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.

Intent

This Free 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

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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 will be approximately 90 minutes, with Q&A of 30 minutes.
• 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

Questions by participants will be handled a(sked and answered) on the yahoo group: NetObjectivesLeanOnlineTraining .

Registration

Please enroll in the on the yahoo group: NetObjectivesLeanOnlineTraining  as your first step in enrolling in the class. 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.

Outline

The course is broken down into 6 sessions on Lean and one or two sessions on tangential subjects such as how to manage an Agile project and how to do architecture in a Lean-Agile project.

Session 1:

Introduction to Lean Software Development

• Lean as fast-flexible-flow
• Lean principles of software development
• The importance of value stream mapping
• Exercise: Value Stream Mapping

Session 2:

Five Reasons for Agility

• Add business value quickly
• Clarify needs of the customer
• Better project management
• Quick wins, quick learning
• Better for development

Product Portfolio Management

• Driving from business value
• Minimizing work in progress
• Smaller projects add more value

Session 3:

Lean as a Guide for Agile Methods

• Just In Time
• Contrasting Waterfall with Agility

Session 4:

QA's role in Lean Agile Software Development

Session 5:

How Business Analysts can help their teams

Session 6:

Lean Anti-Patterns

Tentative Schedule

Note from Alan Shalloway: This schedule may change. It is meant to be descriptive more than committed to. The only way we can offer this course at no charge is if I can reschedule sessions if paying coursework/consulting needs to be delivered. However, it will be very unlikely that a change will be made within 2 weeks of an event.

1. Monday, December 1, 8am Pacific
2. Monday, January 5, 8am Pacific
3. Monday, January 26, 8am Pacific
4. Monday, March 2, 8am Pacific
5. Monday, March 23, 8am Pacific
6. Friday, April 10, 8am Pacific

Venue/Registration Info

Room/Location

Online

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