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Reflections on #Agile2009

I’m just about recovered from Agile 2009, and about to disappear off the grid for a much needed break in the sun. Before I do so, I wanted to jot down my immediate reflections on the conference while they were still fresh. The conversations in between sessions are always great at the Agile conferences, but this year, I think these …

Agile 2009 and Scan-Agile

I’m going to be at Agile 2009 next week in Chicago. I’m not presenting any sessions this year, but I’ll be hanging around the Kanban stand at the Freshers Fair, and probably spending some time in Open Jam to hopefully catch up with people in person while I have a chance. I’m also really pleased to have been invited to …

Lean & Kanban Miami 2009 Videos Available

This is the announcement from David Anderson on his blog: After some delay while we arranged for hosting, the videos from the Lean & Kanban 2009 conference in Miami are now available. I need to thank InfoQ for making all of this happen. As a media sponsor, InfoQ intended to use these videos together with the presentation slides on their …

Kanban, Flow and Cadence News

I did a re-run of Kanban. Flow and Cadence at miniSPA yesterday after being selected as one of the best sessions from the main SPA conference this year. I’ve just uploaded the slides on my downloads page. I had some good and appreciative feedback, and Mark Stringer has bee good enough to post some of his thoughts. I’m always glad …

Lean & Kanban Conferences – Looking back and looking forwards

Its a month now since the Lean & Kanban Conference in Miami and I haven’t had chance to blog about it. There’s probably not much I can add that hasn’t been said elsewhere already. It was an incredible week; stimulating, inspiring, focussed, energising. I learned a lot, and made and met old and new friends. For those who couldn’t make …

Zurich Lean Agile Scrum Slides

I have posted my slides for the talk I did at the Zurich Lean Agile Scrum event on my downloads page. Inspired by the quality of some of the “Zen” presentations at the Lean & Kanban Conference in Miami, I created a new deck, and included some more slides on some Lean history. I have added some notes to the …

SPA 2009 Highlights

This week I was at SPA2009. Possibly one of the best conferences I’ve been to recently. Diverse people with lots of great ideas. There are my highlights. Coaching Self Organising Teams This was an excellent session but Joseph Pelrine, full of useful and interesting ideas I hadn’t come across before. Behaviour is a function of a Person and their Environment. …

Lean & Kanban 2009 Miami Promotion

A new program and pricing structure has been created for the Lean & Kanban Conference in Miami. There is now a Lean Day and a Kanban Day, each with a single track. The idea behind the new program is that it allows everyone to be able to see all the presentations, as well as enabling people to only come for …

Lean & Kanban Conference London 2009 – Call for Ideas

Update: The provisional dates have moved to from Sep 21-22 to Sep 27-29. I am pleased to announce that we have started to plan for a Lean & Kanban Conference to take place in London, provisionally set for Sep 27-29 at the RSA (http://www.thersa.org/house). As well as hoping to get these dates pencilled into your diaries, we would like to …

Lean & Kanban 2009 Miami Update

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. …