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Choose Your Kanban Adventure!

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Choose Your Kanban Adventure!

Will you join our Kanban Leadership Retreat in Europe or the US this summer?

June 15-17
Mayrhofen, Austria

August 24-26
San Diego, CA, USA

From the mountains of Mayrhofen to seaside San Diego, you have a choice for your next Kanban adventure! Kanban Leadership Retreat provides a unique “unconference” environment of learning and advancing the Kanban Method by sharing your experiences and questions with the community. It also provides a respite from your normal work week with long afternoon breaks to get outside for activities or simply relax.

Get ready to EXPLORE, CHALLENGE, AND CONNECT!

Explore KLR Europe
Discover KLR US

Your health and safety is our number one priority.

Nothing beats the connection we have from getting together face to face. We know for many of you this will be the first event you attend in person. Be assured that Kanban Leadership Retreats will adhere to all local and venue Covid-19 guidelines, including social distancing, masking, and holding events in outdoor spaces.

If you have any questions or concerns about attending, please message us and we’re happy to address them directly.

There Is No Right Or Wrong In Kanban

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Business team creating a marketing strategy at the office and writing ideas on a glass board - teamwork concepts

There Is No “Right Or Wrong” In Kanban

One of the benefits of Kanban is its application in organizations both large and small and in industries as varied as marketing, human resources, media and design, customer support, product development, and education, to name a few. When using Kanban, the scope of application (e.g. single team, multiple teams, departments, divisions, etc.) can influence the way the Method’s principles and practices are applied.

Join us at the Kanban Global Summit (August 22-24, 2022 in San Diego, California) for two talks that will show how the breadth and depth of Kanban practices applied varies greatly, from an open-source volunteer project to large enterprise complexity.

Register for Kanban Global Summit 2022

Bonnie Wolfe
Executive Director
Hack for LA

 

TALK

Maintaining Viability and Momentum in Open-Source Volunteer Projects

Management wants the improved results that Agile or Lean can bring, but how do you actually do it? Imagine that you couldn’t use money to motivate your team, that they could leave at any time and that you have to meet your stakeholder deadlines because they are counting on you. In this talk you will hear how an open source community used a combination of techniques to achieve transformative results that delighted product users, stakeholders and team members.

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Roger Hutcheson
Sr. Agile Coach
Duke Energy Corporation

TALK

The Lightning Bug Effect – Demystify Large Enterprise Complexity

Working as an IT professional for over 30 years, I have experienced and participated in a lot of changes, but the core function of IT is still the same. We provide technology to organizations in the form of hardware, software and services. Yes the products and the way of delivering those products have changed, but at its core there are systems that we deliver and support daily. My objective of this presentation is to open up the connected world of systems thinking and introduce feedback loops as the action needed to deliver with predictability.

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.

Digité’s Mahesh Singh Kicks Off Our First Kanban University Partner Webinar

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Digité’s Mahesh Singh Kicks Off Our First Kanban University Partner Webinar

Wednesday, March 30, 2022

11:00 AM PDT • 1:00 PM CDT • 2:00 PM EDT • 7:00 PM BST • 8:00 PM CEST

We are launching our new Kanban University Partner Webinar Series with our longest standing partner, Digité! This is an amazing opportunity to learn more about the benefits of using SwiftKanban’s Visual Work Management Tool.

In this webinar, Digité will present customer case studies and demonstrate some of the key capabilities of SwiftKanban – especially related to Portfolio and Upstream Kanban, and Flow Analytics – that have helped their customers improve business operations and time to market. The team will also answer any questions about Kanban, as well as SwiftKanban-related tool questions.

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Speaker: Mahesh Singh
Co-Founder, CMO/ Head of Consulting
Digité

Mahesh brings over 25 years of experience in Enterprise Software and IT Services/ Consulting industry experience to Digité. He has been responsible for Product Management, Marketing, Consulting and Professional Services for North America and Europe. He is a Kanban University Distinguished Fellow and an Accredited Kanban Consultant (AKC), Accredited Kanban Trainer (AKT), Kanban Coaching Professional (KCP), and Kanban Management Professional (KMP).

Host: Joey Spooner
Vice President for Community Development and Product Management
Kanban University

In a 20-year career spanning the communications, insurance, higher education, non-profit, and government sectors, Joey has been a software developer, IT director, strategic analyst, coach, technical systems expert, and consultant. He is also an Accredited Kanban Consultant (AKC), Accredited Kanban Trainer (AKT), Kanban Coaching Professional (KCP), and Kanban Management Professional (KMP).

Agility and… Profitability?

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Agility and… Profitability?
Show Us the Money at Kanban Global Summit 2022

Have you ever been asked for a business case for implementing Kanban in your organization? Do you know the return on investment you should expect in the short, medium and long term?

Join us at the Kanban Global Summit (August 22-24, 2022 in San Diego, California) and see how implementing Kanban across your organization’s services can very quickly achieve significant improvements to your business performance.

Register by April 10 to save on registration with the current pricing level.

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Social Engineering with Kanban

Chet Richards
Author and Colleague of the late USAF Col John Boyd

WORKSHOP

Lean, Agile, and… Profitable?

Your Kanban is lean and your software development is agile. Great! Now what? How do you use these internal capabilities to win in the external marketplace? For one answer, you might look to another highly competitive arena, the military. Building upon Chet Richards’ keynote address, this interactive workshop will look into one of the most successful transformations in modern history, the United States Marine Corps’ adoption of maneuver warfare.

Martin Aziz
Principal Consultant
SquirrelNorth

TALK

The Return on Investment of Kanban

Have you ever been asked for a business case for implementing Kanban in your organization? This talk looks at both sides of the equation: what business gains you should expect in the short, medium and long term, as well as the optimal implementation strategy for kanbanizing your organization. By attending, you’ll understand how Kanban can net your organization large and sustained returns while keeping investment levels much lower than a typical agile transformation.

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.

March News & Views from the Kanban Community

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March News & Views from the Kanban Community

In This Issue

Kanban Summer is Coming to Austria and California

New to Kanban? Get the Official Guide to the Kanban Method – Now in Danish, Bulgarian, Dutch and Armenian

How to Revitalize Your Kanban Implementation

A Tale of Pandemic and Me

Kanban Coaching Exchange: This is Jeopardy! with David Spinks and Glaudia Califano

Optimizing Legal Project Management: Can You Do the Kanban?

Neural Network Racing Cars Around a Track

Agile Software Development: Using Kanban Effectively and Avoiding Pitfalls (German)

Kanban Summer is Coming to Austria and California

March is here and we are one month closer to a summer of Kanban, from Kanban Leadership Retreat in Europe to the Kanban Global Summit and Kanban Leadership Retreat in the U.S. It’s been too long since we have seen your faces in person!

We’re thrilled to be back together with a renewed sense of community and to welcome new practitioners who have adopted Kanban during the past two years. Whether you hop in Rosie’s convertible under the San Diego sun or strap on your boots to hike in the mountains of Mayrhofen, you are sure to have an unforgettable experience at these upcoming events.

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New to Kanban? Get the Official Guide to the Kanban Method – Now in Danish, Bulgarian, Dutch and Armenian

The Official Guide to the Kanban Method from Kanban University is targeted at people new to Kanban and interested in learning about the basics of the Kanban Method. Get your free copy today for an easy entry into the vast Kanban body of knowledge. Follow the link below and select Additional Languages on the left tab to find these new translations and more!

Download Your Free Copy

How to Revitalize Your Kanban Implementation

Despite Kanban’s gradual – evolutionary – process of change – or perhaps because of it, as also because of its non-prescriptive nature, sometimes teams tend to feel a bit lost about what to do to “continue to implement” Kanban – to continue to implement a method which aims to improve their outcomes. Not knowing exactly what to do next can also cause stress. Mahesh Singh outlines a process that reinvigorates a Kanban implementation and provides a greater sense of purpose and achievement.

Read More from Mahesh Singh

A Tale of Pandemic and Me

Have you thought about sharing your love of Kanban by teaching the Kanban University curriculum to others? One of our Accredited Kanban Trainers started his journey as the pandemic hit and writes about his experiences.

Read More from Shahin Sheidaei

Kanban Coaching Exchange: This is Jeopardy! with David Spinks and Glaudia Califano

This is Jeopardy! Entering the Kanban Coaching Exchange are this month’s contestants… you! David and Glaudia are back at the Kanban Coaching Exchange to put your knowledge of Kanban and beyond to the test in an interactive gameshow! You will take part in teams, and there are prizes to be won! So come on down to the Kanban Coaching Exchange on Thursday, March 10!

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Neural Network Racing Cars Around a Track

Observe managed evolutionary change through feedback loops and learning in this demonstration of getting cars to drive around a path. In this case, the path represents the environment, and the cars adapt to the environment. See the similarities with Kanban, the Kanban Maturity Model and Fit for Purpose.

Read More from Rodrigo Yoshima

Agile Software Development: Using Kanban Effectively and Avoiding Pitfalls (German)

Recently David J Anderson gave an interview to a popular German online magazine, Heise Online, and covered these topics:

✔ What would David change in the blue book if he wrote it today?
✔ What are the most common misunderstandings about Kanban?
✔ How will Kanban develop in the future?

Read More from Heise Online

One Week Left to Save on KLR Europe | Limited Spots Available

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One Week Left to Save on Kanban Leadership Retreat Europe | Limited Spots Available

June 15-17, 2022  |  Mayrhofen, Austria

You have ONE WEEK left to save and reserve your spot at our summer Kanban excursion to the mountains of Austria! Early bird prices for Kanban Leadership Retreat Europe are good through Tuesday, March 1.

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What does Kanban Leadership Retreat Europe look like?

If you want to hear about new developments with Kanban, to affect how we use and teach Kanban, and to build lasting relationships with the best Kanban leaders in the world, this is the event for you.

Our goal for the week is to EXPLORE by going deeper into existing concepts and stretching the boundaries of ideas; CHALLENGE established ideas and present new material; and CONNECT by coming together to give advice or create something new.

Check out some tweets from #KLR19 in Mayrhofen and see for yourself what KLR is like.

“I was really surprised of all the knowledge and experience on one side and the respect for beginners on the other side… I got to know a lot of people who don’t hesitate to share their know-how and give support.”

Brigitte Pfeifer-Schmöller
AKT, KCP, KMP, TKP, CXP
Linz, Austria

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.