SeaSPIN Monthly Meeting
Tuesday, March 2
Note: Since Construx had a Scheduling Conflict, we will meet at NetObjectives for the March Meeting. This is a one-time alteration.
Net Objectives, 275 118th Ave SE, Suite 115, Bellevue, WA
Food & networking from 5:45 to 6:45 (pizza, salad, soda )
Announcements from 6:45 to 6:55
Presentation from 6:55 to 7:55
Doors close at 8:30
Starting Kanban on Your Team
Kanban is proving to be an effective agile process for teams. It has helped teams solve many of the problems teams have faced with Scrum because of its focus on a well-defined workflow and an emphasis on managing the amount of work in progress (WIP) the team is working on. What is not as well appreciated is the fact that Kanban can be implemented in a smoother transition than Scrum can because it does not require well formed teams to use it. This talk provides a brief overview of Kanban as well as the steps needed to start your Kanban implementation. This approach both allows for using Kanban where one might think Agile methods would be difficult to implement as well as achieve greater results in less time than one would expect.
Biography
Alan Shalloway is the founder and CEO of Net Objectives. With almost 40 years of experience, Alan is an industry thought leader. He helps companies transition to Lean and Agile methods enterprise-wide as well teaches courses in Lean, Kanban, Scrum, Design Patterns, and Object-Orientation. Alan has developed training and coaching methods for Lean-Agile that have helped his clients achieve long-term, sustainable productivity gains. He is a popular speaker at prestigious conferences worldwide. He is the primary author of Design Patterns Explained: A New Perspective on Object-Oriented Design, Lean-Agile Pocket Guide for Scrum Teams, Lean-Agile Software Development: Achieving Enterprise Agility and is currently writing Essential Skills for the Agile Developer. He has a Masters in Computer Science from M.I.T. as well as a Masters in Mathematics from Emory University.