In This Issue

• Kanban Australia 2023 Conference Program is Set
• How Can Managers Save Budget and Deliver on Time?
• Delay: The Kanban Word for Snow
• Is There A Goal In Kanban?
• Webinar: Build Kanban Views in Azure DevOps
• Nurturing Change & Resilience: AgileNCR 2023
• Scenes from Kanban Brazil 2023
• Hot Off the Press! Discovering Kanban

Kanban Australia 2023 Conference Program is Set

October 9, 2023

Jasper Hotel

Melbourne, Australia

The newly announced conference program for Kanban Australia 2023 brings you a wide range of speakers and topics exploring many facets of Kanban with the purpose of Sharing, Learning, and Connecting. Kanban Australia also features a session where practitioners can meet/reconnect and collaborate in conversation. If you don’t have your tickets yet, register below!

How Can Managers Save Budget and Deliver on Time? KMM Plus Talks to Joey Spooner

Would you like to know how managers can save money and still deliver on time? Watch this third episode of the KMM Plus Talks interview with Joey Spooner, Vice President for Community Development and Product Management at Kanban University (AKC, AKT, KCP, KMP, SKP), and explore how Kanban can help. This series dives into the topics of evolutionary change and business outcomes you can get using the Kanban Method.

In case you missed them, catch up on episode one and episode two of Joey’s interview.

Kanban Coaching Exchange – Delay: The Kanban Word for Snow with Fernando Cuenca

Thursday, October 5

7:30 pm CEST

6:30 pm BST

1:30 pm EDT

10:30 am PDT

Kanban emphasizes the need to understand delays better, akin to the Inuit’s 50 different words for snow, which can be used to convey a more nuanced understanding around something. Join Fernando Cuenca (Kanban University AKC, AKT, KCP, KMP) as his Kanban Coaching Exchange talk delves into identifying and addressing various types of delays in processes for improved efficiency.

Is There A Goal In Kanban?

Helen Meek (AKC, AKT, KCP, KMP) says at least once a week she hears someone say something like ‘Our people like Scrum as it gives them a goal to drive towards, in Kanban there is no goal and they feel like they are on a hamster wheel.”

To that she exclaims “What a load of rubbish!! There is absolutely no reason you cannot have a goal. When working on deliveries they are a great thing to have to keep the team driven and to understand if we are on track. They might not be applicable for all types of work that you do. But you can decide that!”

Webinar: Build Kanban Views in Azure DevOps

Wednesday, September 27, 2023

8:00 – 9:00 pm CEST
7:00 – 8:00 pm BST
2:00 – 3:00 pm EDT
11:00 AM – 12:00 pm PDT

If you have been looking for a way to build Kanban views in Azure DevOps, this Kanban University Partner Webinar with iTrellis is for you. Join Christopher Johnson, Product Owner for Portfolio++™, and learn how to use this Azure DevOps extension in support of common development ceremonies ranging from multiple team meetings to daily team planning meetings.

Nurturing Change & Resilience: AgileNCR 2023

December 1 – 2, 2023

Gurgaon, India

Live Virtual Conference

Generative AI is disrupting the world – and thereby increasing market dynamics, unbundling value chains, and evolving role expectations. Staying ahead and being a leader in the digital age is crucial to an enterprise’s survival. Organizations know they need to change by innovating in much shorter time frames. But how should they do so?

In this upcoming Live Virtual conference, join Xebia and Agile enthusiasts of the NCR region to explore the impact of generative AI in business agility, changing landscape of leadership, DevOps & platform engineering, and more. Conference presentations are suitable for beginner to expert level adopters of Agile.

Scenes from Kanban Brazil 2023

Congratulations to Rodrigo Yoshima (Kanban University Fellow, AKC, AKT, KCP, KMP) and the teams at Aspercom and Kanbanize for a successful Kanban Brazil last week! If you were not able to attend in person, the next best thing is following all the activity on social media. Check out the #KBR23 hashtag on LinkedIn to see all the updates, images, and videos for yourself.

All photos by Rodrigo Yoshima.

Hot Off the Press! Discovering Kanban – The Evolutionary Path to Enterprise Agility

Join Mathias Tölken (KCP, KMP, ESPP) and David J Anderson, Kanban thought leader and author, as they engage in a substantive conversation to explore the various facets of David’s newest book – “Discovering Kanban” and the “Better with Kanban” Series. This is the first in a four-volume series providing complete coverage of the Kanban Method and its implementation. This volume tells the origin story of Kanban and the story of how concepts from physical industries were adapted and adopted for modern 21st-century intellectual work, illustrating it with early success stories.

In This Issue

• “Advanced Kanban Boards” App for Jira – Kanban University Partner Webinar Series
• Kanban Conferences in Brazil and Australia are Fast Approaching
• Crafting Effective Policies for New Teams in Kanban
• Expedites Are Bad For Your System!
• Online/In-Person Training Survey
• Sources of Delay: Failure Demand
• The Top 3 Overlapping Values Between Scout Principles and Kanban
• Ruby Explains Work in Progress (WiP) Limits

“Advanced Kanban Boards” App for Jira – Kanban University Partner Webinar Series

Click below to watch the story of successful evolutionary change that comes from using Scrum with Kanban empowered by the “Advanced Kanban Boards” App for Jira. Discover how Advanced Kanban Boards for Jira can enable your team to achieve faster deliveries, improve time to market, and easily evolve their Scrum implementation using Kanban practices. Any questions? Email support@releasemanagement.app or submit a support request.

Kanban Conferences in Brazil and Australia are Fast Approaching

Don’t miss your chance to get together in-person with Kanban friends and colleagues at the next two conferences in September and October. Grab one of the last spots at Kanban Brazil before registration closes on September 6th. Make sure to check out the additional workshops available before and after Kanban Australia.

Crafting Effective Policies for New Teams in Kanban: Kanban Lab Podcast

In this episode of the Kanban Lab podcast, Orod Semsarzadeh (AKT, KMP) and Soma Mazumder (AKT, KCP, KMP, KPP) shared their experience with writing effective team policies (rules). They talked about making policies that matter based on their own experiences, and gave practical advice such as policies should be short and clear and the team should all agree on the policies. When everyone understands and agrees on the policies, the team can work well together and succeed. This talk is helpful for leaders, coaches, and managers who want to guide their teams well.

Expedites Are Bad For Your System!

Helen Meek (AKC, AKT, KCP, KMP) plays the ‘Get Kanban’ game a lot as part of her Kanban System Design Class and it never ceases to amaze her how reactive people are to expedite a ticket for whatever reason. This is also reflective of what she sees in real life. The team is busy working away and then a ticket comes crashing in and everyone stops to jump on this, and no one batters an eyelid. Do we not know how bad expedites are for your system? Check out Helen’s thoughts on the newly relaunched RippleRock blog.

Online/In-Person Training Survey

Have a minute? Help the David J Anderson School of Management team by sharing your feedback! They want to know if “back to the office” also means “back to in-person instructor-led training.” Please share your opinion via this link below.

Sources of Delay: Failure Demand

Fernando Cuenca (AKC, AKT, KCP, KMP) continues his exploration of Sources of Delay with this Failure Demand blog. If value demand is what motivates us to do the work that is part of our mission, and arguably we’d like to do more of it, failure demand constitutes requests for work that 1) originates in the delivery of the first kind of demand, 2) it’s remedial in nature, and 3) we’d like to do less of. Fernando includes things like defect fixes and production incidents, but also manual (follow-up) work, workarounds, training issues, and deliberate technical debt. Start by understanding the nature of your demand, its cost of delay and impact, and then make decisions like capacity allocation, classes of service, and root cause elimination.

The Top 3 Overlapping Values Between Scout Principles and Kanban

In today’s dynamic and fast-paced world, embracing change and driving digital transformation is crucial for success. As a leader responsible for product management, it is essential to draw inspiration from various sources to guide our teams effectively.

One such source of inspiration in Elisabeth Mero Santucci’s (KMP) life is the Scout movement, founded by Robert Baden-Powell, which instills timeless principles of helping others and leaving the world a better place. Surprisingly, these principles resonate remarkably well with Kanban, a powerful method for managing the workflow of knowledge and driving continuous improvement.

Ruby Explains Work in Progress (WiP) Limits

We all know that the more cars on the road, the slower the traffic goes. However, when it comes to applying this in our everyday work we seem to think the busier we are, the more we’ll get done.

Matt Evans (AKT, KMP) shares how his awesome Jack Russell Terrier helps us to look at Work in Progress limits.

The original “Blue Book,” Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business, was written almost fifteen years ago and has sold over 100,000 copies; it has been translated into thirteen languages.

Discovering Kanban is the first in a four-volume series providing complete coverage of the Kanban Method and its implementation at very large, enterprise-scale implementations that span the entirety of modern enterprises.

This first volume tells the origin story of Kanban, the story of how concepts from physical industries were adapted and adopted for modern 21st-century work, illustrating with early success stories from Microsoft and two other modern technology businesses based in Seattle and San Francisco.

The concepts introduced here provide a foundation for the whole series and the complete Method. It is a must-read book for anyone tasked with leading and managing modern enterprises.