There’s a contact button on the landing page for Right to Left, and through it I got this question which I have permission to reproduce:
Keep up the good work, and btw how do you use the Kanban Method these days, after your current progression?
My reply (verbatim):
In Right to Left you’ll see Kanban as just one of a set of complementary patterns in the Lean-Agile space (none of them more important than the others), and a more general approach to organisation development and the leadership that goes with that.
In my own work, Kanban is still in the mix but I’m very definitely needs & outcomes first, not solutions/framework first. STATIK tries to do a bit of that* but it does rather presuppose the answer! I prefer Reverse STATIK anyway, and my very occasional Kanban training uses that. The principles and practices are abstracted in the values, and they live on through the Agendashift delivery assessment (a conversation-starter, not a checklist of practices).
*To be fair, it does this quite valiantly and self-consistently compared with peer frameworks, but my comment stands.
And a PS, sent moments later:
One thing to add: this is not to diminish anyone’s work on Kanban (my own included) or any other framework. Testing boundaries is learning. But it’s also healthy to draw back a bit and broaden one’s horizons from time to time. And integration is also learning.
Some links to help with decoding the above (I knew my correspondent to be familiar with most of them):
- Right to Left: The digital leader’s guide to Lean And Agile (August 15th, a week from today!)
- Kanban from the Inside (2014, my first book, based around the nine values of my model for Kanban, my own case study, a good description of STATIK, and references to other frameworks and bodies of knowledge)
- Agendashift: Outcome-oriented change and continuous transformation (2018, my second, making what I do these days more easily transferable to others)
- STATIK, Kanban’s hidden gem (2014, the acronym coined)
- Introducing the pathway edition (2016, Agendashift support for Reverse STATIK)
- Introducing Kanban through its values (2013, the career-changing blog post)
- Resources: Agendashift Assessments
Autumn workshops
– Stockholm, Athens, London, Istanbul, Berlin, and online
- 9-10 September, Stockholm, Sweden (myself and Kjell Tore Guttormsen):
2-day Advanced Agendashift workshop: Coaching and Leading Continuous Transformation - 17-18 September, Athens, Greece (myself and Nikos Batsios):
2-day Advanced Agendashift workshop: Coaching and Leading Continuous Transformation - 3-4 October, London, UK:
2-day Advanced Agendashift workshop: Coaching and Leading Continuous Transformation - 15-16 October, online, two 2-hour sessions, mornings UK time:
Agendashift online: Learning the language of outcomes - 26th October (changed from the 23rd), Istanbul, Turkey:
1-day Core Agendashift workshop: Facilitating outcome-oriented change - 13-14 November, Berlin, Germany:
2-day Advanced Agendashift workshop: Coaching and Leading Continuous Transformation - 5-6 December, online, two 2-hour sessions, afternoons UK time:
Agendashift online: Learning the language of outcomes
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