New Dates for Kanban Leadership Retreat Europe

Early Bird Savings Extended to March 1st

June 15-17, 2022  |  Mayrhofen, Austria

We just couldn’t wait to get to Austria! KLR Europe has moved up one week to June 15-17.

Bring your ideas and challenges to Mayrhofen and be prepared to get deep into Kanban! The lush mountain valley awaits you this summer at our next Kanban Leadership Retreat.

Five Reasons to Attend KLR Europe

• Network with leaders and enthusiasts in the Kanban space, including coaches, trainers, consultants, thought leaders, and practitioners.
• Bring the topics YOU want to discuss and plan the agenda on the first night.
• Go deeper into existing concepts. Stretch the boundaries of Cost of Delay, Metrics, Flow, Games, Maturity Levels, and beyond.
• Question and confront established ideas. Present new material and advance the field of Kanban.
• Bond with other participants during the 5-hour mid-day break in the beautiful local region.

Kanban Leadership Retreat will follow all Europahaus Mayrhofen Covid-19 measures to ensure a safe event for attendees. Pre-Travel Clearance and proof of vaccination now required for all travelers entering Austria. For the most up-to-date Covid travel information, visit the Austrian National Tourist Office.

Kanban Week 2022 Moves to August

Kanban Global Summit, August 22-24
Kanban Leadership Retreat, August 24-26

Rancho Bernardo Inn, San Diego, California

Out of an abundance of caution over the Covid virus, we have rescheduled Kanban Week 2022 to August 22-26. The gorgeous venue and high quality Kanban content remain the same!

Early bird pricing is still available if you register by April 10.

Kanban Global Summit keynote speakers David J Anderson and Chet Richards will join more than 20 Kanban thought leaders to share their experiences with the Kanban Method and offer proven techniques.

Later in the week, the Kanban Leadership Retreat brings the opportunity to explore, challenge and connect on the topics YOU bring to the agenda.

Networking, book signings, delicious meals, and long breaks to explore all that San Diego has to offer will round out a week of work AND play.

It’s been a long time coming and we can’t wait to see you in person again for #KGS22 and #KLR22!

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.

More January News & Views from the Kanban Community

In This Issue

Agile Project Management with Kanban | Eric Brechner | Talks at Google

Kanban Coaching Exchange | The Preventable Pandemic | Joey Spooner

Introducing Kanban to a Team or Organization

Applying Kanban to Sales

Kanban in Practice: Where to Start and How to Excel?

Agile Project Management with Kanban
Eric Brechner | Talks at Google

“Scrum was phenomenal. I used Scrum with my teams for a good 8+ years. And then finally, I discovered this thing called Kanban, and I’ve been using it with my teams for 4 years. And Kanban is just so dramatically simpler, and yet better. It produces higher quality at a much higher rate than anything else that I’ve ever used.” Eric Brechner, former Director of Engineering at Microsoft, explains his love for Kanban in this talk.

Kanban Coaching Exchange | The Preventable Pandemic | Joey Spooner

We are suffering from a horrible pandemic of epic proportions. Organizations throughout the globe are stricken by the contagions of transformationitis and the typical co-infection of reorganizationitis. Fortunately, these diseases are highly avoidable. Joey Spooner, Vice President of Community Development and Product Management at Kanban University, shares how the Kanban Method utilizes evolutionary change to transform your organization without suffering these pandemics.

Introducing Kanban to a Team or Organization

Starting something new is never an easy task. You know you may face resistance. Besides, there is so much information on the Internet, but what are the actions to take? If you are thinking about getting started with Kanban, keep reading. Anna Radzikowska’s expert advice will help you introduce Kanban to your team or organization.

Applying Kanban to Sales

You might not realize it, but there are many parallels between Kanban and Sales. In particular, what we call “Upstream Kanban” is really what Sales are all about. In fact, a really disciplined sales process will usually turn out to be quite a mature Kanban implementation. In this post, Daniel Ploeg examines the similarities and looks at how Kanban can help you with your sales process.

Kanban in Practice: Where to Start and How to Excel?

How do you craft an efficient and sustainable process which aligns people and keeps delivery steady? You need to get your hands dirty; there’s no other way around it. Kanbanize walks you through the multiple ways Kanban is applied in practice. The following are lessons learned from clients in the pharmaceutical, engineering, financial, logistics, and other domains.

Why Kanban?

Great question! The Kanban Method is a management method that improves your existing process or framework using an evolutionary approach.

Watch below to learn the benefits of The Kanban Method in five key concepts.

There’s more to learn about The Kanban Method on our YouTube channel. Subscribe now to see how Kanban helps people and organizations of all sizes and industries become more collaborative, unified, and productive.

Building the Best Trainers of The Kanban Method

At Kanban University, our vision is to teach others our pragmatic way of managing work. We accomplish this by building the best trainers to deliver Kanban knowledge worldwide.

Is becoming an Accredited Kanban Trainer (AKT) your next career move? It starts with getting accredited as an AKT through our Kanban Train the Trainer (TTT) course. Find our courses below in English, Spanish and Russian (NEW!).

2022 Train the Trainer Classes

January 31 – February 11, 2022

Trainer: Bianca Griffioen
Language: English
2:00 pm to 6:00 pm Central European Time
8:00 am to 12:00 pm Eastern Standard Time US

March 28 – April 8, 2022

Trainer: Todd Little
Language: English
9:00 am to 1:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time US
3:00 pm to 7:00 pm Central European Summer Time

May 16 – 27, 2022

Trainer: Fernando Cuenca
Language: Spanish
9:00 am to 1:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time
3:00 pm to 7:00 pm Central European Summer Time

May 16 – 27, 2022

Trainers: Helen Meek & Dan Brown
Language: English
1:00 pm to 5:00 pm British Summer Time
8:00 am to 12:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time US
2:00 pm to 6:00 pm Central European Summer Time

October 10 – 21, 2022

Trainers: Kirill Klimov & Aleksei Pimenov
Language: Russian
4:00 pm to 8:00 pm Kiev/Eastern European Summer Time
9:00 am to 1:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time US
3:00 pm to 7:00 pm Central European Summer Time

November 14 – 25, 2022

Trainers: Helen Meek & Dan Brown
Language: English
1:00 pm to 5:00 pm GMT UK
8:00 am to 12:00 pm Eastern Standard Time US
2:00 pm to 6:00 pm Central European Time

If you don’t find a class that fits your availability, please message us at KU@kanban.university. We collect interest and have the ability to build a class into the schedule that may suit your needs.

January News & Views from the Kanban Community

In This Issue

Kanban Coaching Exchange with Joey Spooner

Do You Really Need Predictability?

Getting Started with Kanban, Part 2: Interview with Anna Radzikowska

13 Best Kanban Software/Tools For Project Management In 2022

Kanban for Lawyers: A Journey to Agility

Flow is King. Agility is a Side-Effect.

Kanban Coaching Exchange with Joey Spooner

Thursday, January 13, 2022
1:30 PM to 2:30 PM EST
6:30 PM to 7:30 PM GMT
7:30 PM to 8:30 PM CET

Join host Helen Meek for the first Kanban Coaching Exchange of 2022! Joey Spooner, Vice President of Community Development and Product Management at Kanban University, will share how the Kanban Method utilizes evolutionary change to transform your organization without suffering the pandemics of transformationitis and reorganizationitis.

Do You Really Need Predictability?

There are certainly business cases where predictability doesn’t actually matter. If you are working upon release dates that take place twice per year and you always meet these deadlines, or there are no deadlines at all and you deliver results whenever you deliver results, why would you need predictability? Click below to look at this question from a slightly different perspective.

Getting Started with Kanban, Part 2: How to Start, Kanban Board vs Kanban Method, Kanban Method Advantages and Challenges

Wondering how to use Kanban in your work? You don’t know where and how to start? Get some ideas from Mauvisoft’s series of interviews with Anna Radzikowska, Accredited Kanban Trainer and Certified Kanban Coach, who specializes in teaching Kanban world newcomers.

13 Best Kanban Software/Tools For Project Management In 2022

In today’s business environment, organizations need to be Agile and flexible enough to keep up with fast-growing market demands. Your work management structure needs to provide a clear plan, process and responsibilities so that critical initiatives can be delivered on time and on budget. With these challenges in mind, Agile and Lean management methods are gaining traction around the world. Taking a fresh approach to an old concept, the core concepts/principles of Kanban remain a way to easily implement Agile and promote enterprise agility. In this article, Digité brings you the 13 Best Kanban Software/Tools that can help you in implementing a Kanban System in your process.

Kanban for Lawyers: A Journey to Agility

The legal services industry is going through an accelerated and highly complex transformation, from which there is no going back. The globalization of all industries, the appearance of disruptive technologies and the digitalization of knowledge services are but a few of the challenges that the legal sector is facing. The greatest challenge is being able to create agile organizations and robust businesses that are capable of reinventing themselves.

Flow is King. Agility is a Side-Effect.

Succinctly put, Flow is the movement and delivery of customer value through a process. Without Flow, our organizations simply cannot endure long enough to deliver value to our customers. Mike Freislich relates his experiences of how to see Flow in your organization, as well as tips and tricks to identify and eliminate impediments to Flow.