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Through the spring, we (at Modus Cooperandi ) have been working with my olf colleague from Microsoft, Kim Tapia-St.Amant and her Interactive Space company to design our new brand identity and web site. We're rolling out the brand identity this week...
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There is only 1 week left before the APLN Agile Leadership Summit : Advancing the Agile Enterprise, at the Edgewater Hotel in Seattle. We've got a fantastic lineup of speakers and breakout sessions. It's a mini-Agile conference here in the Northwest...
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VersionOne are organizing the 3rd annual survey. This has proven to be the best industry survey over the last 2 years. Despite the fact, it is organized by a tools vendor, it's very independent. The quality of the survey relies on each and every one...
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You have 3 days remaining to register for the APLN Agile Leadership Summit in Seattle (July 17-18) and get the $100 earlybird discount. Don't miss out. This is a fantastic event, at a great venue, and is a steal at only $300. Register now and save...
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I'm delighted to announce our 3rd panelist for our Agile Leadership Summit , on July 17th and 18th at The Edgewater hotel in Seattle, will be Jeff Beehler who runs the Visual Studio Team System product group at Microsoft. Jeff has experience a team...
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I'm happy to announce that my former colleague Erik Arnold, VP of IT Services (and acting head of IT) for Corbis, has confirmed he will be one of our panelists for the APLN Agile Leadership Summit in Seattle, at the Edgewater Hotel on July 17-18....
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Avanade have been a long time supporter of the APLN in Seattle. They sponsor the local chapter meetings and provide us with a venue for our monthly meetings. Dale Christian, CIO, is one of our confirmed panelists. Today, I'm happy to announce that...
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AMS Services in Bothell, Washington is the latest firm to announce sponsorship for our event. We're delighted to have them involved and I'd like to thank them for their support of the APLN and the agile community in the Seattle area. We're...
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SolutionsIQ will be a Gold Sponsor for our event. SolutionsIQ have both Brent Barton and Lance Young taking part running our Scrum track. SolutionsIQ is a long time supporter of the agile community in Seattle. They host the APLN Redmond chapter and co...
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I want to congratulate my friend Ric Merrifield on the publication of his article, " The Next Revolution in Productivity " in Harvard Business Review this month. This management approach which looks at capabilities rather than process flows...
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I'm delighted to announce that VersionOne are the first firm to confirm a Gold level sponsorship for the APLN Summit in Dallas. VersionOne has been a long time supporter of the APLN and we're glad to have their continued support. With VersionOne...
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After meeting Chris Matts and I at XtC May 13th, Liz Keogh pensions off the "As a <user role>... I want... So that..." format for writing user stories, first proposed in the BDD community by Tim McKinnon. I love Liz's new format.....
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Some people have been asking about our very special conference format for the APLN event in Seattle . Register today! Many of our local chapter members are bored with traditional conferences where speakers simply deliver powerpoint slides. Most of those...
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We released the sponsorship package for the APLN Seattle Leadership Summit yesterday. You can get it here . Our strategy with the conference has been to focus on raising sponsorship and be very professional about it, in order to keep the ticket price...
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I've been visiting the UK a lot recently - at least once per month. On one of those visits, Steve Freeman, took me out to visit a team at Sky satellite broadcasting being by Simon Baker and Gus Power. They blog at Agile In Action. If you haven't...
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We now have a PDF advertising flyer for our APLN Leadership Summit in Seattle this coming July. Please help us with registrations by downloading the flyer and circulating it at your employer, or on your web page, or favorite discussion group or online...
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Lisa has provided us with the abstract for her opening key note our APLN Leadership Summit . Be sure to register and enjoy the Early Bird rate of only $300. The Challenge of Focus: Breakthrough Performance in an Environment of Uncertainty and Complexity...
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The news is finally out! I've been working on this deal since the day after I left Corbis. We put the ink on the contract back in April (on my birthday as it happened.) My firm, Modus Cooperandi and Valtech have entered a strategic partnership. Valtech...
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I happy to announce we landed a star CIO as the first participant in our CIO and technical leader panel. Dale Christian the CIO of Avanade will be strolling across the railway lines from Avanade HQ in the Seattle World Trade Center to join us for the...
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Eric Landes is presenting his experiences of developing a kanban system for software engineering at Robert Bosch, at the Indianapolis TFS Special Interest Group on June 12th . If you live in the area of happen to be passing through Indianapolis in mid...
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Eric Landes at Robert Bosch has created a kanban process template for Team Foundation Server. So all you Microsoft .Net developers can feel the joy of kanban in the safety and comfort of your own office. Thanks Eric, for a nice community contribution...
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To add to the already stellar list of participants for our event I confirmed today that Dale Christian , CIO at Avanade will participate in our CIO Panel Session, and Alan Shalloway of Net Objectives will join our Think Tank / Open Space sessions as a...
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We have opened up the registration for the APLN Leadership Summit in Seattle on July 17-18. Register now and get the early bird special price of $300. We have a fantastic program lined up and a uniquely collaborative conference format. Key note speeches...
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Well it looks like TriFork and Accelinnova have struggled to fill the room in San Francisco for Monday's Leadership Summit event. If you'd like to meet me in person and ask me anything about Agile Management, Kanban, MSF CMMI, FDD, or what we're...
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In some of the early Theory of Constraints literature Eli Goldratt would talk about three types of bottleneck - capacity constrained resources (CCRs), policies and [research what the third type is.] In recent, years he changed his mind and simplified...
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