APLN Atlanta Presentation: Mary Poppendieck on Organizational Agility

APLN Atlanta is hosting Mary Poppendieck at the CheckFree Campus Conference Center, Wednesday January 30th at 7:30. The talk is open to the public and everyone is encouraged to attend.

We are very fortunate to have Mary in town. She is a regular speaker at software development conferences worldwide and routinely draws large crowds for her talks. She is dynamic and controversial, a keynote caliber presenter.

Mary Poppendieck Bio

Mary Poppendieck started her career as a process control programmer, moved on to manage the IT department of a manufacturing plant, and then ended up in product development, where she was both a product champion and a department manager. Mary tried to retire in 1998, but instead found herself managing a government software project where she first encountered the word "waterfall". She wrote the award-winning book "Lean Software Development" to explain how the lean principles from manufacturing could be applied to software development. Mary found retirement elusive as she lectured and taught classes with her husband Tom. Based on their on-going learning, they wrote a second book, "Implementing Lean Software Development." Mary continues to be a popular writer and speaker as she continues to bring new ideas to the world of software development.

Abstract : Organizational Agility: What's not in the book?

So, you've got some cross functional teams, you're running in sprints, you're doing stand-ups - Awesome!!! Hm, but alas, it doesn't quite feel agile. What now? In this session, we will listen to Mary Poppendieck talk about what sort of things her experience shows will help in this respect. Some examples of high performance cultures and where organizational change in thinking really occurred. What is involved in having such a change? What are those hidden fundamental organizational process and cultural changes that make the most positive impact? The session is for all audiences, whatever your role in your software organization.The talk will be interactive, with plenty of time for Q&A.

Overview of Lean Software Development from Mary's website
http://www.poppendieck.com/overview.htm

The Role of Leadership in Software Development. A presentation given at Agile 2007.
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/poppendieck-agile-leadership