Markus Wissekal: Step-by-step - What I learned about Kanban on a 400-km hike

Kanban’s core practices together with its principles and values make it the most effective method for evolutionary change. Have you ever applied them outside of their business context? Hiking 400 Km across Spain, I had more than enough opportunity for measuring and adapting my continuous improvement.

Every journey begins with a single step. Walking the Camino de Santiago for two weeks took me 586,444. In this very personal talk I will share what I’ve learned about the practices of Kanban after applying them to learn about myself and making changes along the way.

Bio:
Born and raised in Vienna, is what you would call an agile Swiss Army knife. Accredited Kanban Trainer, Scrum Professional, Lego Serious Play Facilitator, Systemic Business Coach, Design Thinker, MSc. in Medical Computer Science and founder of a Swiss consultancy are just a few lines on Markus’ CV. He has been applying this combination of technology, business and solution-focused thinking for the past ten years in helping SMEs, multi-national corporates and start-ups turn agile. Markus loves visionary project kick-offs, maximizing the effectiveness of his agile teams, coaching the program management in multi-million-dollar environments as well as working with C-level.

The organiser Silke
Silke is an Enterprise Coach, Accredited Kanban Trainer, Kanban Product Professional, Kanban Coaching Professional and Kanban Management Professional in New Zealand and certified facilitator of all versions of the Okaloa Flowlab. Her public classes "Team Kanban Practitioner", "Kanban System Design", "Kanban Systems Improvement" and soon "Kanban for Design and Innovation" (the Product Manager / Product Owner / Project Manager path of the KMP credential) can be found under her Kanban University profile. https://kanban.university/kuapps/#/user-profile/user/24536. She has trained many people and organisations also in-house around New Zealand.
As an intercultural trainer, she has written the two only intercultural books about New Zealand in German, one of them translated into English. https://wahlheimat-neuseeland.de/silke-noll-training-and-coaching/
She has previously worked in Scrum, SAFe, Nexus, LeSS and waterfall contexts as a Business Analyst, Tester, Scrum Master and Agile Coach. Her original background is (investment) banking / trading.
She loves networking, intercultural topics, kite-surfing, running, gym, sauna, tramping, languages, learning new things, going on roadies with her van, wine, good food, hanging out with friends.