About a month ago I was contacted by Kjersti Sandberg at Programutvikling. She asked if I knew about any companies in Bergen that would be interested in having a full day seminar with Mary Poppendieck. I figured this was a great opportunity and contacted some of the companies I knew in Bergen. Webstep found this very interesting and invited customers and employees for a full day seminar with Mary.

At the same time I asked if she would be interested in doing a talk at NNUG, which she did! So, If you haven’t seen this already, the invite is out, so go sign up (for free!).

Mary is well known for her experience and knowledge within the Lean and Agile community:

Mary Poppendieck has been in the Information Technology industry for over thirty years. She has managed software development, supply chain management, manufacturing operations, and new product development. She spearheaded the implementation of a Just-in-Time system in a 3M video tape manufacturing plant and led new product development teams, commercializing products ranging from digital controllers to 3M Light Fiber^TM.

Mary is a popular writer and speaker, and coauthor of the book Lean Software Development, which was awarded the Software Development Productivity Award in 2004. A sequel, Implementing Lean Software Development, was published in 2006. A third book, Leading Lean Software Development, will be published in late 2009.

Please feel free to forward this to anyone within your company or to your friends, because this event has a much broader crowd than the usual NNUG crowd of developers and architects. At least your manager should have this in her/his inbox by Monday morning