Latest Industry News

2009 Lean and Kanban Conference

Wednesday, 7 Jan 2009

The 2009 Lean and Kanban conference will be held on May 6th to 8th in Miami (note that this has been rescheduled from February). Sponsored by IndigoBlue, keynote speakers include Donald G. Reinertsen, Alan Shalloway and David J. Anderson. Rob Hathaway of IndigoBlue will be presenting a case study on his work with IPC Media. To register go to the Lean and Kanban Conference web site.

Adapt - Agile Thinking

Monday, 5 Jan 2009

To many, Agility means implementing an off the shelf process such as Scrum or XP. However, these deal with idealised circumstances and are often combined with other processes and management techniques in order to meet real-world challenges.

This book, due out in February 2009, provides a framework for applying Agile processes (whether off the shelf or of your own design) to your organisation. It draws upon experience from some of the largest Agile projects in the world to help you walk the line between the Agile ideal and the realities of software engineering.

Scrumban Book Released

Monday, 19 Dec 2008

Scrumban, the book containing essays on Kanban Systems for Lean Software Development, by Corey Ladas is available now. Expanding on the ideas found in the groundbreaking paper, Scrumban the book provides insight into concepts, metrics, and day-to-day management techniques which make continuous improvement in software development an achievable outcome in the real world. For more information go to the Modus Cooperandi web site.

Agile2009 Conference

Friday, 28 Nov 2009

The Agile2009 conference will be held between August 24th to 28th in Chicago. It will be an exciting international conference about techniques and technologies, attitudes and policies, research and first-hand experience, from both the management and technical sides of agile software development. The agile approach focuses on delivering business value early in the project lifetime and being able to incorporate emergent requirements. To register go to the Agile2009 Conference web site.

Kelly Walters joins IPC Media

Thursday, 27 Nov 2008

Kelly Walters, author of the popular blog site All About Agile web site. has joined IPC Media.

ThoughtWorks Briefing

Thursday, 30 Oct 2008

ThoughtWorks announce a briefing: Enterprise Agile in Practice guardian.co.uk. The briefing will be hel on Wednesday 19th November at the Grange Hotel, Tower Hill, London, and will discuss the sucessful implementation of the new content platform and web sites for Guardian Unilimited. The project, which was undertaken by a combination of ThoughtWorkers, Guardian staff and contractors, was successfully managed by IndigoBlue. For more information see Guardian press release.