph’s house to …