David Laribee's Leading Lean/Agile Teams Workshop

What's an architect? We can take it to mean a technical lead. By the book, we can call an architect the one who owns non-functional requirements and balances “-ilities” to meet service level agreements. Architects can be liaisons between business need and technological capability. The term architect is fuzzy at best. Adding ambiguity to the Agile notion of architect (embedded in teams, in the trenches) yields yet more ambiguity and ambiguity is anathema to value delivery.

It's time to stop the madness.

We need leaders that can get down and dirty with technology while mentoring and leading people while staying true to product vision. We need an embedded role in software teams like Toyota’s Chief Engineer: someone who brings skill and experience to bare in all areas of product development, product design, user experience, coaching, software craftsmanship, et. al.

Over the course of two days we'll engage in a diverse array of discussions, exercises, and summary talks aimed toward aspiring and existing technical leads, senior developers, coaches and architects. Participants will leave with actionable techniques and tools for leading their teams toward greater throughput and technical excellence.

LEARN HOW TO:

* Be a leader that can get down and dirty with technology
* Mentor and lead people while staying true to product vision
* Bring skill and experience to bare in all areas of product development, product design, user experience, coaching, and software craftsmanship

PROGRAMME
You can find the full programme of this 2-day workshop on Leading Lean/Agile teams here:
http://skillsmatter.c...

NEXT SESSION
This workshop will be taught by David Laribee at the Skills Matter eXchange - London, on May 10-11th David Laribee coaches the product development team at VersionOne. He has over a dozen years experience designing and developing enterprise applications and coaching Lean/Agile teams, working with internal IT, product development, consulting, and rapid prototyping teams across a wide variety of industries. David is a frequent speaker at local and national developer events, co-founder of the ALT.NET movement and early innovator in the Lean/Kanban community. He was awarded a Microsoft Architecture MVP for 2007 and 2008 and writes about Agile and Lean methods, coaching, and software design on the CodeBetter blog network. David is also the author of this course.

COURSE DATES & REGISTRATION + EARN A FREE TICKET TO THE PROGRESSIVE.NET TUTORIALS
This workshop is scheduled for May 10-11th, which is in the same week as the Progressive.NET Tutorials. If you register for this course before April 5th, you'll get a free ticket to the Progressive.NET Tutorials! (call the Skills Matter team on 0207 183 9040 for a promotion code to benefit from this offer)!

FULL EVENT INFORMATION:
http://skillsmatter.c...