XPColumbus

Next Meeting: May 27, 2009

Agenda:
11:30-11:45am: Networking and Pizza
11:45- 12:00pm: XP discussion topic of the month: Scrumban
12:00- 1:00pm: Scrum-ban

Date and Time:
Next XP User Group meeting will be held 11:30 am to 1 pm, May 27th, 2009 at the OCLC Kilgour Building presentation room. Manifest will be sponsoring lunch, so please RSVP to XPUserGroup@CardinalSolutions.com

Scrum-ban
Jon will discuss his experience in taking kanban concepts and 
applying them to agile projects.  He will provide insight as to when 
he has seen Scrum-ban work and times when it has not.  There will be 
open discussion as the group brainstorms on other uses of kanban 
techniques

About the Presenter
Jon founded LeanDog Software Studio in 2008 after 18 years of experience providing IT leadership in both Fortune 500 and start up organizations.  His passion is eliminating waste, optimizing the performance of IT teams and helping organizations become lean and agile. Lean Dog Software is a way to showcase how these ideas make a significant difference in the software development marketplace.

Jon provides extensive hands on experience in organizational transformations to Agile and Lean software methods. He has practiced agile for over 4 years, created 3 agile teams and helped large enterprises develop transformation plans. 

He is an active thought leader in the Agile, Tech and Entrepreneurial Community. In addition to hosting many tech user group meetings at the LeanDog Studio, he has co-founded events such as Ignite Cleveland, Cleveland Startup Weekend, Code Retreat and the Cleveland Give Camp for IT Philanthropy.

He received his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and a minor in Economics from the Ohio State University.  He is currently authoring a book on Lean and Agile Software development practices.  He is married with two children.