Get to Know Wolfgang Wiedenroth and Priyank Pathak

Our Kanban University Distinguished Fellows interviews continue! This month, Todd Little talks with Wolfgang and Priyank about their Kanban journeys and how the Kanban University community has evolved in 10 years.

​Watch below to hear more.

How have you seen the Kanban community evolve over the last 10 years?

“In the beginning, it was a bunch of people seeking knowledge – how to find a good way to improve work and how they can do that with Kanban. Today, it’s more about people spreading the word. We have a good understanding of how things work. It’s less searching and more talking and helping people. So the community itself was looking for answers and today we are sharing our knowledge and spreading what we have found.”

Wolfgang Wiedenroth
Trainer, Consultant, Flowmaker for Business Agility
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How have you seen the Kanban community evolve?

“As a community, it has transformed completely over the last 10 years. You see various conference and retreats happening across the globe. Along with that, you see a lot of new courses and a lot of new people. There are amazing people at Kanban University and, as a community, new faces and value adding people have joined. It has grown, it is continuously growing and continuously evolving. As we say, it is pragmatic and it is actionable.”

Priyank Pathak
Founder and CEO
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Meet the Kanban Global Summit 2022 Keynote Speakers

Today is your FINAL DAY for Super Early Bird Pricing

We can’t wait to finally bring you two incredible keynote speakers for Kanban Global Summit 2022. Experience all the Kanban community has to offer when we reunite for the first time in three years in San Diego!

On Monday, March 14, David J Anderson kicks off Kanban Week with The End of Cost of Delay. As the leader of the Kanban movement, he will discuss the future of prioritization using Triage Tables – simple selection, scheduling and priority based on urgency.

Joining us on Tuesday, March 15, Chet Richards will present The Lost Arts of Leadership, Revealed! You’ll learn practices you might not associate with leadership, but are absolutely necessary if you’re going to be effective.

Kanban Week 2022 will follow the CDC’s Covid safety guidelines, along with state and local guidelines for California and the city of San Diego, to ensure a safe event for attendees.

September News & Views from the Kanban Community

In This Issue

Balancing Flow with Bianca Griffioen

The Top 3 Benefits of Introducing Queue States to Your Kanban System Design

Sources of Demand for a Team

Kanban: Can the Tickets Move Backwards?

What Are Your “Eureka” Books?

Kanban Maturity Model Presents KMM Pizza

Design Techniques to Inspire Your Kanban Boards

Kanban India 2021 Features Todd Little Speaking About the 6Ds of Delay

Kanban Coaching Exchange:
Balancing Flow with Bianca Griffioen

Thursday, September 9, 2021
6:30 – 7:30 p.m. CEST
1:30 – 2:30 p.m. EDT

Many multidisciplinary teams are responsible for maintaining a product (or a service) as well as for developing that same product. Telephone calls, emails with seemingly small questions, minor changes and large projects hijack the valuable time of team members. This results in a lack of overview of the work, lack of insight into what work should prevail over other work, and a constant hassle with customers. Can Kanban offer a solution here? Yes, it can! Join the meetup to dig deeper into this!

The Top 3 Benefits of Introducing Queue States to Your Kanban System Design

How can we be more efficient? What are the things holding us back from delivering great customer value, faster? Using queue states within our processes is the cornerstone of achieving high flow efficiency. Introducing queue states to our system designs not only enables us to manage our work effectively, but also uncovers opportunities for improvement that wouldn’t otherwise be visible.

Source of Demand for a Team

Do you understand the demand coming into your team? If you haven’t identified your different sources of demand (it’s usually more than one) for your team, then you might want to do so or risk not being able to effectively respond to the demands. This applies to all kinds of teams including IT, HR, Marketing, Legal, Finance and more.

Kanban: Can the Tickets Move Backwards

We often hear that tickets cannot be moved backwards. But is this true? In fact, tickets can move back, especially if you have detected some defect that relates to a previous stage of development. And yet, this scenario is very undesirable for several reasons.

What Are Your Eureka Books?

“Do you experience sometimes this strange feeling deep in your guts, when reading the book or attending the training, the feeling of eureka!, the revelation (also called trivially the “aha” moment)?” Anna Radzikowska shares how important those books were in her life and the strong and powerful imprint they’ve created.

Kanban Maturity Model Presents KMM Pizza

One of the fan favourite Kanban Maturity Model posters is now available as a video. Watch and learn how a pizza restaurant helps in explaining Kanban maturity levels.

Design Techniques to Inspire Your Kanban Boards

One of the most recognizable features of the Kanban Method is the Kanban board. These boards allow you to have a visual representation of your work. They help with transparency and create a new understanding of workflow. While Kanban boards are not everything there is to Kanban, they do help optimize coordination and communication. Every Kanban board is unique and boards should always be evolving.

Kanban India 2021 Features Todd Little Speaking About the 6Ds of Delay

Online | December 11-12, 2021

Delays are not appreciated in service delivery. Where are all the delays that are impacting your projects or service delivery? Join Todd Little, Chairman of Kanban University, as he shares a personal story of repairing his fence during COVID times and some of the delays that he encountered.

Get to Know Susanne Bartel and Todd Little

Kanban University Chairman Todd Little spoke with new Kanban University Distinguished Fellow, Susanne Bartel, about her contributions to the Kanban community and thoughts on ten years of Kanban University.

​Then Todd jumped into the interviewee’s seat as a Kanban Fellow himself for a conversation with Joey Spooner asking the questions. Watch both Kanban Fellows interviews below.

How have you seen the Kanban community evolve over the last 10 years?

“Kanban was pretty awesome from the start! It was very open and welcoming. I feel over time maybe it matured a bit. It was a bit more nerdy at the beginning with a lot of deep data discussions and metrics. Now you have a lot more marketing, how do we get to people and how can I convince starters or explain things in really simple words. So, I think we definitely moved into the mainstream and also acknowledge the needs of others out there who are often not as nerdy as we are. We need to start at the beginning with them.”

Susanne Bartel
Agile and Kanban Coach, flow.hamburg

What do you value most about our community at Kanban University?

“I think it’s a community of learning and sharing. We’ve got great people that are really trying to improve and trying great things. That comes out of our core roots. At our Kanban Leadership Retreat, we have a slogan – Explore, Challenge, and Connect. I think it’s great to have an environment where so many people have contributed and continue to contribute. I miss our events that we’ve had to cancel due to Covid but we’re coming back! A lot of people are ready to get the band back together and I hope to see a lot of familiar and new faces at our Kanban Global Summit in San Diego in March.”

Todd Little
Chairman, Kanban University

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