Avinash Rao is a Blackblot certified Master Product Management Professional (Master BPMP) with deep experience and expertise in DevOps and Lean Agile Transformations. Avinash is Kanban University KMP-2 Certified, a DASA Certified DevOps Coach, RF OKR certified Coach and DOI SRE Foundation certified. Avinash has 20+ years of demonstrated competencies in transforming client and internal organizations, leading and coaching for results, and in using Lean, Agile and Kanban techniques to deliver business value.

Avinash is a thought leader who speaks frequently in industry forums and has deep expertise in achieving Enterprise Agility

Move Fast and Don’t Break Things (a Kanban Story)

This is a story of a company that wants to move fast. As a small, rapidly growing player in a competitive industry, the company wants to move fast, respond to clients for both support issues as well as differentiate by delivering new features at an outsize speed.

Now, Process (Agile, Kanban) is seen as slowing down or getting in the way of this speed. What’s a Kanban practitioner to do, coming into this situation, given that we do have to accelerate delivery, improve throughput and flow, and keep up morale? All this, while landing Change in a manner that is not disruptive to the company’s values and beliefs.

First, of course, we start with where we are. Next … find out in this session about companies that want to move fast and NOT break things!