Kanban Leadership Retreat Europe is back in Mayrhofen

June 15-17, 2022
Mayrhofen, Austria

Register soon and enjoy early bird pricing through December 31.

Join with leaders and enthusiasts in the Kanban space to explore, challenge, and connect on our shared passion for Kanban. So many ideas and materials that make The Kanban Method what it is today have come out of Kanban Leadership Retreats. Kanban University was literally founded at KLR in 2011!

Kanban Leadership Retreat is the conference that is built by the participants. There is no set agenda ahead of time. The sessions and discussions are planned and driven by you for you. Bring your ideas and challenges and be prepared to get deep into Kanban!

EXPLORE

Go deeper into existing concepts. Stretch the boundaries on Cost of Delay, Metrics, Flow, Games, Maturity Levels, and more.

CHALLENGE

Question and confront established ideas. Present new material and advance the field of Kanban.

CONNECT

Put your heads together and create something new. Or, come together to offer advice regarding a challenge.

The venue for the Kanban Leadership Retreat is the beautiful Europahaus in Mayrhofen, Austria.

Your hotel room will be booked at Alpendomizil Hotel Neuhaus, only 180 meters from the conference venue. Situated in the heart of Mayrhofen, Alpendomizil Neuhaus enjoys a quiet location in the beautiful Zillertal Valley.

Discover the Zillertal Valley on Thursday and Friday during the mid-day extended break. Maybe you are up for hiking, biking or climbing? Take the cable cars up to the mountains to have lunch. Or simply relax at the hotel.

Kanban Leadership Retreat will follow all Europahaus Mayrhofen Covid-19 measures to ensure a safe event for attendees.

November News & Views from the Kanban Community

In This Issue

Kanban Community Days: From the Community for the Community (German)

Getting Started with Kanban, Part 1: Interview with Anna Radzikowska

Limiting WIP with Daniel Ploeg

How to Manage Defects Effectively (Without Moving Cards Backward on Your Board)

Why Kanban Is More Than a Visualization Board

Resilience and Agility through Evolutionary Change and Kanban Maturity Model

The Evolution of Agile: Kanban and Beyond

Kanban Clinic with Dave White

Accountability – The Magic Ingredient for Business Agility and Resilience

Top Reasons Why Companies Use Kanban [Infographic]

Kanban Community Days: From the Community for the Community (German)

Online | November 15-16 | 13:30-21:30 CET

Kanban University is excited to sponsor Kanban Community Days 2021. The Kanban user groups and communities for Limited WiP Society from all over German-speaking countries have organized this virtual conference to focus on the benefits and effects of flow-based work called Kanban. Follow the event on Twitter @kanbandays.

Getting Started with Kanban, Part 1: Interview with Anna Radzikowska, Accredited Kanban Trainer and Coach

Do you have agility initiatives in your organization? You may or may not be satisfied with the current results, but nevertheless you want to learn more about the Kanban Method. Mauvisoft talked to Anna Radzikowska, Accredited Kanban Trainer and Certified Kanban Coach, who specializes in teaching Kanban world newcomers. Read part one of a series of interviews and find out how you should start your Kanban journey, what problems you may face and how to overcome them.

Limiting WIP with Daniel Ploeg

Accredited Kanban Trainer Daniel Ploeg combines his love of Kanban with his love of home brewing to explain the practice of limiting work in progress (WIP). With knowledge work being intangible, it can be hard to see what your capacity actually is. In this video, Daniel helps you understand your WIP limit and what happens when you go over it.

How to Manage Defects Effectively (Without Moving Cards Backward on Your Board)

A common scenario that often triggers teams to move cards backward on your Kanban board is handling defects during the ‘Testing’ phase. Way too often, when teams discover an issue with the implementation, they move the card back into the ‘Development’ state. This approach is ineffective not only because it contradicts the nature of knowledge work, but also because it has the potential to prevent you from discovering opportunities for improvement. There is a better way to handle this scenario.

Why Kanban Is More Than a Visualization Board

There’s a sentence that I hear over and over again that kind of irks me, and maybe you’ve heard it too? “We’re doing Kanban, we have a Kanban board.” While having a Kanban board is important, you are not really practicing Kanban with this alone. Kanban is really tricky for most people to get their heads around because it’s so much more about culture than process. To understand the cultural aspect of Kanban, we have to remove ourselves from thinking about a project and think of it instead as a practice.

Resilience and Agility through Evolutionary Change and Kanban Maturity Model

Check out this video of Todd Little and Joey Spooner’s Experience Report from Agile India Lite 2021. Agility is the ability to adapt to changing situations. Resilience is the ability to withstand adversity. As organizations have discovered, agility alone is not sufficient; resilience is needed as well. Both are fundamental to the Kanban Method. Join Todd and Joey as they share how the Kanban Method can start your evolutionary change towards both agility and resilience.

The Evolution of Agile: Kanban and Beyond

Kanban was the start of the evolution of Agile. Michael K Sahota tips his hat to David Anderson for creating the movement and for the t-shirt. For Michael, it was a key step to his understanding of the Evolution of Agile itself: How to integrate and understand Agile in relation to culture, leadership and how we think about organizational change management.

Elevate Change Podcast: Kanban Clinic with Dave White

“One reason that the Kanban Method was created, was to make life better for people.”
~Dave White

In this episode of the Lean On Agile (& Elevate Change) podcast, Dave White joins Shahin Sheidaei to talk about Kanban and indulge in an in-depth conversation on Kanban going mainstream, consulting, Kanban vs others, training, and much more.

Accountability – The Magic Ingredient for Business Agility and Resilience

In a low maturity market, a lack of leadership is often cited as the reason behind poor customer service, unpredictable, untrustworthy service delivery, and a lack of speed, agility, and effectiveness. However, what we see is a lack of accountability. Accountability catalyzes the required and latent leadership to enable high maturity performance and a platform where Kanban can deliver 8x improvements in productivity and more than a 90% reduction in lead times.

Top Reasons Why Companies Use Kanban [Infographic]

The team at Kanbanize has always been searching to answer the question “Why do more and more companies use Kanban?” Not just because they want to satisfy their curiosity, but because they want to find a rational explanation. So, they decided to dig deeper and try to discover the main reasons behind the Method’s popularity.

Get to Know Sudipta Lahiri and Henning Wolf

Just a few more Kanban University Distinguished Fellows interviews to share for this year’s inaugural class! This month, Todd Little talks with Sudipta and Henning about the Kanban University community and their experiences in Kanban during the past 10 years.

​Watch their videos below.

How has Kanban and the Kanban community evolved over the past ten years?

“While we might be a much smaller community when compared to Scrum or SAFe, I think that if I look at the amount of new intellectual property that is created in a single community, the Kanban community would beat all others hands down. I don’t think there is any other community which is making such a significant, completely new thought process in terms of how organizations can improve their business agility.”

Sudipta Lahiri
Head of Products at Digité

What do you value most about the Kanban University community?

​”It’s a cool community because people are willing to share their experience and there are many people that really are interested in diving deep into a lot of problems, so I don’t have to! That’s great, not only for me personally, but for a lot of people who don’t have the time to do all this digging themselves.”

Henning Wolf
Leader at it-agile GmbH and Selbstfuehren.de

Clear Guidance, Immediate Improvement:

Kanban Global Summit Workshops and Labs

Early Bird pricing ends October 31st

When you attend the Kanban Global Summit, you will hear talks from world leaders sharing their experiences with the Kanban Method, PLUS you’ll participate in hands-on activities during interactive workshops and Learning Labs.

Learn from real-world examples, get answers to your specific questions, and address your challenges while connecting with Kanban experts and enthusiasts. Return to your organization with practical skills you can put to work immediately, where you are now!

Meet two of our KGS22 speakers who will equip you with clear guidance that can be applied for immediate improvements.

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.

Why Should You Take the Train the Trainer Class?

Watch the video below to hear instructor Helen Meek explain

Kanban University Accredited Kanban Trainers (AKTs) have reached a significant milestone in their Kanban journey. Once approved, AKTs are able to teach the foundation classes: Team Kanban Practitioner, Kanban System Design, and Kanban Systems Improvement.

With an AKT accreditation, it shows the world and your students that you are among an exclusive group of professionals who have demonstrated a high level of mastery of The Kanban Method.

This includes:

• Attaining the Kanban Management Professional Credential
• Having enough practical Kanban implementation experience to write a quality case study

And that’s all before you even take the Train the Trainer (TTT) class!

Take the next step on your Kanban development path and get accredited as an AKT with our TTT courses open for registration below.

Upcoming Train the Trainer Classes 

December 5 – 10, 2021

Trainers: Todd Little & Amit Kaulagekar
Language: English
1:00 pm to 10:00 pm India Standard Time
2:30 am to 11:30 am Eastern Standard Time US
8:30 am to 5:30 pm Central European Time

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

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

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

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

October News & Views from the Kanban Community

In This Issue

Free Masterclass: How to Plan Your Next Release Without Counting Hours (or Story Points)

Upcoming Webinar: The Kanban Maturity Model – What’s New?

Free Masterclass: The Preventable Pandemic: Stop the Transformationitis and the Reorganizationitis

Kanban Coaching Exchange: Kanban, Squirrels and the Alternative Path to Agility with Andre Suman

Kanban Brazil 2021: Resiliência Para Tempos Incertos

Kanban Community Days 2021 (German)

New Kanban Resources in Russian

Emerging Roles in Kanban

Elevate Change Podcast: Kanban Clinic with Joey Spooner

5 Things You Need to Know About Lead Time

Free Masterclass: How to Plan Your Next Release Without Counting Hours (or Story Points)

October 12: 17:00 UTC, 19:00 CEST, 1:00 pm EDT
October 13: 7:00 UTC, 9:00 CEST, 3:00 am EDT
October 13: 15:00 UTC, 17:00 CEST, 11:00 am EDT

Join Nave’s free masterclass where Founder Sonya Siderova will share the model that doesn’t rely on guesswork, intuition or gut feeling. With this strategy, you’ll only need a couple of minutes to offer a reliable delivery commitment.

Upcoming Webinar: The Kanban Maturity Model – What’s New?

Thursday, October 14
18:00 CEST
12:00 pm EDT

It has been one year since the release of the 2nd Edition of the Kanban Maturity Model and the announcement of the KMM+ platform. This October, the team meets again to talk about what is new with the KMM and what is yet to come. Join the authors of the KMM, David J Anderson and Teodora Bozheva, as well as KMM+ product manager Anna Radzikowska. The webinar will take a look at what updates have been made to the model, including new leadership material, new project and portfolio management material, and KMM and KMM+ plans.

Free Masterclass
The Preventable Pandemic: Stop the Transformationitis and the Reorganizationitis

Monday, October 18, 2021
16:30 CEST
10:30 am EDT

How does the Kanban Method help you transform your organization by adapting to its evolution without falling into “transformationitis” or “reorganizationitis.” Todd Little, Chairman of Kanban University, and Joey Spooner, Vice President of Community Development and Product Management, will present a Masterclass during Netmind’s Adaptive Organizations Week. The free virtual event enables attendees to share experiences and reflect on how to help organizations adapt flexibly and quickly to a complex and rapidly changing world.

Kanban, Squirrels and the Alternative Path to Agility with Andre Suman

Thursday, October 21, 2021
​19:30 to 21:00 CEST
1:30 pm to 3:00 pm EDT

Discover a great Kanban case based on acts of leadership, autonomy, courage, and a small dose of trickery. The IT area of a large bank present in Brazil is one of the world’s biggest cases of agility, with more than 200 teams and 5000 people directly involved. Until the beginning of 2017, the projects used Scrum (70%), Waterfall (30%), in addition, architecture, security, support teams, and others without a specific work model. Agile Coaches identified teams where Scrum was not “Fit for Purpose” and the Kanban Method emerged as an alternative path to Agility.

Kanban Brazil 2021: Resiliência Para Tempos Incertos

ONLINE
25 a 28 de Outubro de 2021

O Kanban Brazil 2021 será ONLINE nas tardes de 25 a 28 de Outubro com keynotes confirmados de David Anderson, Alisson Vale, Janice Linden-Reed e Rodrigo Yoshima.

Kanban Community Days 2021 (German)

Montag bis Dienstag 15. + 16. November 2021
13:30 – 21:30 CEST
7:30 am – 3:30 pm EDT

Diese Plattform zum Austausch ist geboren aus der Pandemie und mittlerweile nicht mehr wegzudenken. Unser Motto ist: “Von der Community für die Community”. Wir haben eine Menge an Bodenhaftung und fokussieren uns voll auf den Nutzen und Effekt von flussbasiertem Arbeiten mit dem Namen “Kanban”. Bei uns sind alle willkommen, die sich davon ein Bild machen wollen. Neugierige Anfänger genauso wie alte Hasen.

New Kanban Resources in Russian

Всем привет! Two essential Kanban resources are now available in Russian. Mauvisoft has released the Triage Tables Poster and Kanban University has translated the Official Guide to the Kanban Method. Get your copies today!

Emerging Roles in Kanban

Kanban has always been the “start with what you do now” method, and no one gets a “new role, responsibilities, or job titles” at least not initially. However, it is now clear that some roles are emerging in the field with some implementations. Take a look at some of the emerging roles with this new post by Anna Radzikowska.

Elevate Change Podcast: Kanban Clinic with Joey Spooner

The Elevate Change podcast featured Kanban University’s Joey Spooner interviewed by Shahin Sheidaei as part of the #KanbanClinic series. The conversation includes these topics: Kanban as a Method vs a Tool; Upstream and Delivery Stream; Stealth Kanban; KLR and Kanban Week; Q&A with Joey; Scrum and/vs Kanban in large organizations; Kanban in Transformation world; Chaos being hidden as Expedite.

5 Things You Need to Know About Lead Time

Have you ever heard of lead time? Lead Time is the amount of time between process initiation and completion. Discover in more detail some relevant aspects that will help you in your professional and personal life with this video from the David J Anderson School of Management.