In the second live special edition of Agile Lean Europe (ALE) 2025 in Munich, Ina Galinski and Carsten Rüscher, together with guests from the audience, delve deeper into key Kanban topics. In English, they discuss value streams in large organizations, unusual visualizations, practical tips and tricks, major "fuck-ups," and personal moments of success with Kanban.

Topics & Highlights

🌊 Value streams in corporations:

• Opportunities & pitfalls in visualization – why different perspectives are worth their weight in gold.

👀 Impressive visualizations:

• From lipstick development to South Park cards – creative examples from practice.

🛠️ Tips & tricks for boards:

• Why Definition of Ready/Done does not belong in separate columns, "Martins Gate," and gamification with stamps & sounds.

💥 Biggest fuck-ups:

• When Kanban boards suddenly look like Waterfall – and what coaches learn from it.

🌟 Success stories:

• The "spark moments": Teams realize that focus, flow, and transparency really work.

Key takeaways

• Value stream mapping creates transparency – but often also political discussions.

• Unusual visualizations (AI images, physical boards with webcams, gamification) can inspire teams in new ways.

• Tips & tricks: Keep boards short, avoid "spaghetti processes," work consciously with policies.

• Failure is part of the process – every supposed "fuck-up" provides valuable learning opportunities.

• Successes are often the simple things: when teams find focus, break down barriers, and experience real flow.

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Thanks to all participants who joined our session and gave us their questions. We are very thankful, have had you in the session and gave this episode its own flavour.

In this first special edition of Agile Lean Europe (ALE) 2025 in Munich, Ina Galinski and Carsten Rüscher will take questions directly from the audience – live, spontaneously and in English. The focus will be on practical questions relating to the use of Kanban in teams, services and large organisations.

Topics & highlights

🎯 STATIK (Systems Thinking Approach to Introducing Kanban):

• When is a one-off workshop sufficient, and when is it worthwhile to reflect regularly?

🔄 Iterations in Kanban – yes or no?

• Iterations as Scrum rhythm vs. Kanban focus via WIP limits.

⏱️ Lead time vs. cycle time:

• Why customers only feel the total wait time – and which metric really counts.

📏 Ticket sizes:

• Fibonacci? T-shirt sizing? Or time boxes – and why it helps with forecasting.

🛑 Blockers & "Stop starting, start finishing":

• Why WIP limits come to nothing when blockers are ignored.

🏢 Business agility:

• How Kanban principles, flight levels and enterprise service management enable transparency and strategic decisions.

👥 Kanban & team dynamics (Tuckman model):

• Evolutionary change instead of big bang – how Kanban works in every team phase.

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Thanks to all participants who joined our session and gave us their questions. We are very thankful, have had you in the session and gave this episode its own flavour.

Wir sind in einer neuen Staffel angekommen. Nach 45 Folgen in Staffel 1 starten wir in eine Neubetrachtung und bringen weiter viel Wissenswertes über das Kanban Universum in diesen Podcast.

Mit Folge 2 "Kanban und die Praxis" vom 08.06.2021 waren wir sehr erfolgreich. Die Folge wird noch immer stark frequentiert, was uns natürlich sehr freut. Gleichzeitig war es für uns wichtig, die gewonnenen Erfahrungen und auch neue Ansätze in eine neue Folge reinzupacken. Daher gibt es mit "Kanban in der Praxis - 2025" nun die Edition für dieses Jahr.

Wie sollte es auch anders sein, beschäftigen wir uns mit dem Kanban Board und klären, wann man wirklich von "Wir machen Kanban" sprechen kann. Gleichzeitig gibt es wie immer Tipps und Tricks über die Nutzung und worauf man achten sollte, wenn man sich dazu entschließt, den evolutionären Weg von Kanban zu starten. Es gibt wirklich sehr viele gute Gründe, dieses zu tun.

Wir freuen uns über Feedback zum Podcast und dieser Folge und noch. mehr über Themenwünsche für künftige Folgen.