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I often take SWA from BWI

Some people like to keep up with these sorts of things…

• Baltimore chapter of ASQ, 25 Jan 2011,
• CMMI Crash Course, Live webinar, Feb 4 2011,
• DC SPIN, 2 March 2011
• The ISO9000 Conference, Austin, TX, 15 March 2011,
• SEI’s SEPG, Portland, OR, 21-24 March 2011,
• Agile Israel 2011, Tel Aviv, 11 April 2011,
• Lean Systems and Software Conference, Long Beach, CA, 2-9 May 2011, and
• Agile Development Practices-West, Las Vegas, NV, 6-8 June 2011.

I hope to see some of you at one of these events.

I’ll post updates to other events as they are confirmed.

So, by way of my good friend, David Anderson, and the incredibly sharp Israel Gat, I’m now a Senior Consultant at the Cutter Consortium.  I’m quite humbled and honored.  First that David would consider me worthy of such a recommendation, and then that Israel would consider me as befitting among Cutter’s ranks.

Part of being with the consortium includes providing predictions for the coming year.

More Agile Orgs will Attain Higher Levels of Organizational Maturity

2010 saw the rapid growth of quantitatively-driven performance improvement among organizations serious about getting lean and seeing results. Much of this can be attributed to newer techniques in agile practices such as Kanban for software, and related awareness resulting from these practices.

Organizations getting serious about real, measurable improvement … read more