Save With Year-End Specials From Our Kanban Tools Partners

The holidays are here, bringing Black Friday sales and seasonal specials to all, even in Kanban land.

Our Kanban tools partners have several offers available to help you save while gearing up for a successful Kanban New Year in 2022.

Get started below!

KMM+ – Get 20% Off Subscriptions

The Kanban Maturity Model provides pragmatic, actionable, evidence-based guidance and shows how to achieve true enterprise agility. KMM Plus gives immediate access to updated information and knowledge.

Enjoy a 20% discount on KMM+ subscriptions until the end of November 2021. The offer applies to all types of annual subscriptions.

SwiftKanban – Get 20% Off Annual Plans

SwiftKanban is pleased to offer the Kanban University community a special discount. Sign up for a free trial with the promo code SWIFT-KU21 and you’ll be entitled to a flat 20% discount when you sign up for any paid annual plan of SwiftKanban. This offer is valid until December 25, 2021. Compare plans here.

Businessmap – See the Three Pillars in Action

Businessmap aims to enable true agility in companies by helping them:

• Optimize workflows and deliver faster,
• Gain visibility across their projects, and
• Connect planning with execution.

These three pillars characterize the Businessmap software and what it stands for. The company’s mission is to discover new management ways and share this knowledge through amazingly powerful tools. That’s why, as part of this mission, they’ve decided to package the evolution of the product over the years and present it to you by visually portraying the Businessmap pillars.

Kaiten – Get Up to 60% Off With Black Friday Offer

Kaiten combines the ease of use (like Trello) with Kanban functionality. Bring everyone in a single space and stop switching between different tools. Reports, visual signals, multiple boards in the space, portfolio Kanban, upstream/downstream—anything you love about Kanban you’ll find in Kaiten.

Be one of the passengers of the discount spacecraft on Planet Kaiten and save up to 60%. This offer is good until December 12, 2021.

Nave – Get 30% Off With Black Friday Discount

With Kanban Analytics from Nave, you’ll be able to:

• Make data-driven decisions based on actionable insights
• Identify bottlenecks that are hindering your performance
• Build predictable delivery workflows

With the Black Friday discount, save 30% on all Kanban Analytics Annual Plans. Upgrade your membership with 30% off on all annual plans. The offer is limited until November 30. Subscribe now with coupon code KU21.

Kanban Leadership Retreat Europe is back in Mayrhofen

June 15-17, 2022
Mayrhofen, Austria

Register soon and enjoy early bird pricing through December 31.

Join with leaders and enthusiasts in the Kanban space to explore, challenge, and connect on our shared passion for Kanban. So many ideas and materials that make The Kanban Method what it is today have come out of Kanban Leadership Retreats. Kanban University was literally founded at KLR in 2011!

Kanban Leadership Retreat is the conference that is built by the participants. There is no set agenda ahead of time. The sessions and discussions are planned and driven by you for you. Bring your ideas and challenges and be prepared to get deep into Kanban!

EXPLORE

Go deeper into existing concepts. Stretch the boundaries on Cost of Delay, Metrics, Flow, Games, Maturity Levels, and more.

CHALLENGE

Question and confront established ideas. Present new material and advance the field of Kanban.

CONNECT

Put your heads together and create something new. Or, come together to offer advice regarding a challenge.

The venue for the Kanban Leadership Retreat is the beautiful Europahaus in Mayrhofen, Austria.

Your hotel room will be booked at Alpendomizil Hotel Neuhaus, only 180 meters from the conference venue. Situated in the heart of Mayrhofen, Alpendomizil Neuhaus enjoys a quiet location in the beautiful Zillertal Valley.

Discover the Zillertal Valley on Thursday and Friday during the mid-day extended break. Maybe you are up for hiking, biking or climbing? Take the cable cars up to the mountains to have lunch. Or simply relax at the hotel.

Kanban Leadership Retreat will follow all Europahaus Mayrhofen Covid-19 measures to ensure a safe event for attendees.

November News & Views from the Kanban Community

In This Issue

Kanban Community Days: From the Community for the Community (German)

Getting Started with Kanban, Part 1: Interview with Anna Radzikowska

Limiting WIP with Daniel Ploeg

How to Manage Defects Effectively (Without Moving Cards Backward on Your Board)

Why Kanban Is More Than a Visualization Board

Resilience and Agility through Evolutionary Change and Kanban Maturity Model

The Evolution of Agile: Kanban and Beyond

Kanban Clinic with Dave White

Accountability – The Magic Ingredient for Business Agility and Resilience

Top Reasons Why Companies Use Kanban [Infographic]

Kanban Community Days: From the Community for the Community (German)

Online | November 15-16 | 13:30-21:30 CET

Kanban University is excited to sponsor Kanban Community Days 2021. The Kanban user groups and communities for Limited WiP Society from all over German-speaking countries have organized this virtual conference to focus on the benefits and effects of flow-based work called Kanban. Follow the event on Twitter @kanbandays.

Getting Started with Kanban, Part 1: Interview with Anna Radzikowska, Accredited Kanban Trainer and Coach

Do you have agility initiatives in your organization? You may or may not be satisfied with the current results, but nevertheless you want to learn more about the Kanban Method. Mauvisoft talked to Anna Radzikowska, Accredited Kanban Trainer and Certified Kanban Coach, who specializes in teaching Kanban world newcomers. Read part one of a series of interviews and find out how you should start your Kanban journey, what problems you may face and how to overcome them.

Limiting WIP with Daniel Ploeg

Accredited Kanban Trainer Daniel Ploeg combines his love of Kanban with his love of home brewing to explain the practice of limiting work in progress (WIP). With knowledge work being intangible, it can be hard to see what your capacity actually is. In this video, Daniel helps you understand your WIP limit and what happens when you go over it.

How to Manage Defects Effectively (Without Moving Cards Backward on Your Board)

A common scenario that often triggers teams to move cards backward on your Kanban board is handling defects during the ‘Testing’ phase. Way too often, when teams discover an issue with the implementation, they move the card back into the ‘Development’ state. This approach is ineffective not only because it contradicts the nature of knowledge work, but also because it has the potential to prevent you from discovering opportunities for improvement. There is a better way to handle this scenario.

Why Kanban Is More Than a Visualization Board

There’s a sentence that I hear over and over again that kind of irks me, and maybe you’ve heard it too? “We’re doing Kanban, we have a Kanban board.” While having a Kanban board is important, you are not really practicing Kanban with this alone. Kanban is really tricky for most people to get their heads around because it’s so much more about culture than process. To understand the cultural aspect of Kanban, we have to remove ourselves from thinking about a project and think of it instead as a practice.

Resilience and Agility through Evolutionary Change and Kanban Maturity Model

Check out this video of Todd Little and Joey Spooner’s Experience Report from Agile India Lite 2021. Agility is the ability to adapt to changing situations. Resilience is the ability to withstand adversity. As organizations have discovered, agility alone is not sufficient; resilience is needed as well. Both are fundamental to the Kanban Method. Join Todd and Joey as they share how the Kanban Method can start your evolutionary change towards both agility and resilience.

The Evolution of Agile: Kanban and Beyond

Kanban was the start of the evolution of Agile. Michael K Sahota tips his hat to David Anderson for creating the movement and for the t-shirt. For Michael, it was a key step to his understanding of the Evolution of Agile itself: How to integrate and understand Agile in relation to culture, leadership and how we think about organizational change management.

Elevate Change Podcast: Kanban Clinic with Dave White

“One reason that the Kanban Method was created, was to make life better for people.”
~Dave White

In this episode of the Lean On Agile (& Elevate Change) podcast, Dave White joins Shahin Sheidaei to talk about Kanban and indulge in an in-depth conversation on Kanban going mainstream, consulting, Kanban vs others, training, and much more.

Accountability – The Magic Ingredient for Business Agility and Resilience

In a low maturity market, a lack of leadership is often cited as the reason behind poor customer service, unpredictable, untrustworthy service delivery, and a lack of speed, agility, and effectiveness. However, what we see is a lack of accountability. Accountability catalyzes the required and latent leadership to enable high maturity performance and a platform where Kanban can deliver 8x improvements in productivity and more than a 90% reduction in lead times.

Top Reasons Why Companies Use Kanban [Infographic]

The team at Businessmap has always been searching to answer the question “Why do more and more companies use Kanban?” Not just because they want to satisfy their curiosity, but because they want to find a rational explanation. So, they decided to dig deeper and try to discover the main reasons behind the Method’s popularity.

Get to Know Sudipta Lahiri and Henning Wolf

Just a few more Kanban University Distinguished Fellows interviews to share for this year’s inaugural class! This month, Todd Little talks with Sudipta and Henning about the Kanban University community and their experiences in Kanban during the past 10 years.

​Watch their videos below.

How has Kanban and the Kanban community evolved over the past ten years?

“While we might be a much smaller community when compared to Scrum or SAFe, I think that if I look at the amount of new intellectual property that is created in a single community, the Kanban community would beat all others hands down. I don’t think there is any other community which is making such a significant, completely new thought process in terms of how organizations can improve their business agility.”

Sudipta Lahiri
Head of Products at Digité

What do you value most about the Kanban University community?

​”It’s a cool community because people are willing to share their experience and there are many people that really are interested in diving deep into a lot of problems, so I don’t have to! That’s great, not only for me personally, but for a lot of people who don’t have the time to do all this digging themselves.”

Henning Wolf
Leader at it-agile GmbH and Selbstfuehren.de

Clear Guidance, Immediate Improvement:

Kanban Global Summit Workshops and Labs

Early Bird pricing ends October 31st

When you attend the Kanban Global Summit, you will hear talks from world leaders sharing their experiences with the Kanban Method, PLUS you’ll participate in hands-on activities during interactive workshops and Learning Labs.

Learn from real-world examples, get answers to your specific questions, and address your challenges while connecting with Kanban experts and enthusiasts. Return to your organization with practical skills you can put to work immediately, where you are now!

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

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.

Why Should You Take the Train the Trainer Class?

Watch the video below to hear instructor Helen Meek explain

Kanban University Accredited Kanban Trainers (AKTs) have reached a significant milestone in their Kanban journey. Once approved, AKTs are able to teach the foundation classes: Team Kanban Practitioner, Kanban System Design, and Kanban Systems Improvement.

With an AKT accreditation, it shows the world and your students that you are among an exclusive group of professionals who have demonstrated a high level of mastery of The Kanban Method.

This includes:

• Attaining the Kanban Management Professional Credential
• Having enough practical Kanban implementation experience to write a quality case study

And that’s all before you even take the Train the Trainer (TTT) class!

Take the next step on your Kanban development path and get accredited as an AKT with our TTT courses open for registration below.

Upcoming Train the Trainer Classes 

December 5 – 10, 2021

Trainers: Todd Little & Amit Kaulagekar
Language: English
1:00 pm to 10:00 pm India Standard Time
2:30 am to 11:30 am Eastern Standard Time US
8:30 am to 5:30 pm Central European Time

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

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

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

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