Thursday, September 10, 2009

Kanban Classes in UK, Europe this Autumn

I’m going to be touring Europe over the next 3 months giving a series of Kanban classes. These 2 day classes will give you the knowledge to understand what Kanban is all about, why it’s important and how it might help your organization. You may be surprised to learn that it is a lot more than just puting a few story cards on a board. Kanban is about enabling evolutionary change with minimal resistance. It’s about learning how to set and change policies that constrain performance and hold back organizational effectiveness. It’s about learning how to empower people without loss of control - to make self-organization an organizational discipline and effective capability. It’s about learning how to make objective decisions that optimize business outcomes.

You can read more about the class here.

Participants in the classes will learn how to use the simple process of limiting work-in-progress as a driver of change. Kanban is a change management method and a different approach to striking agreements between IT and the business. Kanban is about making promises you can keep and reaping the rewards of the trust divide that delivering on your promises enables. Kanban enables you to say “Yes” without compromising your core values of sustainable pace, craftsmanship, high quality, integrity, agility, and economic benefit.

To do this you’ll learn how to define the policies that constrain the collaborative game of software development. You’ll learn how to use those policies to manage risk and to reset negotiations and recast them as collaborative problem solving. “Yes, we can do that… Now how would you like to change things to accommodate this decision?”

Used effectively, Kanban will change you and your organization. If your workplace has been stagnating and you are looking for new ideas to unleash innovation, collaboration and creativity take 2 days of your precious time and come along. Find out what all the fuss is about!

I’ll be in…

Stockholm September 24-25 (Crisp)

London October 1-2 (Skillsmatter)

Frankfurt October 5-6 (IT-Agile)

Brussels November 23-24 (ACA IT)

Utrecht November 26-27 (ACA IT)

There has also been suggestions of me coming to Denmark, Poland and France. If you’d like to me to run a Kanban class in your country, please get in touch.