Kanban is a famous lean technique for managing software projects. Actually, it's being used to manage so many types of projects even outside the software domain because of its simplicity and effectiveness. In Software, it's becoming a very famous counterpart to Scrum. Many teams starts with Kanban right away, and keep some practices from Scrum. Others, on the other side, start from Scrum, and move slowly to Kanban. In this dynamic workshop, we will learn and practice Kanban. We will use the getKanban opensource toolkit v2.0, which is a simulation game for managing a project from start to end using a real Kanban board and related charts and metrics. It will be fun, and full of learning at the same time.

1. LET’S PLAY KANBAN
AGILE MIDDLE EAST
DUBAI - 2016
Amr Noaman
Agile Trainer and Consultant
Agile Academy

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3. Amr Noaman Abdel-Hamid
Co-initiator of Egypt’s GoAgile program at
2011, to boost lean & agile software
development in Egypt – Trained hundreds of
trainees and worked with tens of
companies.
Agile practitioner, coach,
trainer, consultant, writer
and lecturer ICAgile Authorized Instructor
SCEA, CSP, 6σ black-belt for IT
Author in international
magazines (IEEE, Infoq), and
speaker at global conferences
(Agile Conference, PMI Global
Congress)
Co-founder of
Agile Academy
Egypt Lean and Agile Network
Agile Egypt
Email: amr@agileacademy.co
Blog: amr.agileegypt.org
Twitter: @AmrNoaman

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7. Up to 80% of business activity time is lost in
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