Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Kanban Training Class - San Francisco Bay Area, CA Sept 12-13, 2011

David J. Anderson’s

Official “Kanban - Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business” Class

Masa K. Maeda (instructor)

This intensive 2-day Kanban training class provides an introduction to Lean, Pull Systems and Kanban and will explain how established industrial engineering theory can apply to software development process.

This class is based on David J. Anderson’s book “Kanban - Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business”. Attendees of the class will receive a copy of the new book.

Participants in the class will learn how to use the simple process of limiting work-in-progress as a driver of change. Kanban is a change management method and a different approach to striking agreements between IT and the business.

You’ll learn how to define the policies that constrain the collaborative game of software development. You’ll learn how to use those policies to manage risk and to reset negotiations and recast them as collaborative problem solving.

Used effectively, Kanban will change you and your organization. If your workplace has been stagnating and you are looking for new ideas to unleash productivity, innovation, collaboration and creativity, take 2 days and come along.

What you will learn

About the presenter

Masa is an internationally recognized figure in the agile and lean communities who has focused most of his career on making organizations successful through the balance between value-to-customer, value-to-enterprise, and quality. He has brought Kanban, Scrum, lean, and agile to organizations of diverse size in three continents. With 25 years of experience, his career path has taken him from Fortune 100 to startups from diverse industries in USA, Japan, Mexico and Panama. Before focusing entirely on Lean and Agile, Masa worked at Apple Inc. and was founding team member at several startup companies in Silicon Valley in the fields of genomics/proteomics, online entertainment and online socialization.

Is this for you?

If you are a software development executive, project manager, development manager, project lead or developer and you would like to learn how Lean, Pull Systems and Kanban can provide a useful perspective to consider the entire value chain beyond the pure software development, this Kanban class is for you!

Location:

San Francisco Bay Area (Belmont - short drive between San Francisco and San José airports), CA USA

Venue:

Hyatt Summerfield Suites Belmont
400 Concourse Way, Belmont CA 94404
Between San Francisco and San Jose airports.
http://www.belmont.summerfieldsuites.hyatt.com

Wednesday, July 06, 2011

Kanban Leadership Workshop Washington DC - Sept 6-8, 2011

This 3-day leadership/coaching workshop with David is the last one being offered in the US through the end of 2011.

This workshop is for anyone tasked with leading a change initiative in their or a client organization in 2011. It is suitable for managers, process engineers, change agents, experienced Agile, Lean, or project management coaches and consultants, existing Kanban practitioners with 1 year of experience, and those who have previously taken David J. Anderson’s Kanban class and are actively using Kanban at work. Attendees are expected to be familiar with the content of the book, “Kanban - Successful Evolutionary Change for your Technology Business.

These intensive 3 day workshops are intended to transfer the knowledge and skills to enable you to lead Lean transformations using the Kanban Method

Attending these workshops is one way to get high quality face-time with David Anderson and to get his personal recommendation that you can use with your clients or employer. If you’d like to become a recommended Kanban coach or an approved Kanban trainer licensed to teach our official Kanban training material in 2011 then attending this workshop is essential.

More than 100 participants attended these workshops on 5 continents in 2010. Don’t miss out! Learn to coach Kanban initiatives now!

The 2011 price for this workshop is $3000 USD per person!

Register today!
Regular price $3000 per person
EARLY BIRD SPECIAL $2700 per person!

A copy of the book will be supplied upon registration. Attendees will maximize the value if they are already familiar with the material.

The intent is to have an interactive collaborative session designed to facilitate knowledge sharing and learning. Attendees should come prepared to discuss their own experiences with Kanban and challenging situations they’ve faced with change initiatives at clients or employers

The workshop will open with a round table of introductions and shared Kanban experience. Each participant will be asked for a list of questions they’d like answered over the 3 day session and from this a topic backlog will be built. David will augment this backlog with essential topics and foundational material. The agenda for the remaining time will then be set to insure the fullest of coverage and the maximum value for all participants. The focus will be on shared experience and discussion of the hard questions that clients and team members ask coaches during the introduction of Lean ideas through the use of a kanban pull system. The workshop will include the use of the GetKanban game simulation and discussion of its value as a teaching aid.

The goal is to enable participants to go back into the field and successfully coach Agile/Lean transitions using the Kanban approach. Every workshop is different because of the unique experiences of each participant and their specific focus and desired outcomes. Each participant will received a personal recommendation from David J. Anderson as a result of participating in the class.

Kanban offers agile and project management coaches another tool in their transformation and coaching toolbox. Kanban is proving to be a facilitator of evolutionary change with low resistance and an enabler of accelerated high levels of organizational maturity.

For more details download the PDF flyer

Location: Washington Hilton http://www1.hilton.com/en_US/hi/hotel/DCAWHHH-Washington-Hilton-District-of-Columbia/index.do