Saturday, April 10, 2010

Reminder #lssc10 Technical Advisory Board Meeting April 20th

This is a reminder that attendees for the Lean Software & Systems Conference in Atlanta, April 21st to 23rd, are cordially invited to the Lean Software & Systems Consortium Technical Advisory Board Meeting.

This meeting is open to conference attendees, as the Technical Advisory Board, is interested in hearing opinions from interested parties and the market. What do you want the Lean Software & Systems Consortium to do for you? The Chairman of the Technical Advisory Board, Donald Reinertsen has put together an agenda for the meeting…

Technical Advisory Board Agenda

0800              Introductions

0830              Define goals for the day, agree upon agenda

0900              Develop mission statement for TAB and its goals (What is success?)

0945               Break

1000               Develop concept of operation for TAB

                                    Membership size and demographics

                                    Meeting frequency and locations

                                    Organization into working groups

                                    Benefits of membership

                                    Responsibilities of membership

                                    Expected time commitments and contributions

                                    Key group norms

1200               Lunch

1245                Group discussion of potential work output of TAB

                                    How to contribute to visibility of LSSC

                                    How to contribute to LSSC’s Body of Knowledge

                                    How to contribute to certification program

                                    How to keep LSSC at the leading edge

1415                Break

1430               Divide into subgroups focused on particular goals to identify specific actions to be taken, people responsible, and target completion dates.

1600               Subgroups report back and group discussion of plans

1630               End of meeting

Monday, June 01, 2009

Bay Area Lean

Amit Rathore has some momentum for Lean in the Bay Area. So far 43 members and regular meetings scheduled. Kanban fans should consider convening Limited WIP Society meetings this way. I wonder if there is scope in the Bay Area for a 2nd group in San Francisco? Technorati tag: Amit+Rathore, Lean, Kanban, Software+Development, Project+Management, Software+Engineering

Announcing the Limited WIP Society

Since the Lean & Kanban 2009 conference there has been growing interest in Kanban. Every day there seem to be more blog posts and Twitter traffic than ever. There is so much new interest in Kanban that a few of us, led by Rob Hathaway, in London, got together to form the Limited WIP Society. It represents an loose institutional home for all things related to Kanban in software engineering process.

We’re not trying to compete with the Lean Software & Systems Consortium. In fact the Limited WIP Society won’t have any formal membership though we’d certainly encourage the spontaneous affiliation of group meetings. The London based folks have partnered with the Extreme Tuesday Club to have a monthly meeting of the Limited WIP Society. If you are curious about Kanban and want to learn together with others who are also trying it out and experimenting with limiting their WIP, then get yourself along to the meeting, or if you aren’t in or close to London, consider establishing a group in your home town or city. If you are thinking of setting up a Limited WIP Society gathering in your area drop me an email and let me know, or post details to the Limited WIP Society web site. Technorati tag: David+Anderson, Lean, Kanban, LimitedWIPSociety