This month's meeting we will focus on Process Improvement which will include 4 presentations from Alan Dayley, Joseph Sinclair, and Bryan O'Neal. Alan Dayley An experience in Lean Development The ideas of lean manufacturing have surprising application in the production of software. We will review the principles of Lean Software Development and then experience of taste of their use with often surprising results. The Essential Principles of Kanban Kanban is not just putting stickies on a wall. Kanban is not a process but is an improvement management technique for any process. Without the principles, your stickies on the wall might not give you more than just interesting decoration. About Alan: After more than 25 years as a software engineer, Alan discovered the thrill of the human side of creative endeavors. He has spent the past seven years helping people re-learn to enjoy working and creating. He has helped many teams and companies embrace new ideas for interaction that produce better results. He continues to cheer FOSS creators and users from the sidelines. Joseph Sinclair Why everything you're doing probably doesn't matter Everyone in the business world wants to improve the business results. As software and software engineering become ever more critical across every area of business, much time and effort is being focused on modern software engineering process and software process improvement (both in development and operations). The Theory of Constraints (ToC), however, highlights the core cognitive gap which results in the majority of software process improvement efforts failing to materially improve results. In this very short introduction we'll cover a few basic premises from ToC and one simple step you can take right now to help capture material business results from your current process improvement efforts. About Joseph: Joseph has been working with computers for substantially longer than he'd care to admit, but the first computer he wrote software on had a whopping 16K of RAM. Joseph first used Unix in 1989, and Linux in 1995. He has spent the last 10 years focused on developing software systems supporting Internet-scale solutions using a wide variety of distributed technologies, including Hadoop, Mesos, Spark, Storm, Riak, HAProxy, LXC, and Docker (among many others). Joseph has also been a champion of software process improvement culture since the late 1990's, and has led or supported several teams and companies in transition to more effective software engineering processes. Bryan O'Neal Principles of Agile Development for beginners Presentation will go over the philosophy of agile development and provide a quick overview of scrum and kanban methodologies About Bryan: MySQL DBA, programmer, and general geek. Currently working on improving the data systems for the worlds largest authoritative DNS representing ~30% of the worlds domains and one of the worlds largest certificate authority representing ~25% of the worlds PKI. --- The meeting will start at 7pm at The Desert Breeze Substation. People start arriving as early as 6pm, so if you would like to help setup and/or chat for a while, arrive a little early. We go for food/discussion afterward the meeting to BJs at the nearby mall. Meeting Location: Desert Breeze Substation 251 North Desert Breeze Blvd Chandler, AZ 85226 The Desert Breeze Substation is on Chandler Blvd and Desert Breeze Blvd, which is half way between McClintock and Rural. It is very close to both the south 202 and 101 freeways. Public transportation is available into the late hours. See http://phxlinux.org/meetings/14-east-valley-meeting.html for a map and other info. See you there, Brian Cluff _______________________________________________ PLUG-announce mailing list - PLUG-announce@lists.phxlinux.org http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce PLUG Website at http://plug.phoenix.az.us --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss