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Lean Software & Systems Conference – Call for Papers open!

Posted by Christophe on November 15, 2009

Mark your calendar. The LSSC registration and call for papers are now open.
This is a small conference (250 people). If you want in, register quickly!

I’ll be joining the 40 speakers.

If your agile implementation doesn’t deliver what you were expecting, this conference may give you a new view on what to do next.

 

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The inaugural Lean Software & Systems Conference is now open for registration and paper submissions.

Register or submit now at http://atlanta2010.leanssc.org/

Conference Chair: David Anderson
Track Chairs: Alan Shalloway, Joshua Kerievsky, James Sutton, Richard Turner, Eric Willeke, Chris Shinkle and David Anderson
Event Planner: Kelly Wilson (SEP)
Event Team: Janice Linden-Reed, Dennis Stevens, Aaron Sanders, Eric Landes

Registration
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Registration is limited by venue capacity to 250 in addition to our 40 speakers and event planning team.

The first 50 registrants receive a special discount price of $800, plus an exclusive invite to the speaker luncheon on Thursday April 22nd and a special Ltd WIP Society t-shirt designed by David Anderson and exclusive to the event.

Regular registration will cost $995.

Late comer registration after March 31st 2010 will cost $1250.

There are currently no plans to offer single day registration.

Venue
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JW Marriott, Buckhead, Atlanta. A special room block of 180 rooms has been reserved. Please use the link on the conference site to make your reservation.

Dates
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Wednesday April 21 to Friday April 23, 2010

Call For Papers
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This year’s conference features 2 key note speakers, 21 invited speakers and 17 presentations selected from the call for papers. Details of all invited speakers are already on the web site.

The 2010 event features 3 tracks per day and either 1 hour or 45 minute time slots depending on track and day.

Sponsorship
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Software Engineering Professionals (SEP) is the organizing sponsor. We are seeking other sponsors for the event and the sponsorship proposal package will be available in December. If you wish to receive a copy please email info@leanssc.org

Register or submit now at http://atlanta2010.leanssc.org/

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Oye! Oye! New poppendieck book now available

Posted by Christophe on October 30, 2009

Mary and Tom Poppendieck third book just came out!

As the usage of lean in software development matures, expect specific and actionable ideas.

If you can’t wait to get the book, just buy it now.

Leading Lean Software Development

If you have any ounce of patience, you can read the table of content, and the book sysnopsis.

Leading Lean Software Development: Results Are not the Point

Building on their breakthrough bestsellers Lean Software Development and Implementing Lean Software Development, Mary and Tom Poppendieck’s latest book shows software leaders and team members exactly how to drive high-value change throughout a software organization—and make it stick. They go far beyond generic implementation guidelines, demonstrating exactly how to make lean work in real projects, environments, and companies.

The Poppendiecks organize this book around the crucial concept of frames, the unspoken mental constructs that shape our perspectives and control our behavior in ways we rarely notice. For software leaders and team members, some frames lead to long-term failure, while others offer a strong foundation for success. Drawing on decades of experience, the authors present twenty-four frames that offer a coherent, complete framework for leading lean software development. You’ll discover powerful new ways to act as competency leader, product champion, improvement mentor, front-line leader, and even visionary.

  • Systems thinking: focusing on customers, bringing predictability to demand, and revamping policies that cause inefficiency
  • Technical excellence: implementing low-dependency architectures, TDD, and evolutionary development processes, and promoting deeper developer expertise
  • Reliable delivery: managing your biggest risks more effectively, and optimizing both workflow and schedules
  • Relentless improvement: seeing problems, solving problems, sharing the knowledge
  • Great people: finding and growing professionals with purpose, passion, persistence, and pride
  • Aligned leaders: getting your entire leadership team on the same page

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Nov-11-09: Panel at the PDMA LA: Transitioning to Agile Product Development – Lessons Learned –

Posted by Christophe on October 23, 2009

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I’ll be a panelist at the next PDMA LA event.

What: “Transitioning to Agile Product Development – Lessons Learned”
Where: The Olympic Collection, 11301 W. Olympic Blvd. at Sawtelle Blvd. / West Los Angeles
When: Weds, Nov 11th, 6-9PM

Register here

Members $35 in advance / $45 day of event. Non-members $45 in advance / $55 day of event. Students $30 with ID

Learn about the benefit of agile product development as well as the pitfalls and best practices from agile experts and practitioners about transitioning to an agile product development environment.

Other panelists include:

  • Scott Downey – Chief Scrum Master from MySpace.com Scott has been active in the Software Industry for more than 18 years, holding positions at nearly every level of organizations, and in a wide variety of organization sizes. He is currently the Head Agile Coach for MySpace.com and is a Certified Scrum Practitioner, a member of both the Scrum Alliance and the Agile Alliance. He conducts regular Scrum Master Certification courses in Beverly Hills.
  • Scott Gilbert – President of Enthiosys Scott is an expert in Agile software product management, business planning, project management and business development. He has worked in a variety of high-tech sectors including enterprise software, aerospace and defense, satellite communications and interactive media as an independent contractor and co-founder of start-up companies. Scott holds BBA degrees in marketing management and international management from the University of New Mexico, received his ScrumMaster certification in 2006, and Scrum Product Owner and Scrum Practitioner certifications in 2008. He is a generous PDMA volunteer.
  • Ricardo Aguirre, Consultant Ricardo has over ten years experience creating, developing and delivering innovative web-based and mobile software application products featuring web 2.0 concepts and technologies using both traditional and iterative (Agile) methodologies. He brings experience from Sony, AT&T and Qualcomm to his current position as Sr. Product Manager with Trimble Navigation.

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CIO forum @ Phoenician in Scottsdale

Posted by Christophe on September 13, 2009

2009-09 CIO-forum

I’m excited to go and running a workshop tomorrow at the CIO Forum in Scottsdale.

I will challenge CIOs on why they may be the cause for their challenged or even failing agile implementations.

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CSM class in LA with Jeff Sutherland and Scott Downey

Posted by Christophe on September 13, 2009

Dr. Jeff Sutherland and Scott Downey (Agile Coach @ myspace) will be hosting a class at The Tower, Beverly Hills on Monday and Tuesday, September 20 and 21.

The Scrum Alliance will soon require a written exam before certification is awarded, so this may be your last opportunity before testing begins in the Fall.

If you are interested, please visit the registration page.

Also, check out DigitalLA.net and consider joining them on Monday night at Trader Vic’s for a panel discussion. Registration is required and available on the Digital LA site.

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Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation

Posted by Christophe on September 12, 2009

motivationCareer analyst Dan Pink shows the terrifying disconnect between what social science knows and what managers do: rewards for performance don’t work; more often, they have a negative impact.

Watch Dan on Ted.

Then ask yourself: “how much am I impeding my company with carrots and sticks?”

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Lean Software Development online training

Posted by Christophe on September 8, 2009

Alan Shalloway from Net Objectives is re-broadcasting his online lean training series.

Details on their website.

Missed the whole thing? Get the CD!

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Lean & Kanban 2009 – Videos

Posted by Christophe on July 23, 2009

If you didn’t manage to get to Miami for the inaugural Lean & Kanban conference then you can now watch most the presentations.

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Rally Cafe #3

Posted by Christophe on July 7, 2009

rally-cafe

Rallydev is running a new weekly agile live show every tuesday morning called Rally Cafe.

In each show, they give tips on a different coffee type, find something relevant in the news and get a guest to answer a few questions (including from viewers).

With the tour de France going on, they thought of me as a guest for their third show. It is now available on ustream.

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Majority Report

Posted by Christophe on June 23, 2009

Today, distributed teams are stuck between 3 bad choices:
-use a limited online collaboration tool, and miss human interaction
-use local white boards, and miss real time information sharing

18 month ago, I wrote about Quickies -technology supported sticky notes- to bridge the white board and it’s online counterpart.

Minority Report offered a pure digital version of the white board.

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According to Schematic, this is maybe not that far away…

Forget the number of LoC (lines of code) metric, here comes the DoG (distance of gesture) productivity metric.

You gotta love progress.

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