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Fixing Broken Agile Transformations with Kanban

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Clean Up On Aisle 4! The image depicts a person with cleaning tools to represent fixing a broken agile transformation with Kanban.

“Clean Up On Aisle 4!” Fixing Broken Agile Transformations with Kanban

With a little over a month until we convene in San Diego, our Kanban Global Summit 2022 program is final! Start making your plans now for the sessions you’d like to attend. Will you choose our newest addition to the program? Scott Yankton and Chris Ring of IBM present “Clean Up On Aisle 4!” Fixing Broken Agile Transformations with Kanban.

Scott and Chris say they are not really Agile or Kanban evangelists per se or learned academics in these styles of working. What they are is much closer to “organizational consultants” who want to use the best techniques available for building “fit for purpose” organizations that can win in the marketplace.

In their experience, the best technique for a business side transformation or saving an agile transformation gone awry, is Kanban.

Hear from them and many more speakers at the Kanban Global Summit, August 22-24, 2022 in San Diego, California. Special discounts are available. Email us to find out what might work for you!

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“Clean Up On Aisle 4!”
Fixing Broken Agile Transformations with Kanban

In our experience, especially over the past few years, we have seen less straight agile transformations of development teams and more of two specific trends:

  • A shift in interest and focus to apply agile to much more complex/difficult business organizations
  • Course corrections or turnarounds of poorly executed agile transformations

This session is not a deep exploration of Kanban theory, but rather is focused on the practical guidance for large scale, highly matrix’d, complex organizational transformations. This includes adopting an ecosystem approach to Kanban, and some key framework components that consistently generate progress.

In this discussion, Scott Yankton (former federal bank regulator/Chief Operating Officer/Consultant, and current IBM Program Director), and Chris Ring (IBM Senior Manager with 35 years experience navigating a highly matrix’d, highly complex Fortune 50 company) reveal key lessons on what works and what doesn’t in this environment, and the keys to their success to date.

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Scott Yankton
Global Program Director
IBM

 

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Chris Ring
Enterprise Agile Consultant
IBM

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.

Webinar: How to Turn Your Daily Meetings into Outcome-Driven Events

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How to Turn Your Daily Meetings into Outcome-Driven Events

Wednesday, July 27, 2022

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

Register for the Nave Webinar

Back in the day, it was a tradition to spend the daily morning call asking all the people in the team what they did yesterday, and what they’re doing today.

And now, a new trend is evolving, which pretty much reverts us right back to our old bad behavior. Your daily meeting is not and should not be a status update meeting. If the purpose of your calls is to get a status report, you run the risk of drastically impacting your improvement initiative!

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

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Speaker: Sonya Siderova
Founder & CEO
Nave

Sonya Siderova is a passionate product manager and a driving force behind Nave, a Kanban analytics suite that helps teams improve their delivery speed through data-driven decision making. When she’s not catering to her two little ones, you might find Sonya absorbed in a good heavyweight boxing match or behind a screen crafting a new blog post.

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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).

Why Attend Kanban Global Summit? Your Survival May Depend Upon It

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Why Attend Kanban Global Summit?

Your Survival May Depend Upon It

Register Now to Save. Prices Go Up After July 15!

Hear from the best minds practicing Kanban today at the Kanban Global Summit, August 22-24 in San Diego.

Watch above for your invitation from Michael Godeck to attend his talk on evolutionary thinking and change leadership. Come and learn how to make the Kanban Maturity Model work for you.

Then stay for the Kanban Leadership Retreat, August 24-26, to talk through some important questions such as “What is this services thing anyway?”

You have one more week before prices for KGS and KLR go up Friday, July 15, 2022. Bring 3 or more colleagues for a group discount!

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Welcome Our New Partner: Kanban Zone

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Welcome Our New Partner: Kanban Zone

Kanban University is excited to announce our partnership with Kanban Zone, an enterprise-level Kanban Software as a Service (SaaS) that integrates with the Kanban Method into the most intuitive and flexible no-code interface. Kanban Zone provides a platform for any organization to visualize, measure, and efficiently deliver goals with OKRs while using Kanban.

Kanban Zone guarantees that their flexible board designer can create any Kanban board you can imagine. Want to challenge Kanban Zone? Share a board picture or document and their support team will quickly build what you need and show you how easily it can be done, including setting up a Portfolio Kanban system of connected boards.

Ready to get started? Visit kanbanzone.com to start your special offer for Kanban University members.

  • Extended 60-Day Free Trial, that’s 30 more days!
  • Complimentary Kanban coaching session
  • All premium add-ons included

Also, stay tuned this Fall for an upcoming tour of what Kanban Zone can do for you and your organization.

Get Into The Kanban Zone With Our Special Offer
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Finding Your Servi​ce Delivery Manager

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Finding Your Servi​ce Delivery Manager

Register for KGS22 before the July 15 price change.

The role of the Service Delivery Manager (SDM) is critical to enable higher levels of delivery maturity, and its absence is acknowledged as one of the most common barriers to transitioning to Kanban Maturity Model Level 2. When confronted with identifying this role, most organizations find the conversation really challenging.

In his talk at the Kanban Global Summit, Fernando Cuenca (Principal Consultant at SquirrelNorth) will describe the meaning of the SDM role as defined in Kanban and share stories of real world companies. You’ll return to work able to answer the scary question of “who’s responsible for delivery here?”

Prices go up on Friday, July 15, 2022!
Register now to save when you join us in San Diego, August 22-24.
Group discounts are also available.
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Dive Into a New Multi-Level SwiftKanban Demo With Mahesh Singh

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Dive Into a New Multi-Level Demo of SwiftKanban With Mahesh Singh

Mahesh Singh (Digité Co-Founder and Senior VP of Marketing) helped us launch our first Kanban University Partner Webinar in March. After the webinar, he stuck around to give us brand new footage on the benefits of using SwiftKanban‘s Visual Work Management Tool.

Dive into SwiftKanban with this new multi-level demo that covers how SwiftKanban supports teams, portfolio, and higher-level planning across an organization.

Using a real-life Kanban system to build SwiftKanban, Mahesh takes you through how they “eat their own dog food” to build a world-class software solution that’s utilized by organizations all over the world.

Watch now and make sure to join us for the next Kanban University Partner Webinar coming in July! Look for your email invitation coming soon.

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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).