This year the LeanSSC are running a series of conferences which have been created to give local audiences more convenient access to similar and related content without the need to travel extensively. While each event will have its own unique flavour and presenters, the similarity in timing allows for some overlap, and we are encouraging people to choose the event most convenient for them. The LeanSSC is not differentiating between the events in priority or preference and does not view one as superior to another.
Here are the details of the conferences. If you are in Europe, or fancy a trip, please consider submitting or registering. I hope to see you there.
Lean & Kanban 2011 Benelux
Call for Papers
Speakers
- Including Don Reinersten, David Anderson, Alan Shalloway, John Seddon, Dave Snowden, Michael Kennedy
Registration
Prices exclusive of VAT
- 2 Day Conference Pass: 700 Eur until Aug 15 (then 800 Eur)
- 2 Day Conference Pass + Dinner: 750 Eur until Aug 15 (then 850 Eur)
- 2 Day Conference Pass + Dinner + Hotel (3 nights): 1150 Eur (then 1250 Eur)
Lean & Kanban 2011 Central Europe
Call for Papers
- Currently open. Closes June 28th.
Speakers
- Including David Anderson, Kent Beck, Jim Benson, David Joyce and John Seddon
Registration
Prices exclusive of VAT
Individuals:
- One day, Regular 520 EUR until Aug 17 (then 580 EUR)
- Both days, Regular 985 EUR until Aug 17 (then 1095 EUR)
Two or more colleagues from the same company:
- One day, Regular 465 EUR until Aug 17 (then 520 EUR)
- Both days, Regular 885 EUR until Aug 17 (then 985 EUR)
LESS2011
Call for Papers
- Currently open. Closes July 18th.
Tracks
- Lean & Agile Product Development, Complexity & Systems Thinking, Beyond Budgeting, Transforming Organisations
Keynotes
- Peter Middleton, Jim Sutton, Steve Denning, Bjarte Bogsnes
Tutorials
- Alan Shalloway, Jean Tabaka, Benjamin Mitchell
Registration
Prices exclusive of VAT
- Early registration EUR 595 until July 31
- Regular registration EUR 695 until October 29
- On-site registration EUR 795
These are the updated vision, values and mission that we came up with at the LeanSSC Board Meeting this week at LSSC11. Our goal with this latest version is to be clearer about why we came together and what we believe in.
Vision
Better outcomes for industry and the public because systems are engineered using the values of the LeanSSC.
Values
- Accept the human condition.
- Accept that complexity and uncertainty are natural to knowledge work.
- Achieve better economic outcomes.
- Achieve better sociological outcomes.
- Seek and embrace valuable ideas from all disciplines.
- Believe a value-based community enhances the speed and depth of positive change.
Mission
- Improve and expand the application of Lean Thinking in software and systems engineering.
- Create a knowledge stewardship program to organize existing and emerging intellectual property in Lean Science, Lean Management, and Lean Education.
- Build a value-based community to accelerate and deepen positive change.
If you would like to support the LeanSSC in its mission to promote and create awareness of Lean Thinking applied to software and systems engineering and associated competencies, we have now created an individual membership package.
For just 100 USD, you can register for 2010-2011 membership, and in appreciation for your contribution, you will receive:
- a CD featuring 53 CONFERENCE SESSIONS SLIDES AND VIDEOS ON LEAN AND KANBAN from the Lean and Kanban Conference 2009 and Lean Software & Systems Conference 2010 (see below for details)
- a 100 USD DISCOUNT ON REGISTRATION to Lean Software and Systems Conference 2011 in Long Beach, CA
- a Lean Software and Systems Consortium MEMBERSHIP INSIGNIA PIN
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This is the list of conference sessions. These will NOT all be videos. In some cases they are audio only, some are slides only, and some are video and slides. However, there will be something for each of them.
Lean and Kanban Conference 2009
- Alan Shalloway: What’s Next in the Agile World – The Need For Lean
- Dean Leffingwell: A Lean and Scalable Requirements Information Model for Agile Enterprises
- Peter Middleton: Lean Software Development: achieving better requirements
- James Sutton: Let Lean be Lean, Agile be Agile, and Ever the Twain shall Meet
- Sterling Mortensen: Case Study: Hewlett Packard LaserJet Development
- Amit Rathore: Lean Software Development for Startups (or Why Agile isn’t Enough)
- Corey Ladas: Scrumban – Lean Thinking for Agile Process Evolution
- Jean Tabaka: Learning to Lean
- Alina Hsu: Lean Beyond Software Development
- Alan Shalloway: Redefining Lean – Creating a Model to Understand Product (and Software) Development
- David Anderson: Kanban – Applying Principles and Evolving Process Solutions
- Karl Scotland: Kanban, Flow & Cadence
- Rob Hathaway: Not Just Fun and Games Building the Mousebreaker Web Site
- Alisson Vale: Practical Experiences and Tools Applied to a Kanban Sustaining Engineering System
- Linda Cook: Crack That “WIP” – Introducing Kanban into an Organization
- Eric Landes: ChaMP Continuously Improving an Enterprise Development Group
- Eric Willeke: The Inkubook experience – A tale of five processes
- Chris Shinkle: Embracing Kanban – A case study examining how Kanban has been integrated into Software Engineering Professionals (SEP)
- David Laribee: A Leaner Form of Agility
Lean Software and Systems Conference 2010
- Alan Chedalawada: Introduction to the LeanSSC
- Donald Reinertsen: Keynote – The Easy Road to FLOW Goes through a Town named LEAN
- James Sutton: Lean Systems Engineering – Key to Accomplishing Big Things
- Alan Shalloway: Seeing What Matters – Using The Right Vision to Manage Transition
- Troy Tuttle: Why Kanban
- Joshua Kerievsky: The Limited Red Society
- Paul Rayner: Measure for Measure – Lean Principles for Effective Metrics and Motivation
- Daniel Vacanti: SOA and Color Modeling
- Richard Hensley: A Story about McKesson ADM Business Development
- James Shore and Arlo Belshee: Single Piece Flow in Kanban: A How-To
- Mary Poppendieck: What’s Wrong With Targets? How Policy Deployment differs from Management by Objectives
- Erik Sowa,Robert Loh: Enabling Flow Within and Across Teams
- Chris Hefley: Dogfooding Kanban
- Alan Chedalawada: Standard Work and The Lean Enterprise
- Chris Shinkle: Lean and Kanban in a Contracting Environment
- Yuval Yeret, Erez Katzav: Scaling Amdocs PBG from team scrum to a multi-program portfolio using Lean and Kanban
- Richard Turner: Sibling Rivalry – Can lean approaches help integrate systems and software engineering?
- Mike Sivertsen: Cognitive Kanban – Improving Decisions in a Complex World
- Ryan Martens: PDCA – Beyond Simple Inspect and Adapt
- David Anderson: Kanban and Accelerated Emergence of High Maturity
- Bohden W. Oppenheim: Lean Enablers for Systems Engineering
- Mike Fitterman, Rick Simmons: Kanban and Process Evolution in Constant Contact
- Christophe Louvion: Through the Lean Looking Glass, and what we found there
- Hensen Graves: Why Programs Fail
- Siddharta Govindaraj: A Startup Journey – Evolving from ad-hoc to Agile to Kanban
- Siraj Sirajuddin: The Lean Change Agents Mantra
- Dean Stevens: Feeding the Agile Beast
- Sameh Zeid: Delivery in Sustainment Projects
- John Goodsen: What’s Next for Electronic Kanban? Encouraging Innovation in Electronic Kanban Tools
- Tim Wingfield: Lean Lessons Learned – Our Experiences Moving to Kanban
- Israel Gat, Erik Huddleston, Walter Bodwell, Stephen Chin: Reformulating the Product Delivery Process
- Eric Willeke: Constraints of Knowledge
- Ken Pugh: Determining Business Value
- Kelley Horton: The Power of Visibility – Driving a Lean-Agile Transition with Visual Controls
Here is the information from the slides used to introduce the Lean Software and Systems Consortium at the Atlanta2010 conference.
Our Vision – “Professional Community”
- Destination resort – the preferred provider of information about lean software and system development.
Mission
- To promote and create awareness of Lean Thinking applied to software and systems engineering and associated competencies.
- To create a knowledge stewardship program to organize existing and emerging intellectual property into three elements of Lean Thinking – Lean Science, Lean Management, and Lean Education.
Objective
- To be the Locus for advanced thinking on applying lean to software & systems development
- To promote professionalism and adoption of these ideas.
Lean Thinking
- Lean Thinking provides foundational principles which involve the entire lifecycle of realizing business value; as the lifecycle cuts across the organization, so do the cultural impacts to drivers for Business, Management, and Technology.
- Lean Thinking provides principles, practices, and a philosophy of a practitioner evolved system which focuses on central Lean concerns, including:
- Value – incrementally delivered by highest business value,
- Flow – continual increments, high quality, fast
- Waste – defined as activities and approaches that reduce the economic value of the product to customers and other stakeholders.
- Lean Thinking is comprised of Lean Management, Lean Science, and Knowledge Stewardship, and is the foundation for Business Agility, Management Agility, and Technical Team Agility (the key components for achieving Enterprise Agility).
LeanSSC Formation
- Established in August 2009
- Based on shared common Values:
- Guided by theory/ science
- Openness (Co-exist with other standards)
- Based on results to Practitioners
- “Community “
- Diversity(membership, presentation, ideas)
- Proven practices
Primary Components
- Community
- Conferences
- Members
- Regional
- Body of Knowledge
- Portal
- Competencies
- Practical Experiences
- Recommended Curriculum
- Certification
- Examinations by ‘Topics’
- Certified Members
Members
- Corporate Members
- Academic Institutions
- Training Members
- Industry Sponsors
- Individuals
- Annual Membership pricing
- Benefits:
- Access to Body of Knowledge
- Examinations
- Certification
- Community
- Currently in process with several Corporate Members, and 4 Academic Institutions and 3 Training members
Body of Knowledge
- Portal
- Competencies – Lean Thinking
- Lean ‘Science’
- Lean Management
- Lean Knowledge Stewardship
- Certification
- Exams
- Recommended Curriculum
- Examination Partners
- Publications & Articles Practical Experiences
Focus
- Execution
- Operate the Non-Profit with strong business discipline
- Intellectual
- Thought leaders, Industry experts & Practitioners knowledge and expertise
Governing Board of Directors
- President – Alan Chedalawada
- Vice President – David Anderson
- Secretary – Karl Scotland
- Treasurer – TBD
- Chairman of Technical Advisory Board – Don Reinertsen
- Chairman of Competencies and Certification – Alan Shalloway
Technical Advisory Board
- Chairman – Don Reinertsen
- Co-Chair – James Sutton
- Blend of Academic, Application (practitioner), Technical (science) Advisors
- 32 Seats – by invitation
TAB Mission
- The mission of the LSSC TAB is to inform and support the LSSC board of proven practices guided by theory and demonstrated by results.
- The TAB uses diverse and real world experience to perform this mission.
Timeline
- Lean & Kanban May 2009: LeanSSC formation
- August 2009: LeanSSC incorporated
- UK Lean September 2009: Announcement & Membership Opened
- November 2009: Portal announced
- December 2009: TAB Concept & Start
- LeanSSC Conference April 2010: Continue Membership & TAB Formation
- European LeanSSC Conference October 2010: Portal for Competencies
- LeanSSC Conference April 2011: Certification Program & Begin Examination Program
Programs / Working Committees
- Technical Advisory Board – Don Reinertsen
- Marketing – TBD
- Operations – Alan Chedalawada
- Conferences – David Anderson
- Certification – Jim Sutton
- Curriculum – Alan Shalloway
- Membership – Alan Chedalawada
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Communities – Karl Scotland/ Rob Hathaway
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Content – Alan Shalloway
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Publications – Eric Willeke
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Strategic Partnerships – David Anderson