Here are the slides from my keynote at the Scrum Gathering in Cape Town.

• What to do when Scrum doesn't work - PDF
• What to do when Scrum doesn't work - Powerpoint

Positive atmosphere and lots of laughs, really enjoyed the audience! The whole topic felt a bit like poking a stick at a hornet's nest, but it looks like I got away with it, at least so far :o)

Slide samples:

Here are the slides from my deep-dive workshop at the Scrum Gathering, Cape Town:

• Kanban for Scrum practitioners, PDF format
• Kanban for Scrum practitioners, Powerpoint format

Thanks for attending! Lots of interesting questions and insights came up during the workshop.

Sample slide:

On Sep 16-17 Tom & Mary Poppendieck will once again come to Stockholm and teach a lean course with me. "Leading Lean Software Development" is aimed at leaders in organisations that are serious about succeeding with Lean software development.

The course also includes an evening seminar on Sep 15.

Save SEK 2000 by registering this week (early bird price expires on Friday Aug 20).



There are still a few spots left, more info and registration here:
http://www.crisp.se/leadinglean/20100916

Join us!

Here are the slides for my session Kanban and Scrum - making the most of both at Agile 2010, Orlando. Thanks for participating!

• Slides in PDF format - if you don't have powerpoint
  
• Slides in Powerpoint format - if you want the animations
  

For those who didn't get a hold of the handouts, here is the Kanban Kick-Start Example and the Scrum Checklist.

I was a bit worried that the participants would be tired & unengaged since this was the last session of a week long conference. But I threw in some exercises and jokes to liven things up and was happy to see that everyone seemed highly engaged througout the whole session! The course feedback forms confirm this - the average rating of the session was 5.0 out of 5! Every one of the 85 feedback forms said 5. How to improve from here? :o)

Sorry for those of you who couldn't get in (the room filled up quickly). These links may be of interest to you:

• http://www.crisp.se/kanban
• http://www.infoq.com/minibooks/kanban-scrum-minibook

Slide excerpts:

Here are the slides from my Kanban & Value Stream Mapping workshop at Agile Spain 2010 in Madrid. Thanks for participating!

Here are the slides from my keynote "The Essence of Agile" at Agile Spain 2010, Madrid. Basically a whole week's course compressed into a one hour lecture, worked out even better than I had hoped :o)

Impressed by the turnup, 300 people is good for being the first agile conference in Spain!

My book "Kanban and Scrum - making the most of both" is now available in Japanese. Good work Hiroki Kondo & Midori Daida!

If you enter the Crisp office you will see these two A3 papers on the wall (click picture for bigger version)





Here is an english translation of these pictures.

The first picture is titled "What is Crisp?". It defines our purpose.
The second picture is titled "Crisp strategy". It defines how the company works and why.

Read on if you are curious about how and why we created these simple A3 pictures, and why it has had such a strong impact on our company.

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Next week is full of interesting and fun events! Mary Poppendieck, Tom Poppendieck, and Jeff Sutherland are doing the following events with me in Stockholm:

• Monday - Tuesday: Certified ScrumMaster course
• Tuesday evening: Introduction to Lean Software Development
• Wednesday: Deep Lean

The events are all fully booked but you can still register and get on the reserve list, in which case we'll get in touch if a seat becomes available.

Mary Poppendieck used this definition in our Leading Lean Software Development course a few months ago. Very nice and concise definition of lean.

What is Lean?

• Deliver continually increasing customer value
• Expending continually decreasing effort
• In the shortest possible timeframe
• With the highest possible quality

A journey, not a destination.

(see bigger version here)

On behalf of the Agile Alliance I'm happy to announce that the Agile Manifesto is now open for translation! So far it has been translated to Swedish and Japanese, more translations are underway.

See the Agile Manifesto Translation Program for more info & how to contribute.

Nu finns Agila Manifestet på svenska!

Detta dokument skrevs 2001 av 17 experter inom mjukvaruutveckling och startade en ny epok inom branchen. Författarna bakom detta formade samtidigt organisation Agile Alliance med visionen "We support those who explore and apply Agile principles and practices to make the software industry productive, humane, and sustainable."

Som styrelseledamot i Agile Alliance har jag tagit på mig ansvaret att internationalisera manifestet. Mitt mål är att få manifestet översatt till så många språk som möjligt, så tipsa gärna mig om lämpliga översättare till andra språk!

Mer info här: Agile Alliance Translation Program.

Join me in this exclusive 3-day workshop where experienced Agile/Kanban practitioners, coaches & project managers share knowledge. The workshop is led by David Anderson and limited to 8 participants.

Click here for more info & registration.
Only 2 seats left!

Guess what. Toyota uses the waterfall method for software development – and now they’re trying to figure out how to go Lean.

Surprised? So was I!

Read on...

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On March 4-5 Tom & Mary Poppendieck will once again come to Stockholm and teach a lean course with me. "Leading Lean Software Development" is aimed at leaders in organisations that are serious about succeeding with Lean software development.



There are still a few spots left, more info and registration here:
http://www.crisp.se/leadinglean

Join us!

I'm happy to say that my Scrum Checklist has been translated to several languages:

• Russian (thanks Alexander Plutalov)
  
• Japanese (thanks Yasunobu Kawaguchi)
• German (thanks Marc Bless)
  
• Portuguese (thanks Demetrius Nunes)

Here are the slides from my breakfast seminar "Agile - ett verktyg inte ett mål" (= "Agile - a tool, not a goal"), hosted by DSDM Consortium. The presentation was in Swedish but the slides are in English.

This is more or less the same presentation as my keynote at Integration Agile 2009 conference in Holland.

I was interviewed by Mitch Pronschinske on Agile Zone, this turned into two articles:

• Kanban isn't better than Scrum, it's just smaller
• Scrum and XP are new - their principles are not

I think Mitch did a good job of turning the interview into coherent articles (not an easy job). 

Here's a video recording of my 10 minute lightning talk "Kanban vs Scrum, a practical guide" at Agila Sverige June 8, 2009. It is basically a 10 minute summary of my book "Kanban and Scrum - making the most of both".

NOTE - the recording is in Swedish.