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Takeways from Future of Agile

Experience the humbleness and energy of so many people in one single place was a great experience. I would have liked to stay longer just do discuss and share experiences.
Takeaways:

As Agile practitioners, we need to continue to evolve

Kanban is a promising tool for sharing Lean benefits outside teams

Pick the right tools for the job! Kanban [...]

Kanban vs Scrum – slides

Here are the slides for my presentation Kanban vs Scrum.

I’m glad people enjoyed it! The participants were asked to rate how valuable the presentation was on a scale 1-3. The average rating was 3.0 at Deep Lean and 2.9 at Future of Agile :o )

Kanban

This presentation is based on my Kanban vs Scrum article, I basically took the whole article and translated into animated pictures.

Update (2009-11-07):
Here’s a Japanese version of the slides, thanks to Hiroki Kondo. Domo-arigatoo!

A Few Thoughts on the Economics of Software Product Development

Some of you probably already get this… some of you might even disagree… but unless you are building software as a hobby… chances are, you building software for money. In other words, someone is paying you to write software for them. Why would someone pay you money to show up and write software? They are [...]

Podcast with IT Kanban

Kevin Ryan at IT Kanban just released a podcast with me. Check it out
Cheers
Mattias

Lean from the Trenches – Managing Large-Scale Projects with Kanban

I’ve published another book! This one’s called “Lean from the Trenches“. It is about how we scaled a 60-person project by combing techniques from Kanban, Scrum, and XP. I chose this title because it really it illustrates how to put Lean principles into practice in a software project, especially the notion of an end-to-end Kanban read more »

Coming to Brazil

Hi Brazil! I’m happy to say that I’ll be visiting you in a few weeks. I’ll be involved in two public events together with Samuel Crescêncio: Feb 10: Public seminar about Lean & Agile (in Florianopolis). More info coming soon. Feb 13-14:  Certified ScrumMaster course in São Paulo. The course will be in English, but Samuel read more »

AgileExams.com Controversy Resolved…Sort Of

Well it turns out the “controversy” about AgileExams turned out to be the biggest of misunderstandings. The Testimonials Were Authentic: Several of AgileExams customers contacted me and revealed the root cause of this confusion is the fussiness of PMI.org’s online … Continue reading