This course is ideal for a remote team. It can be delivered as either a one-day overview (as described here) or extended to the equivalent of our 2-day Lean Software Development for Teams course.

Lean-Thinking provides a framework from which to improve virtually any organization's software development process. While not a panacea, Lean provides clarity on what to look at and how to solve the problems that are often beyond other methods. For software development organizations, Lean provides several principles that provide guidance to Agile methods, particiularly Scrum. Lean will assist those organizations which have either had problems adopting Agile methods or those who have been successful at the team level and are now attempting to scale it to the Enterprise. See Alan Shalloway's blog Is Scrum Failing Us? for some examples of the challenges Lean can give guidance to.

This on-line training is true training, including lectures, readings, exercises and question & answer periods. The intent of this training is:

• Provide the equivalent of a one-day Lean Software Development Overview course
• Promote Lean Software Development to many in the industry
• To improve the ability of participants to explain to their associates why Lean Software Development is useful
• Provide insights on how to scale Agile/Scrum to the enterprise

All participants are expected to:

• Read learning assignments requested. Readings will be given prior to each class. These will not exceed one hour in duration.
• Attend live on-line lectures when possible, listen to the recordings of them when not. Q&A will be part of the live sessions. Each session will be approximately 90 minutes, with Q&A comprising 30 minutes of that amount.
• Do exercises assigned between on-line lectures. These exercises will include directed discussions/exercises with participant's associates. This will help participants learn how Lean Principles work in their own environment as well as help enroll others in their companies understand the value of Lean.

Questions by participants will be handled a(sked and answered) on the yahoo group: NetObjectivesLeanOnlineTraining Please enroll in the user group as your first step in enrolling in the class. You will receive an email with a link to a page on this website which has all the steps you need to complete the enrollment process. If you do not receive the email, contact andrea.bain@netobjectives.com for further instructions.

All participants must enroll in this user group prior to the first session of the course. It is not acceptable for one person in a company to register while multiple people attend under his/her registration. This may result in all attendees being removed from the class. Times have been set at 8AM Pacific to allow for Europeans to attend as well.

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