Less than two months left to the Lean and Kanban Conference in Miami and some exciting news have just happened last days.
The price is lower now and there are options for choosing between a "Full Lean Day", a "Full Kanban Day" or both. Look at the final version of the promotional flyer and open the conference web site to read more:
Using David Anderson's words: "the greatest ever assembled group of experts in Lean software development will be convening in Miami in May to explore the frontiers of agile and lean in software development". He is talking about: Alan Shalloway, Dean Leffingwell, Peter Middleton, James Sutton, Corey Ladas, Karl Scotland, Amit Rathore, Sterling Mortensen, Aaron Sanders, Rob Hathaway, Max Keeler, Linda Cook, Eric Landes, Eric Willeke, Chris Shinkle and David Laribee. He also starts to talk about them in his blog here and here.
I'll be there too. My company has been using the Kanban approach for more than a year and we learned a lot during this time. Since then, we've been building an eletronic kanban board to support the process and the way we use this board to manage our process will be the focus of my presentation.
Now we are working to detach the board from the rules of our process. We are creating features to allow process customization. The idea is customize the definition of workcells, stages, limits, classes of services, flow rules and others Kanban concepts. Depending on the acceptance of the tool and feedback from the community, we can go to the Open Source model, giving back to the community all the support that we receive to improve our processes with these ideas. That's speculative yet, but quite possible.
I see you there!