At the Agile Business Conference

For the last 2 days I've been at the Agile Business Conference. After last year I said I wasn't going to go this year but I was tempted by the prospect of seeing Ken Schwaber and Mary Poppendieck again. I've heard the material before, but they're both engaging speakers and I was pleased that they were speaking at this conference because the audience is primarily business and project folks rather than the techies you get at XP Day.

On the whole, for me, the conference was "same old, same old" but I still left happy. Why? Because there were 2 sessions about Lean. First, Mary Poppendieck's keynote speech comparing Lean Product Development and Lean Software Development. Second, experience reports from BT and Lloyds TSB about their use of Lean. Lean needs more exposure because more people need to know about it.

Tags: agile business conference, lean

posted by Simon Baker @ permalink
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