David Hussman “Agile Journeys: How Did We Get Here and Where are We Going?”

Alexey Krivitsky — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 13:45:15 +0000

The Talk “Agile Journeys: How Did We Get Here and Where are We Going?”.

David Hussman

David teaches and coaches the adoption and improvement of agility as a delivery tool. His work includes helping companies of all sizes all over the world. Sometimes he is pairing with developers and testers, while other times he is helping to invent, evolve and plan the delivery of all types of products and projects. David also spends a great deal of time helping leaders at all levels find ways to pragmatically use agility as another way to grow and innovate their business.

Prior to working as a fulltime coach, David spent years building software in a variety of domains: digital audio, digital biometrics, medical, financial, retail, and education to name a few. David now leads DevJam, a company composed of agile collaborators. As mentors and practitioners, DevJam focuses on agility as a tool to help people and companies improve their software production skills. DevJam provides seasoned leaders that strive to pragmatically match technology, people, and processes to create better and cooler products in competitive cycles.

Along with teaching and coaching, David participates in conferences around the world. He has continuously publishes and has contributed to several books and many publications. He has helped create agile curriculum for The University of Minnesota and Capella University.

For more information, check out the DevJam website www.devjam.com

The talk “Agile Journeys: How Did We Get Here and Where are We Going?”

Adoption and adaption of agile methods is growing wildly. As a full time coach, working across disciplines and borders, I am fortunate to see the practice and evolution of existing practices as well as a continuous emergence of new practices and idea. While some teams are new to agile methods, other teams are challenging the status quo of big A agile. Both groups are filled with a mixture of success and struggles.

If you are interested in hearing real world stories of what’s working, what’s not, and what’s new, please show up with an open mind and a blank page or three for notes. As story telling is great tool for learning, think of a few experiences and stories from your agile journey(s) which you might want to share. My coaching continuously teaches me the importance of listening to and learning from the stories of the agile community I coach and the agilists I meet. I plan to share a pile of stories and ask you to share some of yours.

“Lean Software Development – Practitioners’ Workshop”

Alexey Krivitsky — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 20:40:42 +0000

Trainers: Mary and Tom Poppendieck
Dates: 6-7 October (a two-day class)

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About the Trainers
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As global competitiveness comes to the software development industry, the search is on for a better way to create first-class software rapidly, repeatedly, and reliably. Lean initiatives in manufacturing, logistics, and services have led to dramatic improvements in cost, quality and delivery time; can they do the same for software development? The short answer is “Absolutely!”

Of the many methods that have arisen to improve software development, Lean is emerging as one that is grounded in decades of work understanding how to make processes better. Lean thinking focuses on giving customers what they want, when and where the want it, without a wasted motion or wasted minute.

This intensive two day workshop aimed at senior developers and team leads, and will help you apply lean principles such as Rapid Response, Constant Learning, Built-in Quality, Local Responsibility and Global Optimization to software development.

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Learn first hand from Lean thought-leaders Mary and Tom Poppendieck how to apply Lean Principles to your organization.

Mary and Tom have pioneered the application of Lean Thinking to software development and documented their principles in their books:

Agenda
Systems Thinking

See the Whole
Put on Customer Glasses
Value Stream Maps

Technical Excellence

Correct by Construction
Basic Disciplines

Reliable Delivery

Managing Workflow
Scheduling

Great People

Meaningful Work
Leadership Roles

Relentless Improvement

Seeing Problems
Solving Problems

The Journey

Making Change Happen
Aligning Mental Models

Learning outcomes:

How to look at your process from a customer’s point of view and identify waste.
What’s wrong with software testing and what you have to do to fix it.
How to frame risk and rethink scheduling to permit confident promise-dating and reliable delivery.
The traits of people who work in the most effective system development organizations.
The leadership roles that support the lean framework.
Tools for solving problems that everyone in the organization can use.
How to change when change is hard.

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David Hussman “Agile Journeys: How Did We Get Here and Where are We Going?”

“Lean Software Development – Practitioners’ Workshop”