LWS Kansas City Dinner

We are having another Limited WIP Society KC meeting on Jan. 20 at 6:00 pm in the Overland Park, KS area.  Email me at tuttle.troy at gmail for more details. 

Speaking at the Lean Software and Systems Conference 2010

I was quite pleased to learn my Why Kanban presentation submission was accepted for the Lean Software and Systems Conference 2010!

I am very excited to meet and learn from some of the brightest thinkers in the Lean software development community. 

Want to learn more about Lean and Kanban?  Check out the speakers and topics at LSS2010:
http://atlanta2010.leanssc.org

Limited WIP Society KC Lunch!

We are meeting for a casual lunch time discussion of Kanban for software development on Tuesday, Dec. 15.  If you are in the KC area and interested in learning more about Kanban, you're welcome to join us. 

Send email to tuttle.troy at gmail (dot) com for details.

Kanban 101 Site

Janice Linden-Reed, an active member in the Kanban community recently announced an introductory Kanban site: Kanban101.com.

Great content with simple to understand definitions.

Kanban Slides Available from 10/28/2009 AgileKC Meeting

My Kanban presentation slide deck is available for download.  Thank you to all who attended.  Great questions and discussion afterward.

My slides contain a references page with links to pertinent materials.  Here are a few resources we discussed:

• Scrum-ban – Corey Ladas explains how to implement some Lean and Kanban principles on your Scrum team.
• Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash  - Poppendieck (published before Kanban for Software was coined, but very good resource for Lean organizations)
• Limited WIP Society – the best Kanban resource available on the web (resources page)

What Others Are Saying About Software - 10/26/2009

Self-Organization vs. Evolution
Another take on complex systems and team software from Jurgen: "These teams are non-deterministic and therefore able to heal themselves, while an automated or controlled system is deterministic, and therefore not self-healing."

Kanban Results
A Kanban report card from David Joyce at BBC in London.  Inspirational!

Kanban Presentation, AgileKC Meeting 10/28/2009

I will be giving my “Why Kanban” talk to the local Agile KC user group. Meetings start at 6:30 pm at the Pizza Shoppe at 5285 W. 95th St, Overland Park, KS.

More information can be found at the AgileKC group site. 

I am honored and excited to speak to the local Agile organization.  Hope to see you there!