[ANN] Free Lean Software Dev Course Taught On-line by Alan Shalloway

[Alan Shalloway]

Free Lean Software Development Course Taught On-line by Alan Shalloway
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?
<http://www.netobjectives.com/blogs/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


If you are wondering why we are offering this free training, click here
<http://www.netobjectives.com/why-free-online-lean>  .
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
<http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/NetObjectivesLeanOnlineTraining>  .
Registration
Please enroll in the on the yahoo group: NetObjectivesLeanOnlineTraining
<http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/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 8, 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  Register for this Event
Register
<http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/NetObjectivesLeanOnlineTraining>
<http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/NetObjectivesLeanOnlineTraining>  


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