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In This Issue

KMM Plus Talks: The Importance of Leadership Development

We’re Doing Kanban, Are You? Kanban Lab Podcast

Play Objective’s Maturity Card Game – Kanban University Partner Webinar Series

Save the Dates! Kanban Brazil 2023

Four Common Pitfalls to Watch Out for When Implementing Kanban Metrics

Call for Proposals: Kanban India 2023

Kanban, Collaboration, and Culture: Lean On Agile Podcast

KMM Plus Talks: The Importance of Leadership Development

Why is it important to develop leaders within the organization? KMM Plus Talks with Bianca Griffioen to explore the topic of leadership as an essential aspect of agile companies and an undoubtedly important part of the KMM and Kanban Method studies. Bianca is a Kanban Trainer, Coach, and Consultant with Kanban University.

We’re Doing Kanban, Are You? Kanban Lab Podcast

It’s quite common for teams to mistakenly assume that they are practicing Kanban simply because they have a visual representation of their work on a big wall.

In this episode of the Kanban Lab podcast, Accredited Kanban Trainers Soma Mazumder and Orod Semsarzadeh delved into the true essence of Kanban. They revisited the definition and meaning of Kanban, and explored the significance of two key Kanban practices: limiting work in progress and visualising the workflow.

Play Objective’s Maturity Card Game – Kanban University Partner Webinar Series

How about making the assessment process quick and fun? Learn about a highly engaging game to evaluate and improve your organizational maturity. Get ready to level up your organization’s productivity and performance with the Maturity Card Game! Based on the KMM (Kanban Maturity Model), this game is designed to help companies and individuals identify their current level of maturity and take strategic actions to improve it. This webinar recording is the perfect opportunity to learn how to improve your organization’s productivity and have some fun in the process.

Save the Dates! Kanban Brazil 2023

September 13-14, 2023

Lecture Submission: June 25, 2023
​Registration Starts July 1, 2023

The Kanban, KMM, and Fit for Purpose community will be in São Paulo on September 13 and 14 with keynotes from David Anderson, Andrea Pinto, Alisson Vale, and Raphael Donaire Albino. Want to talk at Kanban Brazil? The Call for Papers is open and runs only until June 25. With the theme Customer Oriented – Organizations Obtaining Results beyond Agility, speaking at Kanban Brazil is a unique opportunity to share what you do and what you know using Kanban, KMM, Fit for Purpose, and other modern management practices. Registration starts on July 1 with a Super Early Bird offer of 20% off that is only available to Kanban Brazil mailing list subscribers.

Four Common Pitfalls to Watch Out for When Implementing Kanban Metrics

If you’re looking to implement Kanban metrics, it’s crucial to proceed with caution and stay mindful of potential traps. It’s not uncommon to encounter challenges that prevent your initiative from reaching its full potential.

Sonya Siderova from Nave uncovers four common pitfalls that might be holding you back from getting the most out of your Kanban metrics.

Call for Proposals: Kanban India 2023

Have you submitted your session for Kanban India 2023? The conference is looking for case studies, workshops, or session talks from speakers at this leading Kanban Conference series. But hurry! The last day for submissions is June 30, 2023.

Kanban, Collaboration, and Culture: Lean On Agile Podcast

“How do you operate in an environment when you’re in a challenging situation? Finding the strength to provide stability and calm.”

Horia Balog (Kanban University Accredited Kanban Trainer, Consultant, Management, and Coaching Professional) joined the Lean On Agile (& Elevate Change) show to talk about Kanban, Collaboration, and Culture as part of the Kanban Clinic series.

Kanban Australia 2023 is brought to you to help promote deeper knowledge and usage of Kanban throughout Australia and it’s neighbours. Understanding how to handle 21st century knowledge management is not something suitable to traditional management means. Kanban brings you new thinking, tools and support to deepen your capability to deliver to changing customer and market needs.

Come to Kanban Australia and you’ll Connect, Share, and Learn from worldwide and local experts and practitioners who use Kanban in their business.

In This Issue

Kanban University Partner Webinar Series – Come Play Objective’s Maturity Card Game

Call for Case Studies

Train the Trainer Workshop at Kanban India

Online Event: Going From “Teams Everywhere” to “Services Everywhere”

Webinar Recording: Discover Upstream Kanban

Cycle Time Breakdown Chart by Nave

Speaker Submissions Are Now OPEN for Kanban Australia 2023

Kanban University Partner Webinar Series – Come Play Objective’s Maturity Card Game

Wednesday, May 31, 2023

8:00 – 9:00 PM CEST
7:00 – 8:00 PM BST
2:00 – 3:00 PM EDT
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM PDT

Get ready to level up your organization’s productivity and performance with the Maturity Card Game! Based on the KMM (Kanban Maturity Model), this game is designed to help companies and individuals identify their current level of maturity and take strategic actions to improve it. But don’t let the serious nature of the topic fool you – this game is also a ton of fun! With competition, points, and a winner, you and your team will engage in deep discussions about the root causes of problems and the organizational culture.

Call for Case Studies

Do you have a case study to share, but have struggled to find the time to publish it? The KMM Plus team wants to help you!

The KMM Plus Team will be happy to record you telling the story of your case study. This can be done virtually or in-person. If you are attending the Kanban Leadership Retreat in Austria this June, the KMM Plus team will be on-site to record your case in-person. It’s just like an interview or a webinar, but even more speaker-friendly – with a chance to stop, reformulate, and re-record. 😊

Share your case study, your experience, and give your advice about using the KMM so other practitioners can learn from you. Contact the KMM Plus Team to arrange your recording.

Train the Trainer Workshop at Kanban India

November 26 – 30, 2023

9:00 AM to 6:00 PM IST each day

Kanban India is back with another Accredited Kanban Trainer workshop during this year’s conference. This is the official Kanban Train the Trainer (TTT) workshop led by Todd Little, Chairman of Kanban University. This interactive and collaborative course program focuses on training experienced Kanban professionals who want to offer kanban University certified training in the Kanban Method.

Online Event: Going From “Teams Everywhere” to “Services Everywhere”

Thursday, May 18, 2023

9:00 – 10:30 PM EDT
6:00 – 7:30 PM PDT

You can apply Kanban both to teams and services, but the resulting Kanban system normally accomplishes a very different “agenda.” Learning to differentiate between the two (including when “team == service”) and to pragmatically define a service boundary is a critical skill for a practitioner of the Kanban Method.

Join Fernando Cuenca (Kanban University AKC, AKT, KCP, and KMP) and the Lean Practitioners Association of Saskatchewan as he covers Kanban Agendas, in particular Service Orientation Seeing services, and identifying boundaries and interconnections.

Webinar Recording: Discover Upstream Kanban

Radek Orszewski (Kanban University AKC, AKT, KCP, and KMP) recently joined the David J Anderson School of Management to present this webinar on how to use upstream Kanban to solve the problem of managing lengthy backlogs. Learn more about the concept of upstream Kanban, and also practical implementation, useful techniques, and metrics.

Cycle Time Breakdown Chart by Nave

The approach of analyzing your data using the Cycle Time Breakdown is extremely powerful if you maintain a Kanban pull system. Kanban pull systems enable teams to assess how much time the workflow sits in each queue state.

Read more from Nave to learn how to analyze your cycle time breakdown, identify bottlenecks that hinder your performance, and highlight the disruptive nature of your waiting times.

Speaker Submissions Are Now OPEN for Kanban Australia 2023

October 9, 2023

Jasper Hotel, Melbourne

Would you like to share your experience with Kanban? Have you learned something that you’d like to share with the Kanban community? Please submit a proposal for a talk at Kanban Australia 2023.

The organizers are looking for topics such as Kanban Fundamentals, Scaling Kanban, Kanban Outside of IT, Improving Kanban Systems, Metrics, and more. Go beyond the mere theoretical and present a real life experience to help promote deeper knowledge and usage of Kanban throughout Australia and it’s neighbours.