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Kanban and Accelerated Emergence of High Maturity

Presented by David Anderson on Jul 20, 2010 Length 00:59:18     Download: MP3
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Process & Practices,
Architecture & Design
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Stories & Case Studies ,
Agile
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Lean Software & Systems Conference ,
Lean ,
Kanban
 

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Summary
David Anderson discusses the role of Kanban in bringing accelerated high maturity in organizations from the business and process adoption perspective, without having a formal process definition, presenting evidence of organizations achieving high maturity in very short time (3-9 months), and considering the cultural factors in Kanban success.

Bio
David Anderson is the author of "Agile Management for Software Engineering", a signatory of the PM Declaration of Interdependence and a founder of the APLN, an original member of the "Singapore Project" where Feature Driven Development emerged, and a founder and vice president of the Lean Software and Systems Consortium.

About the conference
Lean Software and Systems Conference 2010 — the place to learn about Lean, Pull Systems and Kanban. Understand how established industrial engineering theory can apply to software development process. The conference will assist organizations that depend on software – from start-ups to those that build complex, software intensive products, systems & services – with the application of Lean Thinking throughout the enterprise.

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