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KaizenConf Workshops Schedule

UPDATE: We will try to record the full sessions. I'm hoping some participants will bring video cameras and have at it. I'm bringing mine. First of all the temporal situation: Morning Sessions - 9a-Noon Afternoon Sessions - 1:30p-4:30p Then, we have to talk about the nomenclature around and sizing...

Published Mon, Oct 27 2008 12:32 AM by Dave Laribee

Filed under: conferences, housekeeping
The Value of Lean and Kanban

Mark Levison wrote up and introductory article on Kanban for InfoQ. It's from a people perspective and worth a read if your new to this scene or interested. I'm especially happy he conveyed the "work to done" concept. For me that's the biggest thing . Done has a pretty simple definition...

Published Thu, Oct 23 2008 5:42 PM by Dave Laribee

Filed under: lean, kanban
Presenting the KaizenConf Workshops

UPDATE 1: Schedule is coming tonight. Each workshop is approximately three hours long. We're going with a longer form to get more knowledge transfer, interactivity, etc. UPDATE 2: Based on space and time constraints, there will be two sessions going on at once. No tracks (we don't do tracks)...

Published Wed, Oct 22 2008 1:35 AM by Dave Laribee

Filed under: ALT.NET, Community, conferences, housekeeping
Transitioning from NAnt to Rake

Maybe you're interested in this Rake business . Maybe you've got a big investment in a whole build infrastructure in NAnt. Maybe, just maybe, it's impractical to convert the whole enchilada over at once. What do you do? Wrap it in Rakey goodness, of course! Step one: leave your nant build...

Published Fri, Oct 17 2008 3:05 PM by Dave Laribee

Filed under: Ruby, rake, builds, nant
VersionOne, Day Zero

I announced this on Twitter a while back, but I've left my full-time job at Xclaim to join VersionOne as their internal Agile Development Coach. I'll say, leaving Xclaim was kind of a bittersweet thing. I'm still a part owner of the business, which is nice, but it's the excellent team...

Published Thu, Oct 2 2008 11:50 PM by Dave Laribee

Filed under: housekeeping
.NET: Coming to a Cloud Near You

I was very happy to hear the news that Amazon will be providing Windows/SQL support on their EC2 cloud computing service . From the email announcement: We are excited to let you know that Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) will offer you the ability to run Microsoft Windows Server or Microsoft...

Published Wed, Oct 1 2008 9:26 PM by Dave Laribee

Filed under: .net, infrastructure, cloud-computing

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KaizenConf Workshops Schedule

The Value of Lean and Kanban

Presenting the KaizenConf Workshops

Transitioning from NAnt to Rake

VersionOne, Day Zero

.NET: Coming to a Cloud Near You