At the moment all of our workshop-leaders are out travelling all over the world, but to get some more bits of information about their workshops we send out some short questions that they answer while sitting at some air-port or hotel.  Here are three short ones from Mary Poppendieck about Workshop 1 — Designing a Lean Software Development Process.

Mary, what do you think is the greatest value the pariticpants will get from your workshop?

The greatest value that participants will get from the class will be working in small groups with colleagues to understand a current software development process and discovering what might be the most effective ways to consider improving it. They will also do an exercise in how to go about improving the process.

Who would you say that this workshop is mainly aimed at?

This workshop will be aimed at people who are already using an agile development process and want to get even better.

Can you say something about the relationsship of this workshop to your books and other seminars?

We are currently writing a new book called “Leading Lean Software Development” which consolidates new ideas we have learned over the past two years. It will be available in fall of this year. Topics in this workshop will come from key points we have developed for that book. The workshop will be a mix of tried and true ideas coupled with new ways of looking at the software development process.