Join us for an informal pub evening and get some tips, tricks and techniques you can apply at work.

6:00PM ARRIVAL -- 6:30PM START

Session 1 - Dr W. Edwards Deming's famous Red Bead Experiment
An interactive session where David will demonstrate this classic learning tool to illustrate the impact that a system and traditional management approaches can have on individuals who work within an organisation.

After the experiment there will be a discussion of the issues addressed by the experiment, including: understanding variation in work, the role of the system on the performance of the workers, the effectiveness of managing with slogans, the usefulness of targets, annual appraisals and financial rewards, and how to improve quality.

Session 2 - Wisdom of the Crowd
Keeping the theme this week of being a little interactive, David has a few short presentations that he can give. So on the night he'll give a quick intro to them all and the group can informally vote on the one to be delivered. Maybe you'd like to learn how to design a customer-driven system, hear a case study from the field or just have a Q&A. Come along and vote your choice!

David Joyce

David is an agile coach with 12 years technical team management and coaching experience, and 20 years software development experience. In recent years, using Scrum and XP, David has coached onshore and offshore teams and successfully launched an internet video startup from inception to launch. More recently David has coached teams on Lean, Kanban and Systems Thinking at BBC Worldwide in the UK. David currently works for Thoughtworks as a principal consultant and is a Systems Thinker, Lean practitioner, Kanban coach and certified Scrum Master. David recently received the Lean SSC Brickell Key award for outstanding achievement and leadership.

A frequent figure on the International speaking circuit, in 2010 David has been a speaker at:
- Lean Software & Systems (Atlanta)
- Lean Kanban 2010 (Belgium)
- Agile Australia (Melbourne)
- Less 2010 (Helsinki)