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Posted by Mike Bria on May 20, 2009
During the first week of May, the first organized conference focusing on Lean & Kanban was held in Miami. Mike Cottmeyer was present and used his popular blog Leading Agile to provide a relatively comprehensive play-by-play look into what occurred there.
The ideas of Lean have been brewing in the agile community for years now, and the more recent introduction of Kanban as a tool to apply Lean principles in software development organizations has brought real attention to the topic. It brings many questions to the table, particularly related to understanding what Lean and Kanban are all about and how they correspond to familiar concepts of Scrum and XP, as well as how Lean and Kanban contribute to our ability to advance Agile in our industry. What's special?
The Lean/Kanban Conference was structured to help shed light on these questions (and more) and Mike Cottmeyer has provided a great resource for the many people interested who did not attend. On his blog he kept track, nearly real-time, of all that occurred over the 2 day single-tracked conference, presented to the reader from Mike's P.O.V as he experiences it.
Mike's entries summarize as follows:
Possibly most interesting is an entry Mike posted a few days after the conference where he reflects on the experience and presents a good perspective on how Lean/Kanban fits into the "Agile world".
Other interesting experience reports and reflections available include those by John Heintz, Alan Shalloway, and Dean Leffingwell, among others. Further, many of the topics have launched some very good discussions in both the Lean and Kanban Yahoo! Groups, all worth taking some time to check out.
Also, stay tuned for InfoQ's video recordings of many of these sessions, to be posted soon.
Learning to be a Good Product Owner: Foundation Skills
VersionOne is recognized by Agile practitioners as the leader in Agile project management tools. Companies such as Adobe, BBC, CNN, Dow, HP, IBM, Sony and 3M have turned to VersionOne to help deliver greater value to their customers.
Another great thing about this conference was the usage of Twitter. Mike started this, but many people joined in. I was miles away following the #lk2009 tag every half hour. It was insightful and valuable. It wasn't until the 3rd day that the non-attendee noise got in the way of following along.
Note for future conferences (Agile2009?), create a tag for each stage and tweet away. Keep it real-time. It will help many others get value out of the conference and spread the value of these agile events. Maybe the Agile Alliance or InfoQ should pre-plan and structure this?
Great addition, and idea!
Brian Marick takes us through a quick tour of the most important values and challenges to adopting Agile successfully (they aren't the typical challenges and values we hear in the community).
The line between development and architecture is tricky. Does it exist at all? Is an ivory tower actually needed? There's a balance in the middle, but how do you move from developer to architect?
The word 'authority' sometimes produces an allergic response in hard-line agilists. Freedom and authority – both are bad if misused and both are good if used in right spirit for a noble cause.
"Getting Started with Grails" brings you up to speed on this modern web framework. Companies as varied as LinkedIn, Wired, and Taco Bell are all using Grails. Are you ready to get started as well?
Those familiar with only ITIL V2 often scoff at the thought that ITIL could serve as a governance framework for SOA. With ITIL V3, the focus of the framework shifted towards service-orientation.
SpringSource CTO Adrian Colyer discusses AspectJ, SpringSource's dm Server and tc Server products, OSGi and Scrum.
Heroku's Adam Wiggins talks about Rails, Background Jobs, Add-Ons, Ruby, and how Heroku manages to work around Ruby's inefficiencies using Erlang and other languages.
For Grady Booch the foundation of a good architecture is patterns, SOA being just one of many patterns. In this Second Life presentation, Booch attempts to bring more clarity on what architecture is.
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