Three successful years of evolutionary change in India


Lean Kanban India, under the umbrella of Lean Kanban Inc, USA, has been conducting its flagship international conference since the last 3 years. The conference has been a platform to further The Kanban Method, hereby referred to as Kanban, and its adoption. Kanban has often been referred to as the "Alternate path to Agility". Over the years, we have received excellent feedback from our participants. We have got valuable feedback that we have tried to incorporate in our subsequent conferences. The conference has been attended by over 400 participants from 10+ countries. We have International speakers who are thought leaders within the Kanban community sharing their global real time experience with facts and figures.

The conference is accompanied by pre and post conference workshops. The conference promises variety of quality sessions and workshops covering Foundation Kanban, Enterprise Kanban, Devops, and Coaching with case studies. Kanban has always been about "pragmatic, actionable evidence-based guidance” and this conference will bring more of the same to you".

Confirmed Speakers



David Anderson
Originator of The Kanban Method and Enterprise Services Planning


Shri Swami Shantatmananda
Secretary, Ramakrishna Mission, Delhi


Patrick Steyaert
Patrick Steyaert
Founder, Principal Coach and Trainer at Okaloa


Mike Burrows
Founder at Agendashift


Janice Linden-Reed
CEO, Lean Kanban Inc.


Sudipta Lahiri
Head of Products, Digite Inc.


Priyank Pathak
Agile Leader & Curator, INNOVATION ROOTS


Ajay Reddy
Founder, ScrumDo


Ali Alper Tonga
Lean Facilitator, ACM


Rajeev Batra
Director - Product Engineering and Agile Transformation, Optum


Avinash Rao
Sr. Account Director, CPG and Retail, Mindtree


Sutap Choudhury
Agile Coach, Malonus


Saikat Das
Associate Director - Agile Program Management, Cognizant


Nandakumar N
Consultant, Cognizant


Harsha Vardhan
IT Director, United Health Group


Sanjay Kumar
Agile Trainer & Coach, iZenBridge Consultancy Private Limited


Raman Sidhu
Enterprise Agile Coach, Optum


Kamini Godbole
Senior Project Manager, Persistent Systems Limited


Brett Ansley
Agile Kanban Coach, Brett Ansley Consulting


Ravi Tadwalkar
Principal Lean/Agile/DevOps Coach, Infosys


Ahmet Akdag
Agile Consultant and Trainer, ACM


Jasdeep Singh Kaler
AVP & Business Transformation Leader, EdgeVerve Systems Ltd.


Vandita Tiwari
Consultant, Cognizant


Vikas Kapila
Lean-Agile Coach


Uday Atla
Staff Technical Program Manager, VMware


Amanda Varella
Agile Coach, Elabor8

Call for Proposal

Lean Kanban India is inviting proposals on these recommended areas


  Kanban Principles & Practices

  Kanban: An alternate path to Enterprise Agility

  Kanban Experience Case Studies with quantified metrics

  Kanban with SAFe/SCRUM

  Kanban in Non-IT environments




Submission Closed

Program Schedule

Friday 15th September

Time Event
06:30 - 08:30 Registration
08:30 - 09:30


"Introducing the Kanban Maturity Model"
David J Anderson
(Chairman, Lean Kanban Inc.)
09:30 - 09:45 Program Overview - Noopur
09:45-10:45


"Secret of Work"
Shri Swami Shantatmananda
(Secretary, Ramakrishna Mission, Delhi)
10:45-11:00 AM Break
Alsace Bordeaux Eureka
11:00 - 11:45


"Case Study: Enterprise Transformation of a Telecom company using Kanban"
Priyank Pathak
(Agile & Continuous Delivery Consultant, INNOVATION ROOTS)


"Scaling without cross-functional teams"
Mike Burrows
(Founder, Agendashift)


"Kanban for Business: A (very large) Experiment"
Avinash Rao
(Sr. Account Director, Mindtree)
11:45 - 12:30


"How to explain Kanban"
Janice Linden-Reed
(CEO, Lean Kanban Inc.)


"Case Study: Results of Applying Lean Principles at Team Level (Proto-Kanban)"
Ali Alper Tonga
(Lean Facilitator, ACM)


"Towards Smarter Digital Transformation, Leading Kanban is definitely one of the ways"
Harsha Vardhan
(IT Director, United Health Group)
12:30 - 13:30 LUNCH
13:30 - 14:15


"Managing Shared Services in SAFe with Kanban"
Saikat Das
(Associate Director, Cognizant)


"Personal Kanban Workshop"
Sudipta Lahiri
(Head of Products, Digite Inc.)


"Case Study: Evolutionary Change with Kanban Method"
Sanjay Kumar
(Agile Trainer & Coach)
14:15 - 15:00


"Case Study: Hybrid Agile Implementation Model to Enable Enterprise Agility in 9 months (with focus on Kanban and Flow Management)"
Jasdeep Singh Kaler
(AVP & Business Transformation Leader, EdgeVerve Systems Ltd.)


"Scaled Agile Portfolio Management (code name: Garden)"
Ahmet Akdag
(Agile Consultant and Trainer, ACM)
15:00 - 15:15 PM Break
15:15 - 16:00


"Why Psychological Safety matters"
Brett Ansley
(Agile Kanban Coach, Brett Ansley Consulting)


"Practical Scrumban"
Ajay Reddy
(Founder, ScrumDo)


"Kanban Devops - Do or Die"
Rajeev Batra
(Director - Product Engineering and Agile Transfomation, Optum)
16:00-17:00
Panel Discussion
(Mike Burrows, Patrick Steyaert, Priyank Pathak, Sudipta Lahiri)

Saturday 16th September

Time Event
06:30 - 08:30 Registration
08:30 - 09:30


"Managing change in the 21st century: what we know & where we must do better"
Mike Burrows
(Founder, Agendashift)
09:30 - 09:45 Program Overview - Noopur
09:45 - 10:45


"Shaping demand and customer pull with Upstream and Customer Kanban"
Patrick Steyaert
(Founder, Okaloa)
10:45-11:00 AM Break
Alsace Bordeaux Eureka
11:00 - 11:45


"Case Study: Solving the right problems with Kanban, a tale of 30 teams"
Amanda Varella
(Agile Coach, Elabor8)


"SAFeban"
Ajay Reddy
(Founder, ScrumDo)


"Portfolio Management using Kanban"
Uday Atla
(Staff Technical Program Manager, VMware)
11:45 - 12:30


"Stochastic models for forecasting projects"
Brett Ansley
(Agile Kanban Coach, Brett Ansley Consulting)


"Damn… we missed the date again!"
Sudipta Lahiri
(Head of Products, Digite Inc.)


"Implementing SAFe 4.0 with Kanban"
Vikas Kapila
(Lean-Agile Coach)
12:30 - 13:30 LUNCH
13:30 - 14:15


"Case Study in Pictures: Leveraging Lean, TPS and Agile to implement DevOps"
Ravi Tadwalkar
(Principal Lean/Agile/DevOps Coach, Infosys)


"Why Change Workshop"
Priyank Pathak
(Agile & Continuous Delivery Consultant, INNOVATION ROOTS)


"Kanban: A definite answer for effective project execution in uncertainties "
Kamini Godbole
(Senior Project Manager, Persistent Systems Limited)
14:15 - 15:00


"Can you see the bottleneck?"
Sutap Choudhury
(Agile Coach)


"Lean-Kanban Assessment and Implementation for an Insurance client"
Nandakumar N
(Consultant, Cognizant)
15:00 - 15:15 PM Break
15:15 - 16:00


"Kanban journey in Data World of Software Development"
Raman Sidhu
(Enterprise Agile Coach, Optum)


"Teaching and coaching Agility without (going down the rabbit hole of) agile methods"
Patrick Steyaert
(Founder, Okaloa)


"Application Value Flow"
Vandita Tiwari
(Consultant, Cognizant)
16:00 - 17:00


"First Who, Then Why"
David J Anderson
(Chairman, Lean Kanban Inc.)

Legends

  •  Keynote Speaker
  •  Kanban Principles & Practices
  •  Kanban: An alternate path to Enterprise Agility
  •  Kanban Experience Case Studies with quantified metrics
  •  Kanban in Non-IT environments
  •  Kanban with SAFe/SCRUM
  •  Panel Discussion
  •  Program Introduction

Meet Our Reviewers

Mahesh Singh

Mahesh Singh
[ KCP ]

Sudipta Lahiri

Sudipta Lahiri
[ AKT ]

Priyank Pathak

Priyank Pathak
[ Kanban Practitioner ]

Avinash Rao

Avinash Rao
[ Kanban Practitioner ]

Marcio Sete

Marcio Sete
[ AKT ]

Amit Kaulagekar

Amit Kaulagekar
[ AKT ]

Workshops

Lean Kanban Train the Trainer – AKT


This class will thoroughly review the LKU Certified Kanban Training curriculum, explore advanced topics relevant to Kanban training, and discuss the challenges of teaching Kanban classes. It is appropriate for people who have some experience with the Kanban Method and who wish to teach Kanban classes publicly or within an organization. Each attendee will present a relevant case study. Most attendees will be working towards achieving Accredited Kanban Trainer (AKT) status.


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  • Date: Sept 10-14, 2017
  • Participant Profile: Trainer, Coach, Consultants, Leaders, Change Agents
  • Approach: 5 Days workshop
  • Seats: 10
  • Location: Bengaluru

Kanban Coaching Professional Masterclass - KCP


This leadership & coaching masterclass is for consultants, coaches, change agents, managers and Kanban practitioners who want to take it further. Spend 5 days with pioneer of Kanban, David J. Anderson. This workshop is limited to 12 people. Achieve the educational requirement for the Kanban Coaching Professional designation from Lean Kanban University.
This masterclass is ideal for anyone tasked with leading a change initiative in their organization or at a client organization in the next year. Attendees are also expected to be familiar with the content of the book, “Kanban – Successful Evolutionary Change for your Technology Business” by David J Anderson


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  • Date: Sept 18-22, 2017
  • Participant Profile: Leaders, Consultant, Change Agents, Coach and Manager
  • Approach: 5 Days workshop
  • Seats: 12
  • Location: Bengaluru

Bengaluru Flow Days


This 2-day workshop brings together Okaloa Flowlab and Agendashift Practitioner’s workshop. On the first day with Patrick Steyaert, you will use Okaloa Flowlab to explore ways to bring about more collaboration, awareness and empathy between upstream and downstream partners. On the next day with Mike Burrows in his Agendashift Practitioner’s workshop, you will explore new ways to approach Lean-Agile transformation and learn some great tools to grow your competencies as a coach.


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  • Date: Sept 17-18, 2017
  • Participant Profile: Kanban Coach, Scrum Masters, Manager and Leaders
  • Approach: 2 Days workshop
  • Seats: 30
  • Location: Bengaluru

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