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Upcoming Webinars and One You May Have Missed

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Save These Dates for Upcoming Kanban University Partner Webinars

As the weather heats up for summer, so does our partner webinar series. We couldn’t wait to announce that we’re welcoming our friends from Objective on May 31 and Release Management on July 26.

Details and registration for both webinars will open soon. Watch for our newsletter announcements and follow us on LinkedIn for updates.

Webinar Recording: Introducing the New Team Kanban Essence Cards

In case you missed it, we invited Simon Girvan from Ivar Jacobson International to introduce the new Team Kanban Essence Cards in our March Kanban University Partner Webinar. The recording is now live!

Watch below as Simon and Joey Spooner, Vice President for Community Development and Product Management at Kanban University, lead an interactive discussion on using Essence to introduce, explain, adopt, and optimize a team’s use of Kanban. It’s a great talk, especially if you are new to Essence.

Kanban University Partner Webinar

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Webinar: Introducing Team Kanban Essence Cards

Introducing the New Team Kanban Essence Cards

Wednesday, March 29, 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
Register For The Webinar

Join our next Kanban University Partner Webinar where Joey Spooner from Kanban University and Simon Girvan from Ivar Jacobson International will introduce the new Team Kanban Essence Cards.

Using the international standard, Essence, to describe Team Kanban, Simon and Joey have created a set of cards that help introduce and explain, as well as support, a team’s adoption and experimentation with common Kanban practices.

The webinar will introduce the cards and explain how we created them but more importantly, we will show you ways that you can use them to help with teaching or coaching engagements. You will be able to download the cards to use yourself and sign up for early, beta access to a new tool that provides a digital platform to explore and experiment with a team’s way of working.​

Visit the webinar page to reserve your spot now and learn more about Essence – What is it? Why do we need it? How do we use it?

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Joey Spooner

Vice President for Community Development and Product Management at Kanban University

Experienced Coach and Professional Trainer with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. Skilled in Coaching, Training, Agile Methodologies, Software Development, Web Development, and Project Management. Strong community and social services professional with an Accredited Kanban Trainer focused in Workforce Development and Training.

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Simon Girvan

Essence Product Manager at Ivar Jacobson International

Simon is an experienced Agile Coach and a regular speaker and contributor to the Agile community. A Subject Matter Expert on Agile for the British Computer Society (BCS) for whom he is currently writing a book on Agile from First Principles. A Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Professional and Fellow of the IET and BCS, he has experience and been certified in a wide range of Agile approaches including SAFe, LeSS, Scrum@Scale and Kanban.

Online Meetup: Kanban and Essence

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Wednesday, February 22, 2023

7:00 – 8:30 PM CET
6:00 – 7:30 PM GMT
1:00 – 2:30 PM EST
​10:00 AM – 11:30 PM PST

The Kanban Method is being applied successfully in a broad range of services and sectors while the number of practitioners and experts is also growing. Like many popular approaches, Kanban is frequently misunderstood and misapplied.

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

“Essentializing” the principles, practices, and key concepts from the Kanban Method opens up new ways for practitioners to improve their organization while using managed evolutionary change in their context.

Register for the Meetup

January News & Views from the Kanban Community

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January News & Views from the Kanban Community

In This Issue

Online Meetup: ​Kanban and Essence – Great Partners

Kanban Coaching Exchange – Agile @ Altitude with Tony Richards

Kanban India 2023 – Call for Reviewer

What is Kanban? An Explanation for Beginners

​Illustration: Get to Know Kanban Better

Online Meetup: Kanban and Essence – Great Partners

The Kanban Method is successfully being applied in a broad range of services and sectors and the number of practitioners and experts is growing. However, like many popular approaches, Kanban is also frequently misunderstood and misapplied. This is one reason why Ivar Jacobson International and Kanban University wanted to bring Essence to the Team level of Kanban. Essentializing a practice like Kanban offers new ways for people to understand it and makes it easier to apply the evolutionary change aspect of Kanban to adopting the Kanban Method itself.

Register for the Meetup

Kanban Coaching Exchange – Agile @ Altitude with Tony Richards

This is a story of a large physical engineering company that transitioned from traditional project delivery practices to Agile whilst maintaining safety and increasing the reliability of the equipment in their care. The difference was that their equipment was located in the ocean hundreds of miles from land.

​In this story, you will discover how the team and organisation visualised their work on and off shore to reveal what stopped the execution of valuable/expensive engineering work. What they did to create a direct connection between the organisation’s strategic objectives and everything delivered in real-time. When the parent organisation decided to introduce multi-disciplinary teams, how these teams pivoted with ease.

Register for Kanban Coaching Exchange

Kanban India 2023 – Call for Reviewer

Have you submitted your interest to be a reviewer for Kanban India 2023? Kanban India is looking for experienced and committed Kanban professionals to come forward and design an excellent program schedule for the 9th edition of Asia’s leading Kanban conference.

Submit Your Interest

What is Kanban? An Explanation for Beginners

A Kanban system is more than sticky notes on the wall. The easiest way to understand Kanban is to adopt its philosophy and apply it to your daily work. If you read, understand, and identify with its basic principles, the practical transition will seem logical and even inevitable.

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Illustration: Get to Know Kanban Better

“Kanban is a method that supports value creators and value creation networks via sustainable and evolving systems focusing on the flow of value.”

We love this illustration shared on LinkedIn by Murat Yurdakul, one of our Accredited Kanban Trainers at Kanban University. He offered special thanks to Duygu Ulaş, who contributed the gorgeous visualization, and Duygu Balci, Ahmet Özcan, Ahmet Akdağ, and Sinan Ökek for their valuable feedback.

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