Online Kanban Accelerators

There is a clear correlation: the more time one can dedicate to a Kanban Accelerator, the better the results will be.

At a minimum, we expect every leader to join for the full 2 hours of the bi-weekly session and also allocate enough time to do whatever work they commit to do until the next session.

Not every session, but we expect members to be there at least 75% of the time. Naturally things out of your control do happen, but it is the responsibility of each member to make time to attend their sessions.

Creating groups with just the right amount of sameness to create belonging but sufficient diversity to create robust value for everyone is a skill we believe we are particularly good at.

We use geographic location, industry, company size, professional maturity, needs profile and a fair amount of "gut feel" to find a perfect match.

Sometimes even we don't understand why we have made a particular decision. It just works :-)

Yes, before a new person is allowed to join a group, we always ask all present members whether they know of any reason why the new person should not join.

Similarly, we ask the potential new member to also have a look at all the present members to see whether there may be any conflicts of interest.

We do this to ensure we can talk freely and openly during each session.

Even though we have allowed this to happen in the past, we don't actively encourage it.

The main reason for this is that we want to keep company politics out of the groups.

When we do allow this, we require that all participants from the same company have completely separate Kanban systems to work with.

Yes and no.

If these questions are about figuring out what the next steps could be, then yes.

If it is merely to know how to achieve a particular technical or operational outcome then there are better ways to achieve this (e.g. by asking on the eXuviate Network).

There are many reasons why this would happen and our first course of action would always be to see if another group could be more appropriate for a participant.

If not, we can either decide to start a new group or alternatively agree to let our arrangement run out.

Yes, our saying is that what happens in the group stays in the group.

Even so, it would be up to every member to make sure they don't divulge important company secrets.

This is generally quite easy as the focus during the sessions is on "how work gets done" and not at all on the work itself.

Not currently.

We would love to do this at some stage in the future, but are also mindful of the value we would loose if we do not have the perspective only an international audience can offer.

Until we figure out how to handle this, English unfortunately remains our only option.