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

October News & Views from the Kanban Community

In This Issue

Free Masterclass: How to Plan Your Next Release Without Counting Hours (or Story Points)

Upcoming Webinar: The Kanban Maturity Model – What’s New?

Free Masterclass: The Preventable Pandemic: Stop the Transformationitis and the Reorganizationitis

Kanban Coaching Exchange: Kanban, Squirrels and the Alternative Path to Agility with Andre Suman

Kanban Brazil 2021: Resiliência Para Tempos Incertos

Kanban Community Days 2021 (German)

New Kanban Resources in Russian

Emerging Roles in Kanban

Elevate Change Podcast: Kanban Clinic with Joey Spooner

5 Things You Need to Know About Lead Time

Free Masterclass: How to Plan Your Next Release Without Counting Hours (or Story Points)

October 12: 17:00 UTC, 19:00 CEST, 1:00 pm EDT
October 13: 7:00 UTC, 9:00 CEST, 3:00 am EDT
October 13: 15:00 UTC, 17:00 CEST, 11:00 am EDT

Join Nave’s free masterclass where Founder Sonya Siderova will share the model that doesn’t rely on guesswork, intuition or gut feeling. With this strategy, you’ll only need a couple of minutes to offer a reliable delivery commitment.

Upcoming Webinar: The Kanban Maturity Model – What’s New?

Thursday, October 14
18:00 CEST
12:00 pm EDT

It has been one year since the release of the 2nd Edition of the Kanban Maturity Model and the announcement of the KMM+ platform. This October, the team meets again to talk about what is new with the KMM and what is yet to come. Join the authors of the KMM, David J Anderson and Teodora Bozheva, as well as KMM+ product manager Anna Radzikowska. The webinar will take a look at what updates have been made to the model, including new leadership material, new project and portfolio management material, and KMM and KMM+ plans.

Free Masterclass
The Preventable Pandemic: Stop the Transformationitis and the Reorganizationitis

Monday, October 18, 2021
16:30 CEST
10:30 am EDT

How does the Kanban Method help you transform your organization by adapting to its evolution without falling into “transformationitis” or “reorganizationitis.” Todd Little, Chairman of Kanban University, and Joey Spooner, Vice President of Community Development and Product Management, will present a Masterclass during Netmind’s Adaptive Organizations Week. The free virtual event enables attendees to share experiences and reflect on how to help organizations adapt flexibly and quickly to a complex and rapidly changing world.

Kanban, Squirrels and the Alternative Path to Agility with Andre Suman

Thursday, October 21, 2021
​19:30 to 21:00 CEST
1:30 pm to 3:00 pm EDT

Discover a great Kanban case based on acts of leadership, autonomy, courage, and a small dose of trickery. The IT area of a large bank present in Brazil is one of the world’s biggest cases of agility, with more than 200 teams and 5000 people directly involved. Until the beginning of 2017, the projects used Scrum (70%), Waterfall (30%), in addition, architecture, security, support teams, and others without a specific work model. Agile Coaches identified teams where Scrum was not “Fit for Purpose” and the Kanban Method emerged as an alternative path to Agility.

Kanban Brazil 2021: Resiliência Para Tempos Incertos

ONLINE
25 a 28 de Outubro de 2021

O Kanban Brazil 2021 será ONLINE nas tardes de 25 a 28 de Outubro com keynotes confirmados de David Anderson, Alisson Vale, Janice Linden-Reed e Rodrigo Yoshima.

Kanban Community Days 2021 (German)

Montag bis Dienstag 15. + 16. November 2021
13:30 – 21:30 CEST
7:30 am – 3:30 pm EDT

Diese Plattform zum Austausch ist geboren aus der Pandemie und mittlerweile nicht mehr wegzudenken. Unser Motto ist: “Von der Community für die Community”. Wir haben eine Menge an Bodenhaftung und fokussieren uns voll auf den Nutzen und Effekt von flussbasiertem Arbeiten mit dem Namen “Kanban”. Bei uns sind alle willkommen, die sich davon ein Bild machen wollen. Neugierige Anfänger genauso wie alte Hasen.

New Kanban Resources in Russian

Всем привет! Two essential Kanban resources are now available in Russian. Mauvisoft has released the Triage Tables Poster and Kanban University has translated the Official Guide to the Kanban Method. Get your copies today!

Emerging Roles in Kanban

Kanban has always been the “start with what you do now” method, and no one gets a “new role, responsibilities, or job titles” at least not initially. However, it is now clear that some roles are emerging in the field with some implementations. Take a look at some of the emerging roles with this new post by Anna Radzikowska.

Elevate Change Podcast: Kanban Clinic with Joey Spooner

The Elevate Change podcast featured Kanban University’s Joey Spooner interviewed by Shahin Sheidaei as part of the #KanbanClinic series. The conversation includes these topics: Kanban as a Method vs a Tool; Upstream and Delivery Stream; Stealth Kanban; KLR and Kanban Week; Q&A with Joey; Scrum and/vs Kanban in large organizations; Kanban in Transformation world; Chaos being hidden as Expedite.

5 Things You Need to Know About Lead Time

Have you ever heard of lead time? Lead Time is the amount of time between process initiation and completion. Discover in more detail some relevant aspects that will help you in your professional and personal life with this video from the David J Anderson School of Management.

Get to Know Wolfgang Wiedenroth and Priyank Pathak

Our Kanban University Distinguished Fellows interviews continue! This month, Todd Little talks with Wolfgang and Priyank about their Kanban journeys and how the Kanban University community has evolved in 10 years.

​Watch below to hear more.

How have you seen the Kanban community evolve over the last 10 years?

“In the beginning, it was a bunch of people seeking knowledge – how to find a good way to improve work and how they can do that with Kanban. Today, it’s more about people spreading the word. We have a good understanding of how things work. It’s less searching and more talking and helping people. So the community itself was looking for answers and today we are sharing our knowledge and spreading what we have found.”

Wolfgang Wiedenroth
Trainer, Consultant, Flowmaker for Business Agility
it-agile

How have you seen the Kanban community evolve?

“As a community, it has transformed completely over the last 10 years. You see various conference and retreats happening across the globe. Along with that, you see a lot of new courses and a lot of new people. There are amazing people at Kanban University and, as a community, new faces and value adding people have joined. It has grown, it is continuously growing and continuously evolving. As we say, it is pragmatic and it is actionable.”

Priyank Pathak
Founder and CEO
INNOVATIONROOTS.com

Deliver Business Agility Faster for Lower Cost

The Kanban Maturity Model enables businesses of all sizes to discover and develop agility faster for lower cost. The model includes 10 years of creating unity, alignment, a sense of purpose, and good governance for businesses through evolutionary change techniques.

Discover the pragmatic techniques that will help you understand where your organization is today and how to evolve faster and more cost-effective business agility.

Evolve Your Learning with KMM.Plus

The Kanban Maturity Model is always evolving. By learning from users, authors David Anderson and Teodora Bozheva are continuously adding new information and improvements via the KMM.plus site. Learn and explore the deeper facets of the Maturity Model through this site.