I’m enjoying lots of tweets from the
Lean/Kanban conference yesterday and today. It’s new and fun to “attend” a conference from a twitter-remove, and I still wish I could have attended in person. From all reports, it's a wonderful conference.
Following the #lkconf thread, I’ve read much discussion about the new
Lean Software & Systems Consortium (LSCC) and the organizers' intention to provide a certification. I’ve read that Lean is a “mindset” shift, not a methodology. [Hmmm, where have I heard that before?] "Unlike Agile" is the
sotto voce subtext I surmise.
In one tweet, Aaron Sanders...
Jack Milunsky wrote about the Top Ten Activities of a Product Owner. In reply, a number of folks commented that they didn’t like the idea of a Product Owner attending Sprint Retrospectives.
Doc List writes about one of my favorite activities on his blog, Circle of Questions. I added a few comments there as well.
Jim Shore posted on his blog about two courses, The Art of Agile Planning and The Art of Agile Development, that he and I will take to Europe this spring. He's put in photos and and comments from evaluations when we held the class last October. Participants said nice things, like "The facilitators were excellent! I really enjoyed the 'jump in and swim' approach to applying what we learned as we went."
Since Jim did such a great job, I'm not going to try to duplicate it. I'll just send you here to read about it.
In this video from the ÖreDev conference, I present some ideas about the changing role of managers in organizations that have adopted Agile methods.