Agile Vancouver: Lean Development for Lean Times
On Tuesday April 21st, we are hosting an afternoon event on the application of Lean Principles to software development. This workshop brings together leading thinkers from Lean Production and Lean software. On the agenda, we have three interactive sessions:
- An Introduction to Lean Product Development - Katherine Radeka
- Scrumban: Lean Thinking for Agile Process Evolution - Corey Ladas
- The Lean Startup: a Disciplined Approach to Imagining, Designing, and Building New Product - Eric Reis
The event will run from 2:30pm to 7:00pm at the Plaza 500 (the same venue as previous Agile Vancouver conferences). Please register to attend this event as space will be limited. There is a $25 fee to secure your registration for the event. If you have any questions about registration, please contact us at registration@agilevancouver.net.
Speaker Bios:
- Corey Ladas is a master of applying Kanban systems to Agile projects and the editor of Lean Software Engineering blog
- Katherine Radeka is an expert in the application in Lean principles to product development with a track record of successful products and successful product development transformations
- Eric Ries is the former CTO of IMVU and champion of the Lean Startup
- When:
- 2009-04-21 2:30 PM - 7:00 PM
- Host Company:
- Agile Vancouver
- More Info:
- http://agilevancouver.ca
- iCal:
- Agile Vancouver: Lean Development for Lean Times iCal file
- Company:
- Agile Vancouver
- Website:
- http://www.agilevancouver.ca
- Location:
- Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Agile software development means that you provide the client what (s)he doesn't want in the first 30 days rather than after 180 days. You use the remaining 150 days to build what the client really wants with a "show as you go" strategy following each 30 day iteration. In 2001, Ken Schwaber, Kent Beck, Martin Fowler and Alistair Cockburn amongst others came up with the Agile Manifesto as follows: We are uncovering... more