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Scrum expert Martine Devos returns to Skills Matter this September with her highly-popular certified Scrum Master and Estimation Class. Drawing on decades of practical experience, over two days Martine Devos' ScrumMaster and Estimation class will teach you the fundamental principles of Scrum, qualifying you as a Certified ScrumMaster.

Following 2010's successful Agile, Lean & Kanban eXchange, we return again in February with another exciting event for our community. We are still putting the programme together, but we already have Uncle Bob Martin confirmed as keynote speaker!

Kevin Ryan takes a tour through some of his experiences in the application of Kanban in IT solution development. This session describes what Kanban is and how it has helped to support organisations achieve lean agile delivery.

"Lean" creator and Agile legend Mary Poppendieck returns to Skills Matter this September. We are very excited to have Mary join us for an in-depth and engaging talk to examine the way in which the pace of software delivery influences – and is influenced by – the development process, the business model, and the governance system.

This month the Limited WIP Society presents an experience report by Nader Talai, an active member of the London agile community. Nader will present his experiences working with a geographically spread team accross two location in UK and two sites in India.

This intensive two day workshop aimed at leaders will help you apply lean principles such as Rapid Response, Constant Learning, Built-in Quality, Local Responsibility and Global Optimization to software development. This is the only time Tom & Mary Poppendieck are scheduled to visit the UK in 2011!

In this talk, Mary Poppendieck will compare and contrast the openings of Beijing Capital Airport Terminal 3 and Heathrow Terminal 5 and present the lessons they hold for anyone switching on complex systems that absolutely must be on time, and must work well—starting the very first day.

A course for anybody who works in web development and wants to do it better using what works from both Agile and Lean methodologies.

A new approach to thinking about project management for web development inspired by the hugely successful Lean approaches developed by Toyota.