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Level Up Your KLR Europe Experience!

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Level Up Your Kanban Leadership Retreat Europe Experience!

Tuesday, June 27 and Wednesday, June 28
Mayrhofen, Austria

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.

Start exploring the Leveling Up Days below. Then head to the KLR website for more details like eligibility requirements and pricing information.

There are a very limited number of attendees for each Leveling Up session, so grab your spot soon! And if you haven’t registered for KLR yet, be aware that prices will increase after March 31st!

Please email us at events@kanban.university to add a session to your Kanban Leadership Retreat registration.

Learn More About Leveling Up Days

Coach the Trainer: Kanban for Design and Innovation (KDI)

Tuesday, June 27
Full day, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Trainer: Anna Radzikowska

This Coach the Trainer session is for active Accredited Kanban Trainers (AKTs) looking to add the Kanban for Design and Innovation course to their training portfolios through Kanban University.

Kanban for Design and Innovation gives you the skills to scale and evolve while focusing on Upstream Kanban techniques for prioritization and organization of ideas. Decide what to invest in, what can wait for later, and what to discard using an Upstream Kanban system and principles. Use evolutionary change to improve processes without a traumatic, abrupt change. Get started with learning how to scale Kanban across an organization.

Coach the Trainer: Enterprise Scale Kanban (ESK)

Tuesday, June 27
Full day, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Trainer: David J Anderson

This Coach the Trainer session is for active Accredited Kanban Trainers (AKTs) looking to add the newly announced Enterprise Scale Kanban course to their training portfolios through Kanban University.

Enterprise Scale Kanban (ESK) is intended to take Kanban Management Professionals to the next level and help them understand not only the practices required to enable enterprise scale Kanban deployments but also leadership, culture, and organizational maturity required for effective large-scale implementation. The class brings techniques from Enterprise Services Planning (ESP), together with the Kanban Maturity Model (KMM) and an understanding of Leadership and its role in enabling deeper organizational maturity and scaling.

Coaching Workshop with David J Anderson and the 2nd Edition of the Kanban Blue Book

Wednesday, June 28
Full day, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Trainer: David J Anderson

Take the opportunity to join this interactive full day workshop with David J Anderson as you explore and work through a number of exercises using the much-anticipated 2nd edition of the Kanban Blue Book! Dive deep with David as he walks you through his concepts and recommendations for how to coach the Kanban Method in organizations. Learn how to make the most of the Kanban Coaching practices to influence and mature organizations up to Maturity Level 4 and beyond. Discover how the coaching practices can advance your ability to utilize managed evolutionary change to enable greater adoption of mature Kanban practices and concepts.

This workshop is open to Accredited Kanban Consultants (AKCs), Accredited Kanban Trainers (AKTs), and Kanban Coaching Professionals (KCPs) who are looking to take their coaching skills to the next level!

Coach the Trainer: Scrum Better with Kanban

Wednesday, June 28
Half day, 9:00 am – 1:00 pm
Trainers: Todd Little, Joey Spooner, and Bianca Griffioen

This Coach the Trainer session is for active Accredited Kanban Trainers (AKTs) looking to add the NEW Scrum Better with Kanban course to their training portfolios through Kanban University.

Join Bianca Griffioen, Todd Little, and Joey Spooner as they take you through a Coach the Trainer session on how to deliver the newly added Scrum Better with Kanban course. This new course is based on the learning objectives of the Team Kanban Practitioner while targeting the challenges many Scrum teams face when using the Scrum Framework within their organizations. Your opportunity is to teach them how to Scrum Better with Kanban!

This session will ensure you understand who the training is for, the course architecture, course exercises, and key marketing messages and materials. We will also be seeking your feedback from this session – what needs to change, what could improve, what would you do differently. Come join us and help engage a broader market!

Kanban University Connect LIVE! Meeting

Wednesday, June 28
Half day, 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Trainers: Todd Little, Joey Spooner, and Bianca Griffioen

The Kanban University Connect LIVE! Meeting is for everyone in the Kanban University community or those interested in joining. This in-person meeting, for KLR attendees, is designed to present the most recent Kanban University student numbers and growth trends across the globe, as well as connect with you to get feedback and discussion time for all things Kanban University. This meeting is free to attend, and we look forward to seeing you there!

Kanban Leadership Retreat – Built by YOU

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Kanban Leadership Retreat
Built by YOU

Attendees at Kanban Leadership Retreat review and vote on topics on multicolor sticky notes.

When we say the schedule at a Kanban Leadership Retreat is built by YOU, we mean it! The Wednesday night planning session is spent presenting and voting on the topics YOU want to explore deeper during the three-day retreat.

Find Next Kanban Leadership Retreat

At our 2022 KLR in Mayrhofen, Austria, our sessions included these topics and more.

What will you bring to the board in 2023?

Coaching

  • What does a Kanban coach do and what’s different when compared to an agile coach?
  • How do we debunk resistance to change with our peers?
  • What strategies are there for improving the lead time for more than 80 teams?​

Maturity and Scale

  • How can we assess an organization’s maturity?
  • How can Kanban help create realistic roadmaps?
  • How can we use Kanban alongside scaling models?​

Diving Deeper

  • What can we learn about Kanban and Flight Levels?
  • How can we move away from OKRs to continuous planning?
  • What else is out there for maturity level barriers?

Stay tuned for more information on LEVELING UP DAYS on June 27 and 28!

How to Take Your Kanban Game to the Next Levels

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How to Take Your Kanban Game to the Next Levels

What happens at a Kanban University event? Watch our video below to experience how we Challenge, Connect, and Explore our mutual passion for Kanban!

Your next opportunity to join the Kanban community at an in-person event is Kanban Leadership Retreat, June 28-30 in Mayrhofen, Austria.

Register to be there and learn how to take your Kanban game to the next levels.

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“The Kanban Leadership Retreat is a great place to come if you’re interested in not just using the Kanban Method, but helping it evolve and bringing your experience to the table and becoming part of this community.”

Erik Sowa
Accredited Kanban Consultant
Salesforce

Register for Kanban Leadership Retreat Europe At The Lowest Price

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Register for 2023 Kanban Leadership Retreat Europe At The Lowest Price

Prices will go up January 1st!

A group of attendees at Kanban Leadership Retreat. Some are sitting at tables and some are presenting.

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

Get the lowest price available when you register by December 31, 2022. Prices will increase to the next level once the calendar flips over to 2023. Register today!

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Got questions or special requests? Contact us directly at events@kanban.university.

Recapping Kanban Week 2022

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Recapping Kanban Week 2022

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

We learned that Kanban is alive and well throughout the world at scale. So many participants were discussing how their leadership is getting involved by leading initiatives using Kanban practices.

KGS attendees learned the lost arts of leadership from Chet Richards and found laughter in Michael Godeck’s delightful and creative presentation that was powerful enough to make Dragos yell “You’re hired!”

We saw so many great talks that focused on how Kanban is used within large organizations, including Adobe, IBM, the US Department of Homeland Security, and major financial institutions within Brazil.

“Unlike other conferences, Kanban Global Summit provides real-life practical insights and new innovations that are pushing the state of the art in business management.”

Craeg Strong

At KLR, we finally got to Connect, Explore, and Challenge key topics like Leadership Development with Kanban, STATIK for Upstream, Kanban Consulting Engagements Lessons Learned, and the Dream Dashboard of the Kanban C-Level. Everyone had a chance to propose, participate, and discuss these concepts and more. We all went home feeling proud to be a part of this community of Kanban practitioners and are looking forward to next year’s KLR.

Both events were also filled with great meal-time conversations among colleagues and, for the first time in two years, we were able to sit among our peers (both new and experienced) to explore and challenge concepts in Kanban.

Stay tuned for Kanban Global Summit videos and presentations coming out at the end of October!

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“Leaders in the Kanban Community welcome, encourage, and share their knowledge and experiences while inviting participation, collaboration, and engagement. KLR is a one of kind learning experience.”

Aparna Renganathan

Cheers from the Kanban University Team! 

The Kanban Community Returns to Austria

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The Kanban Community Returns to Austria!

Kanban Leadership Retreat Recap

Last week, 41 Kanban enthusiasts from around the world were thrilled to gather in person again for the 2022 Kanban Leadership Retreat in Mayrhofen, Austria.

Attendees discussed Upstream STATIK, making Scrum better with Kanban, Kanban beyond IT, Debunking Resistance to Change, and many, many more subjects. We exchanged knowledge, created communities, and shared experiences, food, and drinks. Some folks went climbing, others went biking, and relaxing with a massage was even an option. Best of all, we connected and reconnected.

In other words, KLR in Austria was amazing! See for yourself in our photos below.

We can’t wait to do it again this August at the upcoming U.S. Kanban Leadership Retreat in San Diego, California. Don’t miss out on your opportunity to experience KLR this year.

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The weather was beautiful, the mountains were gorgeous, and the welcome at the Europahaus was hospitable as always.

The fridge was still magical, the music embraced the Austrian ambiance perfectly, and the crowd was amazing, of course!