December 4th - Meet Scotland's premiere Lean Thinker at AgileScotlland
Hi Everyone,
The next AgileScotland event will be something a little different.
I'm absolutely delighted that Stuart Ross - Scotland's premiere Lean Thinker and named by Scotland on Sunday newspaper as "The Man who would save Scottish Industry" - will be joining us to talk about the tools, techniques, and thinking of Lean Thinking.
You can read the Scotland on Sunday article here: http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/business.cfm?id=219312006 . It is a very easy and interesting read.
What's this got to do with Agile? Quite simply, many - but not all - of the Agile tools, techniques and thinking are grounded in Lean Thinking. While it is true that software development is not a type of manufacturing, there is still a huge amount that Agile has learnt from Lean. This will be a very interesting session if you want to know WHY agile works and how to make agile better.
Stuart is a fascinating story teller, and he will be sharing some fascinating stories about real life Lean implementations here in Scotland. I hope you can make it. It'd help reduce my stress if a few of you sent me a note saying that you're coming :)
Clarke
The next AgileScotland event will be something a little different.
I'm absolutely delighted that Stuart Ross - Scotland's premiere Lean Thinker and named by Scotland on Sunday newspaper as "The Man who would save Scottish Industry" - will be joining us to talk about the tools, techniques, and thinking of Lean Thinking.
You can read the Scotland on Sunday article here: http://scotlandonsunday
What's this got to do with Agile? Quite simply, many - but not all - of the Agile tools, techniques and thinking are grounded in Lean Thinking. While it is true that software development is not a type of manufacturing, there is still a huge amount that Agile has learnt from Lean. This will be a very interesting session if you want to know WHY agile works and how to make agile better.
- Did you know that TDD is the software incarnation of a japanese lean / quality practice called Poke Yoke? It's one of the least known quality practices but one of the most powerful - both in software and in manufacturing. It also prevents your house from burning down.
- Did you know that the one common factor across all agile approaches is also the key factor in Lean manuacturing?
- Do you know the difference between the manufacturing concepts of push and pull? And why the differrence is the key to making agile work?
- Have you read the Poppendieck's Lean Software Development books or attended their AgileScotland training sessions, and like to know where they learnt their stuff?
Stuart is a fascinating story teller, and he will be sharing some fascinating stories about real life Lean implementations here in Scotland. I hope you can make it. It'd help reduce my stress if a few of you sent me a note saying that you're coming :)
Clarke
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