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Friday, January 06, 2012

Kanban for IT Services & Operations - Dearborn, MI Mar 12-13, 2012

David J. Anderson’s

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

                                                                                                                with Dominica DeGrandis (instructor)

Software only has a shot at reaping value after it is functioning in production.  People who write software and people who deploy and maintain software can realize many benefits from a strong alliance.  This 2-day Kanban for Ops training introduces practices that help unify teams and promote cross-functional collaboration.

We begin by looking at the demand on the organization, followed by discussions and interactive exercises on the Kanban Method.  Also covered are ways to manage risks related to the increasing complexity around software delivery and support.  Attendees play the “Kanban for Ops” version of the GetKanban game.

Working in small teams, class attendees will analyze and design a Kanban system that they can bring back to the organization to implement right away.

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 book.

Class Schedule

Day 1 Kanban Mechanics
- Demand Analysis
- Workflow Mapping
- Visualization
- Work Item Types
- Work-in-progress Limits
- Classes of Service
- Kanban Simulation Game - pre-beta version customized for Operations

Day 2 Kanban Progression
- Kanban System design
- Operations Review
- Case Studies
- Risk Management
- Metrics
- Service Level Agreements (SLA)
- Variability and predictability
- How to Get Started with Kanban

Is this for you?

This training provides a useful perspective for improving work done on the periphery of software development.  If ever-more frequent deliveries from software development are increasing pressure on your teams and creating bottlenecks in the delivery process, look at Kanban to extend agility and balance to IT services and operations teams.  From Data Administrative Services to Deployment & Release Managers to Help Desk, this class covers beginning to intermediate level material.

Register today!
Special price due to the Agile & Beyond Conference  only $975 per person.
EARLY BIRD SPECIAL $800 per person!

Enter Discount code: OPSEARLYBIRD
expires Feb 28, 2012



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About the presenter

Dominica specializes in Kanban for IT Services and Operations - with teams interacting with software development. She spent her first 15 years in software engineering deeply embedded in Development teams performing builds, deployments and environment maintenance. She has worked in organizations of all sizes, from the US Army, Boeing, and AT&T to small start-ups. Dominica first worked for David Anderson at Corbis in 2006 where she helped deliver the first implementation of Kanban for software engineering in the US. Adept at leading teams performing Configuration Management and Release Management, Dominica found a passion for improving the way development and operations teams work together.

Location:

Dearborn, MI USA

Venue:

THE DEARBORN INN
20301 Oakwood Blvd | Dearborn | MI 48124
313 271-2700 | http://www.dearborninnmarriott.com

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Kanban Leadership Workshop Barcelona, Spain - Mar 19-21, 2012

This 3-day leadership/coaching workshop with David is limited to just 12 people.

This workshop is for anyone tasked with leading a change initiative in their organization or at a client organization in 2012. 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

Don’t miss out! Read what others are saying about this workshop.

- Rachel Davies, Kanban Coaching Insights
- Karen Graves, Kanban Evolution
- Armond Mehrabian, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

Register today!
Regular price 4000 USD per person
EARLY BIRD SPECIAL 3000 USD per person!

Enter Discount code: BARCELONA
expires Feb 19, 2012


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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: Barcelona, SPAIN
Venue TBD

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Kanban Leadership Workshop   San Diego, CA - Mar 6-8, 2012

This 3-day leadership/coaching workshop with David is limited to just 12 people.

This workshop is for anyone tasked with leading a change initiative in their organization or at a client organization in 2012. 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

Don’t miss out! Read what others are saying about this workshop.

- Rachel Davies, Kanban Coaching Insights
- Karen Graves, Kanban Evolution
- Armond Mehrabian, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

Register today!
Regular price $3500 per person
EARLY BIRD SPECIAL $2800 per person!

Enter Discount code: DIEGOBIRD
expires Feb 14, 2012


Discount Code:

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: San Diego, CA
Venue TBD

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Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Kanban Weekly Roundup - Dec 20, 2011

                                                                                            By Dominica DeGrandis

Our last Roundup of 2011 includes two stories from the trenches – one on evolving standups and the
other on scheduling deployments.  Also included is a concise list of events and resources to end the year. 
Peaceful holidays everyone!

News

Sami Honkonen (senior consultant at Reaktor), captures a story of evolving standups in a recent post, “Kanban Daily Revisited”. 
Worth noting - they formalize notifications by including them in their standup agenda.
http://www.samihonkonen.fi/2011/11/kanban-daily-revisited/

Bryan Wheeler identifies some remarkable results in his post, “Using Kanban for Deployment Scheduling”, while deploying to production twice a day.
http://development.msnbc.msn.com/_nv/more/section/archive?author=bryanwheeler

Tools

Digite continues their Swift-Kanban training series on Dec 22, 2011 with a session on administration.
http://www.digite.com/swift-kanban-training-series?utm_source=streamsend&utm_medium=email&utm_content=15286451&utm_campaign=Invitation%20for%20Swift-Kanban%20Training%20Series%21

Events

Agile and Beyond Conference - Dearborn, MI.  Mar 10, 2012
http://agileandbeyond.org/


Lean Kanban Southern Europe - Madrid, May 9-10, 2012.
#lkse12

Lean Software Systems Conference – Boston, May 2012
http://lssc12.leanssc.org/program/

Resource Reminders

Kanbanops yahoo group for IT Services & Operations practitioners
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/kanbanops

Kanbandev yahoo group for Development
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/kanbandev/

Limited WIP Society
http://www.limitedwipsociety.org/

Lean Kanban University
http://www.leankanbanuniversity.com/




Please contact .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) with questions.

 

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Thursday, December 15, 2011

Kanban for IT Services & Operations - Orange County, CA Jan 26-27, 2012

David J. Anderson’s

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

with Dominica DeGrandis (instructor)

Kanban is a framework for changing, for improving, the way an organization works together.  If ever-more frequent deliveries from software development are increasing pressure on your teams and creating bottlenecks in the delivery process, look at Kanban to extend agility and balance to IT services and operations teams.

This 2-day Kanban training class uses an interactive teaching method to help students gain an understanding of Kanban Pull Systems and how to apply them to IT services and Operations.  Working in small teams, class attendees will analyze and design a kanban system implementation.

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 book.

Register today!
$1200 per person



Discount Code:

Because the value of software is achieved only after being deployed to production, the class begins by studying and mapping the workflow across your organization.  You’ll learn how to improve predictability and therefore increase customer satisfaction.  You’ll learn how to use 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 handle increasing complexity around software delivery and support, take 2 days and come along. 

What you will learn

Day 1 Kanban Mechanics
- Demand Analysis
- Workflow Mapping
- Visualization
- Work Item Types
- WIP Limits
- Classes of Service
- Kanban Simulation Game customized for operations

Day 2 Kanban Progression
- Kanban System design
- Operations Review
- Case Studies
- Service Level Agreements (SLA)
- Variability and predictability
- How to Get Started with Kanban
- Economic Cost Model for Lean
- Metrics

About the presenter

Dominica specializes in Kanban for IT Services and Operations - with teams interacting with software development. She spent her first 15 years in software engineering deeply embedded in Development teams performing builds, deployments and environment maintenance. She has worked in organizations of all sizes, from the US Army, Boeing, and AT&T to small start-ups. Dominica first worked for David Anderson at Corbis in 2006 where she helped deliver the first implementation of Kanban for software engineering in the US. Adept at leading teams performing Configuration Management and Release Management, Dominica found a passion for improving the way development and operations teams work together.

Is this for you?

If you would like to learn how Kanban, Pull Systems and Lean, can provide a useful perspective for improving work done on the periphery of software engineering and you are performing IT Services or Operations, this class is for you. From data administrative services to deployment/release managers to help desk, this class covers beginning to intermediate level material.

Location:

Newport beach, CA, USA

Venue:

Fashion Island
451 Newport Center Dr.
Newport Beach, CA 92660

 

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