Mary and Tom Poppendieck third book just came out!

As the usage of lean in software development matures, expect specific and actionable ideas.

If you can’t wait to get the book, just buy it now.

If you have any ounce of patience, you can read the table of content, and the book sysnopsis.

Leading Lean Software Development: Results Are not the Point

Building on their breakthrough bestsellers Lean Software Development and Implementing Lean Software Development, Mary and Tom Poppendieck’s latest book shows software leaders and team members exactly how to drive high-value change throughout a software organization—and make it stick. They go far beyond generic implementation guidelines, demonstrating exactly how to make lean work in real projects, environments, and companies.

The Poppendiecks organize this book around the crucial concept of frames, the unspoken mental constructs that shape our perspectives and control our behavior in ways we rarely notice. For software leaders and team members, some frames lead to long-term failure, while others offer a strong foundation for success. Drawing on decades of experience, the authors present twenty-four frames that offer a coherent, complete framework for leading lean software development. You’ll discover powerful new ways to act as competency leader, product champion, improvement mentor, front-line leader, and even visionary.

• Systems thinking: focusing on customers, bringing predictability to demand, and revamping policies that cause inefficiency
• Technical excellence: implementing low-dependency architectures, TDD, and evolutionary development processes, and promoting deeper developer expertise
• Reliable delivery: managing your biggest risks more effectively, and optimizing both workflow and schedules
• Relentless improvement: seeing problems, solving problems, sharing the knowledge
• Great people: finding and growing professionals with purpose, passion, persistence, and pride
• Aligned leaders: getting your entire leadership team on the same page

I’ll be a panelist at the next PDMA LA event.

What: “Transitioning to Agile Product Development – Lessons Learned”
Where: The Olympic Collection, 11301 W. Olympic Blvd. at Sawtelle Blvd. / West Los Angeles
When: Weds, Nov 11th, 6-9PM

Register here

Members $35 in advance / $45 day of event. Non-members $45 in advance / $55 day of event. Students $30 with ID

Learn about the benefit of agile product development as well as the pitfalls and best practices from agile experts and practitioners about transitioning to an agile product development environment.

Other panelists include:

• Scott Downey – Chief Scrum Master from MySpace.com Scott has been active in the Software Industry for more than 18 years, holding positions at nearly every level of organizations, and in a wide variety of organization sizes. He is currently the Head Agile Coach for MySpace.com and is a Certified Scrum Practitioner, a member of both the Scrum Alliance and the Agile Alliance. He conducts regular Scrum Master Certification courses in Beverly Hills.

• Scott Gilbert – President of Enthiosys Scott is an expert in Agile software product management, business planning, project management and business development. He has worked in a variety of high-tech sectors including enterprise software, aerospace and defense, satellite communications and interactive media as an independent contractor and co-founder of start-up companies. Scott holds BBA degrees in marketing management and international management from the University of New Mexico, received his ScrumMaster certification in 2006, and Scrum Product Owner and Scrum Practitioner certifications in 2008. He is a generous PDMA volunteer.

• Ricardo Aguirre, Consultant Ricardo has over ten years experience creating, developing and delivering innovative web-based and mobile software application products featuring web 2.0 concepts and technologies using both traditional and iterative (Agile) methodologies. He brings experience from Sony, AT&T and Qualcomm to his current position as Sr. Product Manager with Trimble Navigation.

I’m excited to go and running a workshop tomorrow at the CIO Forum in Scottsdale.

I will challenge CIOs on why they may be the cause for their challenged or even failing agile implementations.

Dr. Jeff Sutherland and Scott Downey (Agile Coach @ myspace) will be hosting a class at The Tower, Beverly Hills on Monday and Tuesday, September 20 and 21.

The Scrum Alliance will soon require a written exam before certification is awarded, so this may be your last opportunity before testing begins in the Fall.

If you are interested, please visit the registration page.

Also, check out DigitalLA.net and consider joining them on Monday night at Trader Vic’s for a panel discussion. Registration is required and available on the Digital LA site.

Career analyst Dan Pink shows the terrifying disconnect between what social science knows and what managers do: rewards for performance don’t work; more often, they have a negative impact.

Watch Dan on Ted.

Then ask yourself: “how much am I impeding my company with carrots and sticks?”

Alan Shalloway from Net Objectives is re-broadcasting his online lean training series.

Details on their website.

Missed the whole thing? Get the CD!

If you didn’t manage to get to Miami for the inaugural Lean & Kanban conference then you can now watch most the presentations.

Rallydev is running a new weekly agile live show every tuesday morning called Rally Cafe.

In each show, they give tips on a different coffee type, find something relevant in the news and get a guest to answer a few questions (including from viewers).

With the tour de France going on, they thought of me as a guest for their third show. It is now available on ustream.

Today, distributed teams are stuck between 3 bad choices:
-use a limited online collaboration tool, and miss human interaction
-use local white boards, and miss real time information sharing

18 month ago, I wrote about Quickies -technology supported sticky notes- to bridge the white board and it’s online counterpart.

Minority Report offered a pure digital version of the white board.

According to Schematic, this is maybe not that far away…

Forget the number of LoC (lines of code) metric, here comes the DoG (distance of gesture) productivity metric.

You gotta love progress.

GM’s recently appointed CEO said this morning at the GM’s bankruptcy press confernce that the new GM will be leaner and moving faster.

Did he just see mary’s video “competiting on the basis of speed” ?