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Lean Software and Systems Conference 2010

The Lean Software and Systems Conference 2010 is the conference to attend for anyone interested in applying lean concepts to software and systems development.  The Lean Software and Systems Consortium is proud to bring together 50 of the best people in lean and kanban to share their field experiences, data and innovative thinking with you. Please join us for this important inaugural event! David J. Anderson Conference Chairman Announcing the full conference program We are pleased to announce the full program for the Lean Software and Systems Conference 2010 held April 21-23 in Atlanta, Georgia! Take a moment and explore the program to discover how lean, the next wave in software process, can benefit you. Register by March 31st and save! Kanban Track Discussions of theory and practice relating to limited Work in Progress (WIP) pull systems in the software development lifecycle and project management. “Teams struggle with constraints in one part of the system while excess capacity exists in another. There is always something ‘in progress.’ As a result, they have trouble shipping software” Arlo Belshee – Session: Single Piece Flow, A How-To Lean Business and Management Track Covering a wide range of Lean ideas and concepts applied to software project management. Learn about organizational transition, metrics, techniques used at large companies and more. “Policy Deployment in a lean organization is like navigating a ship – it starts with an understanding of the final destination, but leaders don’t forget that it’s their job to steer the ship along the way.” Mary Poppendieck – Session: What’s Wrong with Targets Lean Systems Engineering Track Lean ideas applied to Systems Engineering and Integration. Sessions include decision techniques, defining lean systems engineering, failure prediction and assuring success. “Relatively simple ideas from Systems Engineering can ’super-charge’ your Lean efforts and make your programs successful even in highly-challenging situations and with very-demanding customers.” James Sutton – Session: – Session: Lean System Engineering: Key to Accomplishing Big Things Experience Reports Track Field case studies in lean and kanban implementations presented by practitioners. “Kanban sets an expectation of flow, provides improved predictability and business agility, and enables a kaizen culture via bottleneck management, waste reduction and variability reduction, thus enabling teams to visualise and implement improvements.” David Joyce – Session: A Journey to Systemic Improvement (BBS Worldwide) Lean Engineering Practices Presenting emerging and evolving programming, testing and analysis practices. Topics include BDD, releasing per feature, deploying latent code, and managing complex workflows for incremental delivery.. “You’ll learn what programming processes help or hurt our ability to limit ‘red time’ and you’ll gain an appreciation for the visual cues that can help make you a better programmer” Joshua Kerievsky – Session: The Limited Red Society Leaning Over the Edge Track Explore innovative ideas, devil’s advocacy and topics on the periphery of Lean theory such as option theory and risk management. “Business capability analysis helps larger teams realize similar speed and quality results of smaller teams while remaining aligned with what is most valuable to the business.” Dennis Stevens - Session: Feeding the Agile Beast Keynote Don Reinertsen “The Easy Road to FLOW Goes through a Town named LEAN” If we seek to achieve flow, the ideas of lean manufacturing are a superb starting point. However, if we think of them as our final destination, they will ultimately only block our progress. Keynote Robert Charette “Risk, Lean Development & Profit: Getting Back to Basics” Lean is concerned with challenging assumptions and breaking through the constraints that limit us in what we see and do. By challenging our assumptions we open ourselves to new sources of discovery and innovation. Quick Links Register Now More About Us Contact Information Save 20% Register by March 31st and save!  Prices go up to $1250 after April 1st, including walk-in registrations. Offer Expires: March 31, 2010

from #lssc10: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-07

• LSSC Speaker Announcement hits newsire http://tiny.cc/puMWn – #lssc10 has an amazing line up of speakers! lean# kanban# agile# #
• LSSC Speaker Announcement hits newsire http://tiny.cc/puMWn – #lssc10 has an amazing line up of speakers! #lean #kanban #agile #
• RT @indomitablehef: One more time: Anyone else from Nashville going to @lssc10? I want to talk to you.. (trying to form a Lean/Kanban UG) #
• RT @jamesshore: @agilemanager Looking forward to talking more & seeing latest theory + experiences at #lssc10 #
• RT @agilemanager: To see the most sophisticated ALM mgmt too imaginable. Go see @alissonvale @ #lssc10 atlanta2010.leanssc.org #
• RT @alshalloway: #lssc10 kanban has matured so much in last year I'm excited about what'll show up in expereince reports. #
• RT @energizr: final draft of #qcon and #lssc10 presentation done. back to the kanban case study now #
• RT @jheintz: Finalized my trip to @lssc10 conference. Does too much #kanban violate a WIP limit? #

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from #lssc10: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-28

• LeanSSConference: Actionable advice by people with field exp presenting metrics and data http://bit.ly/10C9nb #lean #agile #kanban #lssc10 #
• RT @agilemanager: I hear @ourfounder might lead some personal kanban in the open space too #lssc10 #
• RT @kjscotland: Blogged: LeanSSC Atlanta 2010 and other Conferences http://bit.ly/9N3xBc #lssc10 #agile #lean #
• Experience report by Ryan Martens – PDCA: Beyond Simple Inspect and Adapt http://bit.ly/dC8P61 #lean #agile #lssc10 #
• @agilemanager i am so jealous, enjoy! in reply to agilemanager #
• RT @ourfounder: Up spending a morning working on @LSSC10 http://bit.ly/b36KSX Hoping to see many of you there! #
• RT @indomitablehef: Who else from Nashville is going to LSSC conference in Atl. in April? #lssc10 @lssc10 #kanban #
• RT @yuvalyeret: Who else from israel is going to the lean conference in Atlanta in April? #lssc10 #kanban #lean? Know about 3 of us already #

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from #lssc10: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-21

• LSSC Conference Agenda Published! http://atlanta2010.leanssc.org/agenda/ #lean #kanban #agile #lssc10 #
• Kanban at the BBC! David Joyce presents. LeanSoftware & Systems Conference 2010 http://bit.ly/9pl8sh #lean #agile #kanban #lssc10 #
• Mary Poppendieck on 'What’s wrong with targets' at LeanSoftware & Systems Conference 2010 http://bit.ly/dgkaBa #lean #agile #kanban #lssc10 #
• Alan Shalloway on 'Using the right vision to manage transition' at LSSC 2010 http://bit.ly/diUUIb #lean #agile #lssc10 #
• RT @agilemanager: Have you seen the program for #lssc10? wow! humbling! http://atlanta2010.leanssc.org/agenda/ #lean #kanban #
• RT @timwingfield: Blogged: Speaking at Lean Software and Systems Conference #lssc10 http://ping.fm/R0Dgq #

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from #lssc10: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-14

• Only 3 exhibit booths left for #lssc10! If you are interested in exhibit sponsorship contact atlanta2010@leanssc.org #kanban #lean #agile #

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Yuval Yeret and Erez Katzav – Scaling Amdocs PBG from team scrum to a multi-program portfolio using Lean and Kanban

Yuval Yeret and Erez Katzav will speak on “Scaling Amdocs PBG from team scrum to a multi-program portfolio using Lean and Kanban“.

PBG, The product development arm of Amdocs, a global telco company, introduced Scrum into its processes, with the help of consultants from AgileSparks, in order to improve its competitiveness. Along the way, it became clear that while Scrum is great at the team/sprint level, something more is required in order to optimize the whole system. Lean/Kanban turned out to be just what the doctor ordered. This company is currently rolling out Kanban at dozens of PO Teams for multiple dozens of Scrum Teams. This session will describe the journey from the perspective of the coaching team – identifying what’s missing, building the approach, “selling” the change within the organization, rolling it out, fine-tuning and the roadmap for the future.

Yuval is an Agile Coach at AgileSparks helping individuals and organization ease their path to Agility and Engineering excellence, focusing on Scrum, Lean, and effective R&D in general. Yuval comes from the R&D management world where he practiced what he now preaches.

Starting 1994, Yuval held various positions in IT and R&D, leading up to VP R&D of several IT technology startups where he introduced agile methodologies, as well as served as Product Owner on various occasions. Today, Yuval is a senior consultant in the Agilesparks team, engaged with several enterprise-scale global R&D organizations.

Yuval is a practicing Certified Scrum Master since 2007, a CSP and CSPO and is actively consulting multiple enterprise organizations. Yuval holds a BA in Math and Computer Sciences from the Tel Aviv Open University.
Find him at
http://www.linkedin.com/in/yuvalyeret
yuval@agilesparks.com
@yuvalyeret on Twitter

As Agile implementation manager for PBG Division, Erez implemented Kanban as a formal tool for managing the end to end life cycle of the PDLC for more than 50 products under PBG division.
Erez experienced a lot of variants of implementation using Kanban, depending on the nature of the products, the organization and the market that the product is serving.

As part of his role of implementation manager he’s responsible for the development of an in-house tool that combines the Agile approach with Kanban, enabling complex product development lifecycle that combine Scrum teams with Lean approach in an enterprise level.

Frank Vega – Scrum, XP, and Beyond

Frank Vega will talk on “Scrum, XP, and Beyond“.

While specific business needs addressed from one development team to another vary, there are core challenges they share. To address these challenges many of us are seeking to increase our knowledge and understanding of lean-agile principles through personal hands-on experience gained from applying them in our software development processes.

Frank Vega is an IT/IS professional with 20+ years experience; the last seven as a software architect and lean-agile developer/team lead developing applications that perform structural analysis of engineered wood products used in constructing residential homes. Prior to that were six years as an independent self-employed contractor providing custom application development support to clients in the environmental, engineering, telecommunications, cable, and computer-based training fields.

His passion for learning has been focused over the last six years developing a solid understanding of lean principles and knowledge-based product development along with kanban (queuing systems) software development, agile processes, and eXtreme programming (XP) practices utilizing pattern-oriented software architectures and domain-driven and object-oriented designs. He is a member of the Lean Software Systems Consortium and active in his local Agile-Denver group, International Association of Software Architects (IASA) Denver Chapter, and Denver Visual Studio .Net User Group. See his LinkedIn profile for latest information.

Tim Wingfield – Lean Lessons Learned: Our Experiences Moving to Kanban

Tim Wingfield speaks on “Lean Lessons Learned: Our Experiences Moving to Kanban“.

Over the last year and a half we’ve moved our development teams and some of our clients into Lean development practices utilizing Kanban to deliver more value in a shorter amount of time. This session covers our experiences with Kanban and the practical applications of Lean development practices as we employed them. I’ll share our successes and failures while our 4 to 8 person teams tailored our approach for each client after determining what worked and didn’t work in those clients’ environments. You’ll learn the real-world benefits and challenges of changing to Lean and Kanban, and why they fundamentally changed the way I approach projects.

Tim has been involved in web design and development for over 12 years and is currently the Director of Application Development at Reflex Design & Technology in Columbus, OH. Tim has a wide range of knowledge in .Net but focuses on the user interface and the user experience in ASP.Net applications. Recently he has put more time into studying lean development processes and how to more efficiently create quality software. He also has a budding love affair with Ruby, and has done a cannonball into the Rails pool. In what time is left over, Tim enjoys coaching his sons’ hockey teams, playing a little hockey himself, and traveling with his family.

Troy Tuttle – Why Kanban

Troy Tuttle will speak on “Why Kanban“.

Kanban is receiving a large amount of attention recently. What does it offer compared to other established agile approaches? Answering that question may require you to hit the “reset” button on previously held biases and assumptions.

Kanban blends Lean thought with ideas from first generation agile methodologies. To get started with Kanban, we will examine what steps are necessary to establish a transparent, work-limited, pull system. We will highlight the perils of allowing too much work-in-progress and how it affects development performance. Once established, Kanban teams need only a few metrics and tools to monitor their performance and improvement.

Troy Tuttle is a self-described pragmatic agilist, and Kanban practitioner, with more than a decade of experience in delivering software in the finance and health industries and as a consultant. As a team leader he has mentored teams on improving their approach to iterative development though achieving technical proficiency. He advocates teams improve their performance through pursuit of better practices like continuous integration and automated testing. Troy is the founder of the Kansas City Limited WIP Society and is a regular speaker at local area groups on team related topics. He currently works as a Project Lead Consultant with AdventureTech Group of Kansas City, KS.

Dennis Stevens – Feeding the Agile Beast

Dennis Stevens is talking on “Feeding the Agile Beast“.

Kanban is being used by agile development teams to produce software faster and with higher quality than ever before. While agile works for small teams achieving these same benefits at the enterprise level has failed. Agile’s delivery cadence drives transparency which compels learning and adaptation. Within small teams, this learning and adaptation happens in real time. At scale, the adaptation and learning happens at different times resulting in a kind of intellectual version control problem that corrupts progress across teams.

Business capability analysis supports the cadence of agile development and has proven an effective control mechanism for these larger teams. This helps larger teams realize similar speed and quality results of smaller teams while remaining aligned with what is most valuable to the business.

Dennis Stevens has been helping organizations improve economic outcomes through improved technology alignment and software development since the mid-1980’s. Starting in 2000 he has been focused on developing business analysis and project management methods that leverage the incremental and iterative cadence of Lean and Agile delivery. His approach to capability analysis was the basis for Microsoft’s Business Architecture methodology, was published in Harvard Business Review in June 2008, and has contributed to improved performance in dozens of projects delivering over $200 million in value. Dennis has been certified as a Project Management Professional, in Lean Value Stream mapping, as an OPM3 Certified Consultant and a Certified Scrum Master. Dennis originally attended Florida State University on a violin scholarship and eventually earned his degree in Organizational Psychology and Development. He served as a US Marine during Desert Storm and earned a Naval Commendation Medal during Operation Fiery Vigil in the Philippines.