My Kanban Presentation (better in person ;)
I have been studying and practicing Kanban since I learned about it at CodeMash in January of 2009. David Laribee of VersionOne did a session on it.
Ironically I spent my first 3 days at LeanDog at CodeMash - I was scared & excited about what was to come. Heavy on my mind was "how to run a company" - I knew I could lead software teams and organization transformations - but running a company meant: Sales, Marketing, Back Office, etc --- those are backlogs I am not used to managing. So - when I saw how you could "see constraints" by practicing Kanban - the light bulb went off. Plus a few drinks after the sessions with David didn't hurt :)
I now use these techniques with every client for running software development. I frequently speak on this and I have done this presentation at many clients, user group meetings in Cleveland, Columbus, Pittsburgh, etc. and even presented it twice at Agile 2009 in Chicago.
It takes about an hour to go through - call me if you want to learn more, I am passionate about this technique and truly believe it's a better process! This presentation is much better in person because I use the physical boards to tell the story - slide decks just don't tell the story.
