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!

Why Kanban? Presentation Slides Available

I would again like to thank everyone who attended my presentation, "Why Kanban?" at the Kansas City .NET User Group meeting on Sept. 22.

My presentation slide deck is available for download. 

More Kanban-related content to come soon! 

Speaking on Kanban, KC .NET User Group, Sept. 22

I will be speaking to the KC .Net User Group about Kanban for software development on Sept. 22 at 6:00 pm.  Meetings are held at Centriq Training, 8700 State Line Rd, Leawood, KS.  Watch the user group site for updated information or subscribe to their google groups mailing list.   Hope to see you there!

Interested in participating further in Lean / Kanban discussions?  Join the new Limited WIP Society KC mailing list. 

Announcing Limited WIP Society KC

I am pleased to announce the establishment of the Limited WIP Society KC group.  I encourage you to join the mailing list if you are interested in Lean/Kanban and if you live in the Kansas City Metro area (or within driving distance).

The group will be loosely associated with the parent site, Limited WIP Society, the best collection of Kanban material on the web.

As stated on the Google Groups page, the goals for the group are:

1. Sign up software professionals and start an online discussion once critical mass has been achieved.
2. Decide as a group if and how the group would like to "meet-up" for social and professional events.  This could be similar to the KC Agile group who meets once per month for a presentation and dinner.  Or it could be a type of open-spaces event where every participant is able to contribute to the topics being discussed.
3. Provide a support structure for software professionals to exchange ideas about Lean software approaches (Kanban).

I hope to see you on the group!

What Others Are Saying About Software - 7/30/2009

Commit to Sprint Planning or Definition of Done, Not Both
Jurgen Appelo provides great blog content in a succinct package. He opens another dimension in the Agile planning game space, and once again tells us things are not always as simple as many think. To do software well, it still requires a good amount of thinking for yourself.

Lean and Kanban 2009 Video Archive
The best software development content on the web right now. If you want to get a taste of how software will be built in the near future, lend an ear.