2011: Another big year

Some highlights (the work-related ones anyway):

  • Feb: Set up Positive Incline Limited
  • Feb: Kanban Leadership Workshop (aka Kanban Coaching Workshop) with David Anderson in London
  • Mar-Sep: Continued part-time dev management role in Budapest, Hungary (and a big thank you to my former colleagues at Encore International, now part of M&C Energy Group)
  • Mar-May: Kanban consultancy in Johannesburg, South Africa as a DJA&A associate
  • Jun: The Kanban Leadership Retreat in Reykjavic, Iceland (#klris)
  • Oct-Nov: The Lean/Kanban conferences in Antwerp and Munich and the LESS conference in Stockholm (#lkbe11, #lkce11 and #less2011 respectively)
  • Nov: Speaking to my local (Matlock) business networking group about Kanban. Not just for techies! (#MBCnetworking)
  • Dec: Joined DJA&A full-time (more on that next year)
  • Dec: Leading my first 2-day DJA&A Kanban class in London

Top posts of 2011:

Older posts still going strong:

Upcoming

A busy few weeks ahead:

  1. Sept 21: Limited WIP Society Manchester, Manchester, England
  2. Sept 29-30: Pre-conference Kanban tutorial at Agile Cambridge, Cambridge, England
  3. Oct 3-4: Lean & Kanban Benelux (LKBE 2011), Stuurboord, Antwerp, Belgium
  4. Oct 17-19: Lean & Kanban Central Europe (LKCE 2011), Munich, Germany
  5. Oct 30-Nov 2: Conference on Lean Enterprise Software and Systems (LESS 2011), Stockholm, Sweden

I have good reason reason to be excited about all of these:

Manchester is the closest big city to my home since I moved away from London in 2009; props to Ian for getting this meetup up and running.  While we here, I must mention Zsolt and the Budapest meetup that I attended this week.

The Kanban tutorial in Cambridge with David Anderson kick-starts what we hope will be become a regular training offering in the UK.  And yes, I’m an associate, currently the only one based in the UK.

I look forward to LKBE and LKCE not just as speaking opportunities but as the chance to catch up with some of the people who have challenged and inspired my thinking over the past couple of years.

LESS is where we reach out and learn from other communities and disciplines.  And I can’t wait to return to Sweden – I just wish I had held on to more of my childhood Swedish!

Anyway… I hope to see you at one or more of these great events.  Look me up!