Determinism is the dark side. Let The Force guide you. When you feel the pull of the dark side to satisfy expectations, reach for your Sonic Screwdriver – and overcome your challenges by introducing classes of service. Class of Service is to the Kanban coach what the Sonic Screwdriver is to Dr. Who – a tool to take on any challenge! Learn how to apply classes of service to achieve large enterprise scale Kanban implementations.

Often, product development teams struggle to tell the story of how we came to the solution we’ve landed upon and delivered. In cloud infrastructure development, we use discovery technique which often involves testing new ideas to see if they solve the problem and bring the expected value we’ve intended to develop. This process often starts with an idea “a” that morphs and transforms into a product/technology “z”. Because of their position, executive leaders often don’t get this story which can lead to frustration and churn.

Discover the possibilities of Agile Marketing and the power of applying Agile outside of IT. Maria Matarelli explores a case study of Agile applied to Marketing and discusses the benefits of aligning your organization’s use of Agile across departments along with the mindset shift necessary.

We often look to our engineering teams first to drive efficiency and speed to deliver but as we optimize the flow of our development processes we quickly create pressure in the organizational workflow with the activities that feed into and out of product delivery. Product definition struggles to keep pace and establish a queue of viable options to pull from. Marketing efforts begin to pile up as features release faster than we can share the news. All of this stems from optimizing only one part of the overall system. In this webinar, we will look at how to scale Kanban practices to the entire organization to provide the visibility, flexibility, and predictability to make every part of the business truly agile.

David looks at seven problems in this webinar which deep Kanban implementations address and which practitioners in shallow proto-Kanban implementations don’t yet address. The webinar provides pragmatic actions you can take to make the paradigm shift to “pull” and leverage the economic benefits that it promises at Enterprise Scale

The purpose of a business organization is to create value for its customers through meaningful work. In a fast-paced world, this proves to be quite a challenge. Organizations need to cope with a fluctuating, fragmented, and often, conflicting demand. This is the source of much frustration and tension (and loss of value).

Kanban is effective in helping organizations change their behavior. Behavioral economics helps us understand some of the underlying reasons why people act the way they do. In this talk Masa K Maeda will show how we can combine them to make people and their organizations more successful.

Kanban is now table stakes for many businesses managing enterprise services delivery. They have learned that introducing Kanban to their management system has improved service delivery with typical results showing 400% increase in delivery rate, drops in lead time ranging from 50% to 90%, and significant gains in predictability and on-time delivery.

Most Agile frameworks reach their limits when one wants to “agilize” more than a few teams, let alone when one wants to achieve real agile collaboration of several hundred people across the organization. The main problem is that most agile methods focus on team-level performance. In the best case, you don’t see any improvement, in most of the cases it is getting worse. Local optimization leads to global sub optimization! But what does this mean? And how can you increase agility beyond the team?