Karl Scotland – Using Agility Strategically
Karl Scotland – Using Agility Strategically
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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. …
The Lean & Kanban 2009 conference which I promoted (am am speaking at) has been rescheduled to May 6-8. Its still in the same location in Miami, and the schedule is pretty much the same, although Don Reinertsen is unable to make it. There are early mutterings of a European based version of the conference towards the end of this …
The Lean & Kanban 2009 conference in Miami (KSE : Miami) is officially open for registration at http://leankanbanconference.com/. Its February 18th-20th at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel. From the Flyer: Two and half days featuring a full day of presentations with separate tracks for Lean and Kanban, plus a full day of open space and a half day of lightning talks. …
XP Day London 08 was last week. The slides and spreadsheet from my Kanban, Flow and Cadence are now available on the download page. All in all, the conference was a good one. Open Space went really well. Too many interesting options to choose from, which is usually a good sign. I ran a session on the Evolution of the …
InfoQ has just published a video of myself and Dave Nicolette’s presentation at Agile2008 – A Managers’ Introduction to Test Driven Development
The conference was opened by BBC’s Ian Palmer, who also hosted Day 1, and he began by making the analogy between delivering a software project and delivering a news story. There is a deadline, and a budget, but at the end of the day, its the story that’s important. Keynote: Peter Morowski – Senior VP R&D Borland – Driving Agile …
I’m going to be at the Agile Business Conference this week, primarily to give another performance of “A Manager’s Guide to Test Driven Development” with Dave Nicolette. I’ll try and blog highlights here again, and if you’re there, please say hello. I’ll be looking for any opportunity to talk about Kanban I can find!
All presentations are now available on the Downloads page. The KFC Development files are in Office 2007 format, so if you have an earlier version of Office you’ll need to download the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats.
Alan Cooper’s closing keynote turned out to be surprisingly good for me. There were points when I wondered where he was going, and whether I agreed, but by the end I was won over. His closing sentence was “Agile is the best thing to happen to Interaction Design”, and his key message seemed to be to iterate more at the …
Thursday morning was take up with presenting “KFC Development”. We were really pleased with how this went – around 20 people came along, and I think everyone stayed the course! Unfortunately we ran a bit over and had to stop short the final simulation, but I think we had got the ideas across by then. If you attended, please leave …