Essence & Kanban: Great Partners

When one is asked to describe common approaches and tools used in software development today, it won’t be long until Kanban is mentioned. For many teams, Kanban is synonymous with the Kanban board, but in fact it is much more than that.
For years, David Anderson has been developing the Kanban Method and the Kanban Maturity Model to help teams and organizations of all shapes and sizes to smoothly deliver value to their customers, while instilling a culture of evolutionary change.
The Kanban Method is successfully being applied in a broad range of services and sectors and the number of practitioners and experts is growing. However, like many popular approaches, Kanban is also frequently misunderstood and misapplied. This is one reason why IJI and Kanban University wanted to bring Essence to the Team level of Kanban. Essentializing a practice like Kanban offers new ways for people to understand it and makes it easier to apply the evolutionary change aspect of Kanban to adopting the Kanban Method itself.
The Essence Standard is the result of Dr. Ivar Jacobson building on his experience as a creator of Use Cases and the Rational Unified Process to re-imagine how teams use software development methods and practices. Essence provides a way to democratize practices, using a method agnostic common language to describe any practice and make it easy for organizations and teams to find the right combination of practices and approaches for them.
We are thrilled to welcome David Anderson, the originator of The Kanban Method and co-creator of the Kanban Maturity Model in conversation with Ivar Jacobson, co-creator of Essence to talk about their partnership and some of the challenges that they are addressing.
They will be joined by Joey Spooner, Vice President of Community Development and Product Management at Kanban University and Simon Girvan, Principal Consultant and Product Manager for Essence at Ivar Jacobson International to talk about some of the practical ways to use The Kanban Method and Essence.
You can expect to learn from the insights of two pioneers in the methodology and practices space, including how they see the future. In addition, we will present the Team Kanban and Kanban Foundations cards. Simon and Joey will show you some games to play that draw on the principles of managed evolutionary change to help you improve how you work, whether you use The Kanban Method already or not.