June 1 Meeting
Construx Software, 10900 NE 8th St Suite 1350, Bellevue, WA
Food & networking from 5:45 to 6:15 (pizza, salad, soda )
Announcements from 6:15 to 6:30
Presentation from 6:30 to 7:45
Q & A from 7:45 to 8:15
Doors close at 8:30
We start presentating earlier now to allow for questions within the 8:30pm meeting time.
Yes We Kanban: An Overview of How to Apply the Kanban Method
to Your Software Development Life Cycle.
Covering the following topics:
- What is the Kanban Method?
- Why would you choose Kanban over another approach?
- Goals for Kanban Method implementations
- Kanban core and emergent properties
- How to start Kanbanning your SDLC
- ‘Operating the Machine’ (Using ToC and Lean principles to improve flow)
- Kanban metrics overview
- (If time permits) Kanban experience report
Biography
John Clifford, CSM, CSP, CSPO
John Clifford is a Senior Fellow at Construx Software where he focuses on software development, project management, and team management practices with an emphasis on Agile practices. Prior to joining Construx, he worked for small startups and software behemoths as a development engineer, product feature team manager, group QA manager, group project manager and development director.
With more than three decades of IT experience, John has developed software for CP/M, Unix, VAX, VMS, MVS/TSO, MacOS, Windows, and Windows CE. His expertise is deep and wide, ranging from desktop, mobile and embedded device applications to frameworks and asynchronous telecommunications software for microcomputers and mainframes.