Kim: Please be aware also of this course. 4 people from Vanguard
are coming. Regards, Joe

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On May 9-10, Mary and Tom Poppendieck will give their Lean Software
Development: Practitioner's course in Charlotte, NC. This is a 2-day
course. This is their only planned course in the eastern US this year.

This is an excellent course. It will help you satisfy your customers
with quality work more quickly. It will cover many of the topics in
their recent book: Implementing Lean Software Development; From
Concept to Cash (see:
http://www.amazon.com/Implementing-Lean-Software-Development-Addison-Wesley/dp/0\
321437381/sr=8-2/qid=1172706958/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2/105-2936777-7615600?ie=UTF8&s=bo\
oks
)

Lean Software Development is highly complementary to Scrum. Indeed,
Jeff Sutherland (co-creator of Scrum) wrote a foreword to their recent book.

More details are available here:
http://agile-carolinas.pbwiki.com/Lean%20Software%20Development That
page also has a link where you may register.

Regards, Joe
704-376-8881

PS. Please pass on to anyone who may be interested.