Get a copy of our new Kanban Maturity Model flyer and learn if KMM is the right course for you.

When you become a Kanban University Accredited Kanban Trainer, you’re certified to teach foundation level Kanban courses. But there’s more! Become part of the amazing family of Kanban trainers.

Catch up on the latest Kanban news, views, webinars, and events from this month.

Joey Spooner from Kanban University and Simon Girvan from Ivar Jacobson International will introduce the new Team Kanban Essence Cards. Register to join us on Wednesday, March 29!

Kanban University, in its constant pursuit of excellence for our students, is pleased to announce NEW advanced testing requirements for the Kanban Coaching Professional (KCP) Credential.

Prior to the 2023 Kanban Leadership Retreat Europe in Mayrhofen, Austria, Kanban University is excited to offer two extra days with exclusive sessions to expand your KLR experience.

Catch up on the latest Kanban news, views, webinars, and events from this month.

3rd Edition Fit for Purpose book by David J Anderson and Alexei Zheglov answers this question and more.

Join Ivar Jacobson International and Kanban University as we bring Essence to the Team level of Kanban in this online meetup on February 22, 2023.

The Wednesday night planning session is spent presenting and voting on the topics YOU want to explore deeper during the three-day retreat. What will you bring to KLR in 2023?

Will you add your students to the growing list of Kanban practitioners in 2023 by becoming an Accredited Kanban Trainer?

Catch up on the latest Kanban news, views, webinars, and events from this month.

Take stock of how you are doing on your Kanban journey and where you want to go in 2023. Tell us what’s on your mind!

Watch our video to experience how we Challenge, Connect, and Explore our mutual passion for Kanban!

Keep reading for our highlights from 2022.

Catch up on the latest Kanban news, views, webinars, and events from this month.

From A for Activity to W for Work Item Type, our new Kanban Method Glossary covers all the Kanban terms you need to know.

Kanban University AKTs are highly skilled Kanban practitioners who teach and certify training in the Kanban Method. Could YOU be one of our new AKTs in 2023?

Catch up on the latest Kanban news, views, webinars, and events from this month.

Here’s to the company of good friends, colleagues, and family around the world this holiday season!

Treat yourself this holiday season with a ticket to the 2023 Kanban Leadership Retreat Europe in Mayrhofen, Austria!

Check out the latest from some of our Kanban tool partners to see how they can help in your organization.

You are invited to spend an evening with David J Anderson and others in the Brazilian Kanban family!

Find videos of our keynotes, talks, and case studies, and download learning labs and workshop presentations from our August conference in San Diego.

Join KMM co-authors David J Anderson and Teodora Bozheva, and Accredited Kanban Consultant and Trainer from Brazil, Marco Mendes.

Catch up with the latest Kanban news, views, webinars, and events.

Don’t miss your next chance for the ultimate Kanban experience. Learn more about Kanban Leadership Retreat Europe 2023 now.

Learn all the facts, figures, findings, and key messages from the 2022 State of Kanban Report! Get your copy now.

Join this Kanban University Partner Webinar to explore how Kanban is being leveraged outside of just software development.

The weather was awesome and so were the conversations and laughter at the 2022 Kanban Global Summit and Kanban Leadership Retreat in San Diego!

2023 paves your way to the Accredited Kanban Trainer (AKT) credential with new Train the Trainer (TTT) classes in Portuguese and Spanish, and Oceania/Asia-friendly time zones!

No, it’s not the vegetable! In this Kanban University Partner Webinar, hear from Kanbanize CEO Dimitar Karaivanov about OKR strategy and action.

Catch up with the latest Kanban news, views, webinars, and events.

Get your chance to win a Kanban Conferences swag bag when you follow us on LinkedIn and share the Kanban University page with your colleagues and network.

Learn to design Kanban systems, gain the knowledge necessary for rollout and daily operation of a Kanban system, and learn how to manage, optimize, scale, and evolve it over time.

Meet our KGS 2022 sponsors Keeggo, Objective, and the David J Anderson School of Management.

Meet our KGS22 sponsors Kanbanize, SwiftKanban, and Flomatika.

We are proud to introduce more approved trainers who teach the two classes required for the KCP and in more languages!

Our Kanban Week activity guide has all the details to make your stay with us even better. Get your copy now!

Todd Little, Chairman of Kanban University, invites you to his 2022 Kanban Global Summit workshop.

Our 2023 Train the Trainer schedule is here, including an Oceania and Asia friendly class time! We also have a few spots available in our remaining 2022 classes.

In this workshop, you’ll become familiar with the learning loops of the Kanban Cadences and use them to manage projects, address risks, and foster innovation.

Catch up with the latest Kanban news, views, webinars, and events.

At Kanban Global Summit 2022, Scott Yankton and Chris Ring from IBM reveal key lessons on what works and what doesn’t in this environment, and the keys to their success to date.

In this Kanban University Partner Webinar, we’ll explore how to turn your daily meetings from status updates into outcome-driven actionable events that enable you to make progress and see the results of your efforts!

Watch for your video invitation from Michael Godeck to attend his talk on evolutionary thinking and change leadership.

Kanban Zone provides a platform for any organization to visualize, measure, and efficiently deliver goals with OKRs while using Kanban.

In his talk at the Kanban Global Summit, Fernando Cuenca will help you answer the scary question of “who’s responsible for delivery here?”

This new demo covers how SwiftKanban supports teams, portfolio, and higher-level planning across an organization.

41 Kanban enthusiasts from around the world were thrilled to gather in person again for Kanban Leadership Retreat. See what happened in our recap.

Join Jill Stott for “How to Mix in Kanban Concepts to Make Scrum Better” at the 2022 Kanban Global Summit.

This workshop with Craeg Strong is designed to help open our eyes to see how much more Kanban has to offer!

Your path to accreditation starts with our Kanban Train the Trainer (TTT) course.

Learn how Kanban can net your organization large and sustained returns while keeping investment levels much lower than a typical agile transformation.

Your Kanban is lean and your software is Agile. Great! Now what?

Catch up with the latest Kanban news, views, webinars, and events.

Watch our video to meet two speakers and learn more about the transformations they will share when we meet in San Diego in August.

We’ve broken it down into three categories to help direct you to best Kanban course for you to get started.

10 years ago, we held our first Mayrhofen Kanban Leadership Retreat. Today we’re less than a month away from #KLR22 in Mayrhofen.

Learn why you should attend Chet Richards’ Kanban Global Summit keynote in August to discover the lost arts of leadership.

Are you looking for a single source of knowledge about the Kanban Maturity Model (KMM)? We’ve got the perfect solution for you – the KMM Plus.

You have a couple of weeks left to share your thoughts about how you use Kanban.

Join a Kanban Leadership Retreat this summer in Europe or the US.

Join us at the Kanban Global Summit 2022 for two talks that will show how the breadth and depth of Kanban practices applied varies greatly.

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

See how implementing Kanban across your organization’s services can very quickly achieve significant improvements to your business performance.

We’ve curated the topics everyone is talking about! Catch up on the latest Kanban news, views, webinars, events and more.

Early bird prices for Kanban Leadership Retreat Europe are good through Tuesday, March 1.

Learn how to use the STATIK (Systems Thinking Approach To Introducing Kanban) approach for full Kanban system design at the Kanban Global Summit in August.

What’s new from our Kanban tools partners? Get discounts, news and videos to increase your Kanban knowledge.

We just couldn’t wait to get to Austria! KLR Europe has moved up one week to June 15-17, 2022.

Out of an abundance of caution over the Covid virus, we have rescheduled Kanban Week to August 22-26.

This month we found even more news and views from around the Kanban community to share with you.

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

Our first issue in 2022 brings you the latest news, views, webinars and events from around the Kanban community.

Our vision is to teach others our pragmatic way of managing work by building the best trainers.

Get accredited as an AKT with our Kanban Train the Trainer (TTT) courses open for application in 2022.

Watch our final three interviews with the 2021 Kanban Fellows.

Learn how to use the KMM at the Kanban Global Summit in San Diego, March 14-16, 2022.

Our Kanban tools partners have several offers to help you save while gearing up for a successful Kanban New Year.

Join with leaders and enthusiasts in the Kanban space to explore, challenge, and connect on our shared passion for Kanban.

In This Issue:
The latest news, views, webinars and events from around the Kanban community.

Our Kanban Fellows interviews continue! Watch them discuss their Kanban journeys with Todd Little.

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

Take the next step on your Kanban development path and get accredited as an Accredited Kanban Trainer (AKT).

In This Issue:
The latest news, views, webinars and events from around the Kanban community.

Our Kanban Fellows interviews continue! Watch them discuss their Kanban journeys with Todd Little.

10 years of creating unity, alignment, a sense of purpose, and good governance for businesses through evolutionary change techniques.

We can’t wait to finally bring you two incredible keynote speakers for Kanban Global Summit 2022.

In This Issue:
The latest news, views, webinars and events from around the Kanban community.

Two more Kanban University Distinguished Fellows share their Kanban journeys and thoughts about our community.

The AKC credential is worldwide recognition of achieving the most advanced qualification in coaching with Kanban.

Save on a week of presentations, networking, workshops, social receptions, recreation, and more.

Whether you need a beach read or a book to cozy up with on a chilly evening, August is the ideal time to catch up on your reading.

The latest news, views, webinars and events from around the Kanban community.

Watch two of our new Kanban Fellows talk about their Kanban journeys with Todd Little, Chairman of Kanban University.

Check out new ebooks, videos and other content from our Kanban partners and try out their top Kanban tools with free trials.

Get the new dates for the most anticipated Kanban event of the year! We can’t wait to get our Kanban community back together.

The latest news, views, webinars and events from around the Kanban community.

Today we are proud to introduce our next two Kanban Distinguished Fellows as they chat with Kanban University Chairman Todd Little.

For 10 years, Kanban Leadership Retreats have given our community a place to EXPLORE, CHALLENGE and CONNECT.

An AKT accreditation shows that you are among an exclusive group of professionals who have demonstrated a high level of mastery of The Kanban Method.

Watch to see members of our Kanban community let down their fears of being on camera and show us that truly #YesWeKanban Around the World!

Today we are proud to introduce our next two Kanban Distinguished Fellows as they chat with Kanban University Chairman Todd Little.

More than 1,000 Kanban practitioners and enthusiasts from around the world have spoken! We now have the results from the 2021 State of Kanban survey.

Make 2021 the year you share your love of teaching and passion for Kanban! Get accredited as a Kanban Trainer (AKT) with our Train the Trainer (TTT) […]

April News and Views From the Kanban Community – In This IssueDimitar Karaivanov of Kanbanize on Implementing a Kanban System Effectively […]

Kanban University would not be where it is today, celebrating TEN years, without the passion and dedication of key individuals in our community.

As the seasons are changing for many of us around the world, the promise of warmer weather brings excitement and life into everything we do.

Be a Part of Kanban University’s Next Decade of Growth This past year has tested us all. Kanban is providing the resilience needed in today’s world as proven in our […]

In This Issue: How Kanban Can Support Evolutionary Change | SquirrelNorth Walks Through The Official Guide to The Kanban Method

Get ready to join Rosie for a drive on the “Kan-Bahn” when you download The Official Guide to The Kanban Method, new from Kanban University.

2020 was a year that called for organizational resilience, survival and reinvention with decisive leadership. And Enterprise Agility Everywhere 2020 (EAE20) […]

In This Issue Change: Leadership Masterclass Review; Make Your Voice Heard: Take the State of Kanban Survey; How Great Agile Coaches Explain and […]

Your voice is critical to the Kanban community. Kanban University, Kanbanize and Digité invite you to participate in the inaugural State of Kanban […]

It’s always a good time to review the basics of Kanban.We have seen the benefits of bringing Kanban outcomes into the work lives of many, including: […]

Begin Your Kanban Trainer Journey Begin Your AKT Journey: Four TTT Virtual Classes Are Open Now, Including Spanish. Register now for our upcoming classes […]

Case studies, webinars, the newest Kanbanize case study, Sketchnote from Flow Conference, 2021 goals, KMM Pizza poster, The 3-Step Project Management Guide […]

Look inside for our Kanban highlights from 2020 2020 is (finally) coming to an end and the team at Kanban University is looking back at what an […]

It’s time to say goodbye to 2020 and hello to 2021, and we are proud of how the Kanban University community has pivoted to overcome the many […]

Train the Trainer courses are filling up fast. Apply today! Do you have a passion for kanban and want to teach others? Are you a KMP with practical Kanban experience?

Why We Need the Kanban Maturity Model, Organizational Maturity Explained, and much more! December News & Views From the Kanban Community.

Looking to uplevel your Kanban game in 2021? Get your team on track with these Kanban tools. Six Kanban Tools To Keep You on Track For 2021 […]

Formerly Lean Kanban India, this conference has been a vital platform to further the foundation of the Kanban Method and bringing the teachings […]

Confused about the difference between class of service and work item type? This topic was a direct outcome of the recent Train the Trainer class […]

November is here and we have a few spots still available in virtual classes leading to the two highest Kanban University credentials: AKC and AKT […]

Team Kanban Practitioner: A Great Entry Point to Kanban Are you new to Kanban? Perhaps you are familiar with Scrum as a team leader, a project manager […]

Once you have achieved the Kanban Management Professional (KMP) credential, your journey on the Kanban University Development Path […]

Resilience and Agility Through Evolutionary Change and the Kanban Maturity Model Agility is the ability to adapt to changing situations. Resilience is the ability […]

Do you have a passion for Kanban? Does your Kanban journey lead down the Training path? Completion of the TTT is a required step in the process of […]

Following the announcements of our new brand, Kanban University and the renaming of our parent company to Mauvius Group Inc, today we […]

Today, we are announcing our new intermediate level professional management credential, the Kanban Coaching Professional (KCP). At Kanban University […]

We are making changes at Kanban University in order to make our training path and our credentials more easily understood both by those who might […]

How efficient is your flow? One of the questions that working professionals get asked the most is “When will my request be completed?” In order […]

By: Shuchi Singla One of the biggest challenges leadership faces is that of predicting future expected results or even simply understanding the current […]

Lean Kanban, Inc, operator of Lean Kanban University (LKU) certified Kanban training programs and the global Lean Kanban conference series […]

I was requested by a client to provide a mapping of my organizational maturity model and patterns of Kanban maturity, to Jim Shore & Diana […]

Kanban’s agendas provide the compelling reasons to care. They provide a focus on why we are choosing to adopt it. Seth Godin once suggested […]

In this first post in the series, I look at the psychology and impact of traditional large scale managed change initiatives and how evolutionary […]

This is part 2 of current series on organizational maturity, evolutionary change, and Kanban. Catch up on Part 1: Organizational maturity […]

In part 3 I take all the kanban board and system designs from part 2 and map them to the organizational maturity assessment framework as a core […]

This is part 4 of my series looking at Kanban, organizational maturity and evolutionary change. This post looks at how you move up the maturity […]

This is the second post outlining the 6 principles of The Kanban Method. This one explores the 3 Service Delivery Principles. While service delivery has been core […]

Most change management is based on a model introduced by the McKinsey consulting firm. This model became prevalent in the 20th Century […]

The latest fad in the Agile software development community is to promote the use of Cost of Delay for prioritization. Many readers will know that […]

This is the 2nd part of my post following Defining KPIs in Enterprise Services Planning. Running our classroom exercises with private clients this past 18 months […]

The following article was first published June 7th, 2000. It describes a project to create a design for a set of wireless data applications for Nokia […]

All KPIs should be fitness criteria metrics. All KPIs should be recognizable by your customers and addressing aspects of how they evaluate the fitness […]

How do we know whether a change in our service delivery capability represents an improvement? This is the fair and reasonable question that should […]

Regular followers of my work will know that I have expressed dissatisfaction with Net Promoter Score (NPS). Steve Denning in his book […]

“scrumsplaining” is the phenomena where a Scrum practitioner tries to explain why you can’t use some alternative approach without actually making any […]

“scrumsplaining” is the phenomena where a Scrum practitioner tries to explain why you can’t use some alternative approach without actually making any […]

With the acknowledgement that two clear roles are emerging in Kanban implementations, the Service Delivery Manager, and the Service Request […]

There is a class of replenishment meeting which I believe we need to call out and name separately. In these replenishment meetings the backlog is already […]

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.

With the emergence of the SDM & SRM roles with Kanban, we need to ask the questions, when do we need these roles? When do we need both?

In 2008 I was scheduled to give a talk to the Bay Area APLN meetup group. The meeting was being held at the offices of The Gap in downtown […]

In November 2013 the Kanban coaching community agreed that we recognized 3 specific agendas that come with Kanban implementations: sustainability […]

For a decade now, Kanban has offered an alternative path to agility. At the time of writing my first book, Agile Management for Software […]

The Kanban Method was conceived as an alternative path to agility – as a means to improve responsiveness and adaptability without any […]

Lean Kanban University is introducing a new entry level Kanban class for Team Kanban together with a certification and professional credential, TKP […]

Recently, I’ve taken a new approach to teaching The Kanban Method. The new Lean Kanban “Practicing the Kanban Method” class is built around the 7 […]

I’ve been giving some careful thought to why it became necessary to create the concept of Enterprise Services Planning. At the most fundamental level, ESP was necessary […]

This year we’re taking our LeanKanban North America conference back to Miami for the first time in 6 years. It’s very much a “back to our roots” event […]

Lean Kanban North America takes place in Miami, Florida 8-10 June 2015 at the Eden Roc Hotel on Miami Beach. This year we are both going "back to our roots" while "looking to the future" with a very specific Kanban practitioner event. If you are already doing Kanban and want to know how to take [...]

Kanban from the inside! What does that mean? Perhaps it's about practicing Kanban and it is written by a practitioner? And that would be true! Perhaps it's about understanding Kanban and its community of followers from a community insider? And that would be true too! Or perhaps it is about something deeper, something truly "from [...]

We've updated the LeanKanban Training Roadmap for 2015 following the introduction of the modular 5-day Enterprise Services Planning class. 2015 Edition LeanKanban Training Roadmap The new training roadmap includes the new Enterprise Services Planning classes but also introduces a new intermediate training class called "The Kanban Method." People completing the Foundation Level "Getting Started with [...]

Enterprise Services Planning is a new modular 5-day training curriculum for managing modern businesses involving lots of knowledge work and creative services. If your organization contains people who must think and make decisions for their living then Enterprise Services Planning is the management training framework that will transform your business. While ideally taken together as [...]

Enterprise Services Planning is a new modular 5-day training curriculum for managing modern businesses involving lots of knowledge work and creative services. If your organization contains people who must think and make decisions for their living then Enterprise Services Planning is the management training framework that will transform your business. While ideally taken together as […]

Enterprise Services Planning is a new modular 5-day training curriculum for managing modern businesses involving lots of knowledge work and creative services. If your organization contains people who must think and make decisions for their living then Enterprise Services Planning is the management training framework that will transform your business. While ideally taken together as [...]

Enterprise Services Planning is a new modular 5-day training curriculum for managing modern businesses involving lots of knowledge work and creative services. If your organization contains people who must think and make decisions for their living then Enterprise Services Planning is the management training framework that will transform your business. While ideally taken together as [...]

This year, we're officially introducing Enterprise Services Planning (ESP) as a concept and specifically as a management training curriculum. Later this year, I anticipate the launch of Enterprise Services Planning software tools to support the mechanisms and methods taught in our classes. What is Enterprise Services Planning (ESP)? Kanban is now table stakes for many [...]

In the Kanban Coaching Professional Masterclass, I teach coaches and those leading Kanban initiatives how to assess the appropriateness of the Kanban Method and the appropriateness of applying a kanban system within an organization. This is the first of a series of blog posts on appropriateness and getting started with an enterprise scale Kanban initiative. […]

For a corporation setting out on a large scale Kanban implementation, there is the inevitable question of, where to start? Typically, clients want to run a pilot on a single service delivery workflow but which one to choose? Firstly, we must find a service delivery workflow that is appropriate for a kanban system. [See the [...]

The Kanban Method defines my approach to incremental, evolutionary change for technology development/operations organizations. It uses a work-in-progress limited pull system as the core mechanism to expose system operation (or process) problems and stimulate collaboration to improve the system. In my book, Kanban – Successful Evolutionary Change for your Technology Business, I identified what I called the “5 core properties” that I’d observed to be present in each successful implementation of Kanban. Since the “Blue” book was published we’ve expanded this list and they are now known as the Principles and General Practices of Kanban.