Where & When

Denver , CO

Fri, Mar 16
8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Venue details

Pricing

$179/person

Special Pricing

Group Discount

Register a group of 4 or more to get a discount for each person

Speaker(s)

Alan Shalloway, Ken Pugh, Mike Cox, Geoff Felder

Hosted by

Net Objectives

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PDUs
6 PDUs, Category B

Want to learn how to start a transition of improvement in your organization that includes business stakeholders, management and the development team? Net Objectives can show you how with its 1-day, 2-track conference on Lean, Kanban and technical practices. This conference is designed for executives, managers, developers, testers, leads, project managers, QA - virtually anyone interested in improving their software development efforts - whether as part of an IT organization or as a product development group.

Net Objectives's unprecedented range enables us to present coverage of all of the methods required for Lean-Kanban adoption in an enterprise. By providing the conference in this fashion, attendees will be presented with a cohesive method of transitioning their organization (or team) to better methods. The methods presented are a combination of those from industry leading experts as well as some of our own leading edge methods. Our presenters have made presentations to such prestigious conferences as LSSC11, LESS10, LKBE10, LSSC10, SQE ADP, SQE BSC, Agile and more.

This is also a great opportunity to meet two of Net Objectives' top authors - Alan Shalloway, CEO, Fellow Consultant, Ken Pugh, newest Vice President and Senior Consultant in the Denver area, Geoff Felder, and Vice President and Senior Consultant Mike Cox. Alan is co-author of 4 books on design patterns, Scrum, Lean-Agile for the Enterprise and lean-agile technical skills. Ken is a Jolt award winner and author/co-author of two recently released books Lean-Agile Acceptance Test-Driven Development: Better Software Through Collaboration and Essential Skills for the Agile Developer: A Guide to Better Programming and Design (with Alan and two other Net Objectives' consultants)

This is not your normal conference

Most conferences are geared around tracks (information) or roles (people) and not necessarily an intent. While we have labeled ours by role, the conference is designed to provide answers for those folks with the following questions:

• How do I start a Lean-Agile transition across a large organization?
• As a developer, how can I best do my job now that my company has adopted Agile?
• Our company has plateaued with Scrum, how do we pick up our improvement?
• As an executive, I'm concerned that I'll lose control with Agile methods. How do I improve our development organization without losing control?
  

Friday, March 16, 2012

Register Today! For more information call or email: Mike Shalloway, Director of Marketing and Sales

404-593-8375, mike.shalloway@netobjectives.com

The Executive Track provides the basics of what an executive needs to have his organization begin a transition to Lean-Kanban methods. It includes both an overview of Lean, what it takes to transition to Lean-Kanban as well as experience reports of those who have completed this transition.

The Kanban Track provides a solid introduction to Kanban as well as providing insights to Scrum developers on how to use Lean-Kanban principles to improve their own practices - even while continuing to do Scrum.

Time	Executive & Business Track	Kanban & Developer Track
8:00am-  9:00am	Registration. Networking, continental breakfast.
9:00am-10:00am	Keynote: Lean Software Development Comes of Age Alan Shalloway
10:00am-10:30am	Break
10:30am-11:30am	An Executive's View of Lean-Agile Geoff Felder	Introduction to Kanban in 8 Steps Ken Pugh
11:30am-12:30pm	Lunch
12:30pm-  1:30pm	The Role of the Product Owner and Development of Minimal Marketable Features (MMFs) Mike Cox	Acceptance Test-Driven Development Ken Pugh
1:30pm-  2:15pm	Working Break*
2:15pm-  3:15pm	Lean Product Management From Business Stakeholders to the Team Alan Shalloway	TDD & Refactoring Ken Pugh
3:15pm-  4:00pm	Working Break*
4:00pm-  5:00pm	Transitioning Your Organization to Lean-Agile Geoff Felder

May have some session/speaker substitutions.

* Working breaks have a 45 minute, instructor led, informal conversation about a topic that attendees wanted further discussion on. These are deteremined in the session preceeding the break. The purpose of these breaks is to allow for in-depth conversation about questions that arise during talks.

Venue/Registration Info

PPA Event Center

PPA Event Center
2105 Decatur Street, Denver, CO 80211

Directions
I-25 to 23rd Ave. Exit #211
West to Clay Street
South on Clay Street to 21st Ave.
West on 21st Ave. to Decatur St.
PPA Event Center is on the corner of 21st Ave. and Decatur Street

Map link

Parking/Directions (click for a map on the PPA website)

Special Instructions

Space is Limited – Please Register Early for this Event

Please pass this invitation along to all of your associates. The first 10 folks who register for both days will get a copy of any Net Objectives Series book they choose at the conference.  See our resources page for available books.

About Net Objectives:
Since 1999, Net Objectives has been assisting developers, teams and companies create better software with higher success rates. We have trained over 20,000 professionals in Lean-Agile principles, practices and processes and facilitated Lean-Agile initiatives from team level to the enterprise in both software product development and IT applications. Net Objectives delivers comprehensive assessments, consulting, training and coaching services worldwide. Practice areas include: Lean Software Development, Scrum Process and Analysis, Agile Architecture, Test-Driven Development, Design Patterns, Quality Assurance and more. Net Objectives is a diverse and talented team of Lean-Agile experts dedicated to your success.

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