Lean Software Austin - Austin's Community of Practice for Lean Software Development

Austin's Lean Software Community

Introduction to Kanban

Monday, August 17, 2009 from 06:00 PM to 08:00 PM

Kanban is our focus for this meeting, and a handful of things that it entails for software development, including pull systems for software work management, visual management, work in process limits, and team organization.

We’ll also be talking about Kanban in relation to Scrum; how it differs and how it can be used in agile software development, and how Lean principles in general can be used to spot problems and improvements in software development processes, from waterfall to agile.

Location:

Overwatch Systems

5301 Southwest Parkway Austin, TX 78735 (map)

Meeting Leader:

Scott Bellware, Ampersand GT

http://ampgt.com

Scott is a software product designer, developer, manager, and agile coach living in Austin, TX. He speaks at software industry conferences and teaches agile development practices and software production methodologies in workshops in the US, Canada, and Europe. Scott is the founder of the Lean Software Austin and AgileATX communities of software practitioners. He is the organizer of the Monospace, ALT.NET Open Space, and Continuous Improvement conferences in Austin, and has served as the content chairman for the agile development track at the DevTeach conferences, as well as the chairman of the INETA Speaker Committee. Scott is a recipient of Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional award.

Lean Software Austin Meetings

Lean Software Austin meetings are chalk talks and discussions facilitated by leaders in the Austin software community with a depth and breadth of experience in software product engineering and development, and who exercise a deep commitment to all aspects of the software craft.

About Lean Software Austin

Lean Software Austin is Austin's community of lean software practitioners, exploring topics in software engineering and software management, kanban, the theory of constraints, learning organizations, product design, work design, product management, and systemic, holistic approaches to software product development and production.