Lean and agile software development

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My public Certified ScrumMaster and Certified Scrum Product Owner trainings are scheduled for the winter 2009/2010.  They  can be seen in ScrumAlliance's site. See first my Bio and then select Courses tab. Alternatively use Tieturi's homepage.

I had a short public talk 1.12.2009 at the Parlament House (Eduskunta) in Helsinki about the acquisition of agile software development projects. See video at Tieke's site.

Profitable path to growth with lean software development  

Global economic downturn has put the lean way of doing software development into focus. We must save and be effective. To be a winner when the economy turns back to growth requires also new better ways of doing our business. In market economy these times are for creative desctruction - times to reorganise, change jobs and start to work in new ways. So let's take this challenge.

Lean thinking has been known for many years. Its exposure to sofware industy was started by the Poppendiecks' books. See their Lean Sofware Development site. Agilists were originally working with Extreme Programming and during the last year the Scrum escalation was the most important thing in this area. But the people in the conferences like Agile2008 Toronto were already thinking about next step. Lean thinking is an obvious choise because Scrum's emprical process control with retrospectives are not as effice as they could be. Finding out what went well and what should be improved is not easy without any ideas about what to look for. Work with valuestreams and eliminating waste is a solution for that.

I still have several homepages around but this is where the progress is done. The contents of the old pages are know transferred here and the Saunalahti site has been shut down. I plan to keep this homepage quite small and put most of the content in the blog. Initial blog stories are there already and I have about 50 new topics in my visions. 

References to my scientific papers are also here though I plan to keep this site rather practical and leave science behind the scene.

I decided to use my own photos, because finding good and surely free pictures  was so difficult. I took some photos in my backyard and posted one of them here. See the  clouds  on the top.

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