I've been making some changes at AgileManagement.Net to make it easier for readers to find information and follow new posts. I've created separate blog pages with separate RSS feeds for Lean, specifically Kanban, and Agile+CMMI.

For now the existing Agile Management blog will continue to aggregate all the content. Later I will reduce it to Management topics only. However, I will maintain the existing RSS feed for both the home page and the Agile Management blog. The RSS feed will continue to aggregate everything that is posted to this site. The new RSS feeds should enable aggregators to be more focused. Kanban sites can pull the Channel Kanban RSS feed while CMMI sites can pull the Channel CMMI RSS feed.

In a similar vein to the Lean & Kanban 2009 conference I am thinking of pulling together an Agile & CMMI event. I really feel that a small focused event is needed to kickstart the Agile CMMI community and energize potential adopters.

After some initial market research via my Agile Management Yahoo! group and Hillel Glazer's Agile CMMI LinkedIn group and Twitter, it looks like we are targeting early December or mid-January somewhere in Florida.

Please leave comments indicating which dates you would prefer, which location (a) Tampa, (b) Orlando, (c) Miami, and please recommend anyone you feel should be an invited speaker at such an event. Would you like 1.5 days or 2.5 days and how much of that time should be dedicated to open space?

Exciting news about the Lean & Kanban 2009 Conference released today...

Quite simply the greatest ever assembled group of experts in Lean software development will be convening in Miami in May to explore the frontiers of agile and lean in software development. This is your chance to be a part of the new wave in agile development and management practices.

Speakers include: Alan Shalloway, Dean Leffingwell, Peter Middleton, James Sutton, Corey Ladas, Karl Scotland, Amit Rathore, Sterling Mortensen, Aaron Sanders, Rob Hathaway, Alisson Vale, Max Keeler, Linda Cook, Eric Landes, Eric Willeke, Chris Shinkle and David Laribee.

Pricing - new super early bird rate $550 (for all 3 days), plus single day rates for Lean Day (May 6th) $335 (incl evening reception), and Kanban Day (May 7th) $295. Register now at http://www.leankanbanconference.com/

I've been busy finalizing the speaker roster and program for the Lean & Kanban 2009 Conference in Miami May 6th-8th.

We've finalized our speaker list. We will have key note speeches from me, Alan Shalloway and Dean Leffingwell. And main conference sessions from Karl Scotland, Amit Rathore, Corey Ladas, Alisson Vale, Peter Middleton, James Sutton, Rob Hathaway, Eric Landes, Eric Willeke, Chris Shinkle, Max Keeler & Linda Cook, Sterling Mortensen, Aaron Sanders and David Laribee. While there might be other leaders in Lean applied to software development that I'd love to have present at our event, I am confident this is the best line-up of thinkers and practitioners of Lean in software development ever assembled. Be sure to sign up soon as the numbers at the event are strictly limited.

Download the full program of titles and abstracts and speaker bios.

Due to demand from members of the kanbandev group I have created a Lean Kanban conference to bring together the community to discuss and extend the state-of-the-art in using Lean and Kanban in software development and full project lifecycle management.

Registration is now open http://www.leankanbanconference.com/
Download Draft Agenda and Promotional Flyer (PDFs)

The event is limited to 125 folks. We expect it to sell out. We've selected a superb venue the Mandarin Oriental Miami located on South Beach at Brickell Quay right on the water.

http://www.mandarinoriental.com/miami/

The SEI has released a Technical Note that I co-authored with Mike Konrad, Hillel Glazer, Jeff Dalton, and Sandy Shrum. This paper was written almost a year ago and went through a lot of revision and review. We published a public draft at the SEPG conference in March 2008 and held a panel session with all the authors to discuss the content. The paper is finally complete and published. It's a 48 page document. This is no lightweight look at Agile and CMMI. It's a very in-depth analysis that looks at why people perceived incompatibilities and why the two communities were not mixing or understanding each other's point of view. I suspect it will be for some time to come, the definitive statement on Agile + CMMI.

Here are the official announcements...

Here is my key note speech from Falando em Agile 2008 in Sao Paulo this week.

[Download Achieving Success with Agile Management in PDF]

I'll be repeating my one-day Zen of Agile Management workshop from QCon in London this past March, at Agile Practices in Orlando Florida on November 10th and again the following week at QCon in San Francisco on Tuesday November 18th.

In both locations the class is in the well tried and tested one-day format. This class has been universally well received since I first introduced it at VS Live in Orlando in March 2006. I've updated the material only slightly since London this past March to include my new prioritization approach. So don't miss out! Sign up for one of these conferences and experience the most comprehensive class in managing agile teams and projects. Here is the abstract for the class...