Why Kanban?
Why Kanban Might Be Right For You
January News & Views from the Kanban Community
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.
Building the Best Trainers of The Kanban Method
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.
Travel the Accredited Kanban Trainer Path in 2022
Kanban Use Is Gaining Momentum!
2022 is a great time to consider traveling the Accredited Kanban Trainer path and certifying your own Kanban University classes.
We are seeing an increase in Kanban use, and this leads to interest in Kanban training. Going virtual and yet maintaining the same level of interactive training experience is paying off by making Kanban University classes more accessible, but still engaging, actionable, and relevant to students.
Accredited Kanban Trainers (AKTs) teach the Kanban University foundation classes: Team Kanban Practitioner, Kanban System Design, and Kanban Systems Improvement – that spread Kanban across the globe. The AKT accreditation also puts you in an exclusive group of professionals who have demonstrated mastery of the Kanban Method at a high level.
If you have attained the Kanban Management Professional Credential and feel you have enough practical Kanban implementation experience to write a quality case study, then it’s time to take the next step on your Kanban development path.
Get accredited as an AKT with our Kanban Train the Trainer (TTT) courses open for application below.
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
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.
Get to Know Dragos Dumitriu, Dimitar Karaivanov, and Frank Vega
Get to Know Kanban Fellows:
Dragos Dumitriu, Dimitar Karaivanov, and Frank Vega
It has been our pleasure to celebrate the 17 inaugural Kanban University Distinguished Fellows for 2021. We are sharing our final three interviews with Kanban University Chairman Todd Little below.
Watch and learn how Dragos, Dimitar and Frank got started with Kanban, their contributions to the community, and how they have seen it evolve over the past 10 years.
What do you value most about the Kanban community?
“Every time I would go to a conference I would learn something new. We’re all learning and it’s continuous learning. However, I want to differentiate the learning from teaching. Nobody was coming to teach. People were coming to share – to share experiences, to share results, and we all learned. You go to a lot of other conferences and someone is trying to teach you. There’s a bunch of pedantic pontificators out there and they never have any results to show. In this community, people come to talk about results, to talk about their case studies.”
Dragos Dumitriu
Lean Champion at Adobe
How have you seen Kanban and the Kanban community evolve over the past 10 years?
“It has been quite a ride. One thing that I always appreciated about the community is that we get so many brilliant people that always contribute more and more to complete the body of knowledge of Kanban. 10 years ago, 11 year ago, it wasn’t where it is today and I think a great deal of this achievement should be contributed to the community. Kanban University is definitely a trusted partner for us and we will do whatever we can to help you guys grow.”
Dimitar Karaivanov
CEO and co-founder of Kanbanize
What do you value most about the Kanban community?
“It’s the amount of openness and sharing that I see from many of the folks that appear at the conferences, not just in the U.S. but globally. I know that I can ping someone on LinkedIn or reach out to them via email and they’ll share their insights and experiences. For me it’s been very helpful to have that, especially when you work as an independent consultant on your own and not part of an organization on a day-to-day or month-to-month basis.”
Frank Vega
President/CEO of Vega Information System Services, Inc.
#KanbanFellow
Coaching with the Kanban Maturity Model
Coaching with the Kanban Maturity Model
The Kanban Maturity Model codifies more than 10 years of experience implementing Kanban across diverse industries, from small businesses to extremely large enterprises.
At the Kanban Global Summit (March 14-16, 2022), you will learn how to use the KMM to gain a better sense of achievement, provide better products and services, delight your customers, and realize superior business results.
Start with Teodora Bozheva’s interactive introduction to the Kanban Maturity Model. Then see how one organization put it into practice with an experience report from Abigayle Wall and Dharmesh Chavda.
Kanban Global Summit registration is open now with early bird savings available until January 7, 2022. Reserve your spot today!
LEARNING LAB
KMM: Where You Are and How to Evolve
Get an introduction to the Kanban Maturity Model pillars and architecture from the co-author of the Kanban Maturity Model. This interactive workshop shows you how to use the model to better understand the current state of your organization in terms of management practices, culture and purpose. You will leave knowing how to define a roadmap to further evolve your organizational agility.
EXPERIENCE REPORT
Growing a Potato on Mars: Maturing from 0 to 3 at JP Morgan Chase
In this experience report, Abigayle Wall and Dharmesh Chavda will walk through how they leveraged the Kanban Method to overcome challenges from the first pilot to their scaled transformation at JP Morgan Chase.
Hear how they broke the mold to empower teams in a way never tried at their organization before. Follow their evolution to emerging fit for purpose behaviors that balanced demand with capacity, making it the model for the rest of their organization to follow.
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.
