- The Budapest Lean and Kanban Meetup Group is One Year Old It is always a great thing to meet the local Lean and Kanban community in Budapest, and this latest event was even more special, because our local group just became one year old. Happy Birthday!After my talk about Agile and Lean in software maintenance environment, we had a delicious cake and a great discussion about how to adapt certain Agile and Lean principles in maintenance projects and we also shared several practical ideas.
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- Visit at Targu Mures A couple of weeks ago, I was told that a new Agile meetup group was about to be started in Targu Mures - even the local newspaper wrote about it - and the organizers wanted me to give a special talk about the Agile way of working. It was a great opportunity for me to visit Transylvania again and meet the forming community there.
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- Visit at Cluj Napoca My old friend Victor invited me to Cluj Napoca, Romania to talk about software development in practice. There were three talks in the morning at his company evoline and a fourth talk late afternoon at the local meetup group. We started the day with an introduction to Kanban, because the audience knew about Agile, but Kanban was something new, and additionally we needed it for the maintenance-related presentation: Kanban Basics for Beginners Revised from Zsolt Fabok After a short break we continued with a longer talk about maintenance and how to use Agile, Lean, Kanban and leadership techniques in order to stabilise a maintenance situation: Kanban Basics for Beginners Revised from Zsolt Fabok The last presentation was about how to use Agile techniques without saying Agile: Agile in Stealth Mode from Zsolt Fabok My talk at the meetup became a bit longer than I expected, but we had - at least I felt like that - a great discussion how the software development process evolved at Digital Natives - my current company - and, uniquely, we talked about what we were doing right and where we failed: Evolution of the Software Development Process at Digital Natives from Zsolt Fabok I promised a list of books worth reading.
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- Customer Diversity Last year at xp2010 Scott E. Page talked about the benefits of diversity inside an organisation. According to Scott, diversity improves the performance and decision making process of an organisation. Today late afternoon I attended a startup meetup event where Patrick Vlaskovits talked a bit about the diversity among customers.
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- Meetup: Kanban in 5 Minutes Yesterday evening I gave a 5 minute long lightning talk at Bp New Tech Meetup about Kanban focusing on the measure and manage flow principle. Here are my slides.
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- Third Meetup - Open Space This Wednesday we held the third event of the Budapest Lean and Kanban Meetup Group, which was excellent in my point of view, and we had great discussions. In the beginning we collected the following topics.
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- Third Meetup - Open Space This Wednesday we held the third event of the Budapest Lean and Kanban Meetup Group, which was excellent in my point of view, and we had great discussions. In the beginning we collected the following topics.
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- Meetup: Kanban Basics for Beginners Next week, Yuval Yeret will present at the first main event of the Budapest Lean and Kanban Meetup Group. He is going to speak about a bit more advanced topic - scalling Kanban -, so I thought it would helpful to the community to keep an introduction for those, who aren't that familiar with Kanban.
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