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(Jan 18)
Technical training is widely available. We've got great books, conferences, and lots of user's groups. Unfortunately, managers aren't that lucky.
Mostly they're expected to just figure things out as they go, and sadly, the results are all too often what you'd expect. Many bad managers float from department to department (or company to company) while never becoming great. They don't lack the desire, and they're very smart people, but they end up trying to re-invent the wheel. Instead of learning and applying tried and true principles, they end up scrambling to learn and understand while also trying to meet challenging deadlines.
Here's a chance to change the status quo. Mary and Tom Poppendieck are bringing their Lean Leadership Workshop to the Research Triangle Park in North Carolina. The lean software concepts are designed to help your team focus on the parts of software development that provide the most benefit, and eliminate the wated effort. This idea has been used for years in manufacturing, and those same ideas map very well to the software space. Mary and Tom were the two pioneers who championed that idea in our field.
In a time of increasing competitiveness... when the economy is still struggling and your company needs every advantage to pull ahead of the rest of your industry, can you really afford to ignore this type of world-class training? Invest in your managers and senior developers, and you'll reap the benefits for years to come. Remember the old proverb. If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Register now at Event Brite. Act quickly and you can get the early bird discount. It's expires February 2nd.
Here's some text from the workshop description:
As global competitiveness comes to the software development industry, the search is on for a better way to create first-class software rapidly, reliably and affordably. Lean initiatives in manufacturing, logistics, and services have led to dramatic improvements in cost, quality and delivery time; can they do the same for software development?
The short answer is ..absolutely!
Many methods are improving software delivery, but Lean is emerging as one of the best. It is grounded in decades of research and practical day-to-day usage. Lean leverages this incredible investment into making e processes better. Lean thinking focuses on giving customers what they want, when and where they want it, without wasted effort or wasted time.
Tom and Mary speak all over the world, but we've been able to bring them in at a very special rate. If you've ever considered taking this class, it'll be cheaper to travel to RTP and take the class than wait for it come to you locally! If you're in RTP, please take this opportunity to improve your team, but to also help make the entire RTP area even better. We're already a high-tech hotspot. Let's continue to build up RTP and make it the number place to come when you want software built right.
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