Launching the Kanban Method at global scale with great results in just one year

Agile adoptions are failing at a higher rate than ever. Industry reports say that cultural change is a major impediment for new ways of working to be accepted.  Many consulting organizations are mandating and pushing bad practices on people instead of meeting stakeholders where they are at.

As leaders of a global enterprise agile coaching team, we were responsible for a roll out strategy to train and coach a large enterprise infrastructure and operations group and help them adopt a new way of working.

In a little over a year, our coaching team launched 200 agile teams in 18 countries and 105 locations. We successfully championed and executed the use of the Kanban Method for 75 teams where the nature of the work was on-demand and transactional in nature.

Now we will share our experiences: inviting leadership to consider another approach; defining the rollout strategy; launching the teams; organizing an engaged community of practice; and creating a safe space where experiments, learning, and innovation could grow.

Hear how the teams achieved outcomes focused on eliminating manual handoffs and dependencies, improving cycle and lead times, and drastically reducing demand, while creating a sustainable and enjoyable flow of work.