UPDATE: The workshop is scheduled for December 2-3.

A little housekeeping. I'm doing a two-day workshop I'm doing in London in December (1-2).

http://skillsmatter.com/course/design-architecture/towards-a-new-architect

I'll share the experiences and tools I've developed as a team lead over the last decade doing architecture on Agile then Lean teams. My thesis should sound familiar: we need a Chief Architect-like role in development, someone who considers all aspects of the system and can coach the team toward emergent design in product and process. The workshop is aimed at giving you actionable tools and an overview of things I've seen work really well together. Some of the Lean/Kanban-related topics include how XP works with Kanban and how architectural/design approaches can help get to release-per-feature and higher ROI for your business.

The course is appropriate for technical leads (current and aspiring), product owners and designers, coaches and senior developers or software architects.

Hope to see you there (and have pints with the London Kanban and AltNetBeers kids)!