
Kanban Maturity Model
The Kanban Maturity Model is the roadmap for evolving organizational maturity and achieving fit for purpose organizations, products and services. The KMM codifies 12 years of adoption experience and provides a means to assess current organizational maturity and match Kanban practices at an appropriate level.

This courses includes;
- 6 Hrs Live Training
- 23.5 Hrs On-Demand video
- 3 hrs live group sessions
- In-depth self study exercises
- Months access to all materials
- Kanban University Certificate
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Description
Kanban Maturity Model
The Kanban Maturity Model codifies more than 10 years of experience implementing Kanban across diverse industries, in businesses small to extremely large. It plays an important role in creating unity, alignment, a sense of purpose and good governance. Use it to gain a better sense of achievement, provide better products and services, delight your customers, and realize superior business results.
The Kanban Maturity Model maps typical Kanban practices as well as cultural values against 7 organizational maturity levels. This becomes a powerful tool for coaches and consultants leading Kanban initiatives and helping businesses improve their agility. The KMM provides a proven road-map of guidance on recommended practices to meet improvement goals.
Live sessions at the listed times include:
- Live training with David J Anderson and co training with leading experts
- Group breakout activities – Collaborate with fellow peers from around the world and from a variety of industries. Apply the new knowledge you have learned!
- Q&A sessions – Ask David or other trusted Kanban trainers your questions about the material
- Support and guidance – Live sessions make sure students are getting the most out of the student material and are used to guide students through complex themes
Our online courses also include:
- Hours of top-quality training videos of David Anderson
- Downloadable reading materials and resources
- Kanban University Certificate for the Kanban Coaching Professional Certificate.
Learning Objectives
At the end of the course the student will be able to do the following:
- Determine the maturity level of the organization they work with in terms of observable behaviors, management practices and business outcome.
- Define the right approach to lead the organization to the next level.
- Determine and appropriately implement the Kanban practices that will help the organization deliver better on customer expectations and internal objectives.
- Integrate the KMM with other models and methods such as Lean/TPS, CMMI, and Real World Risk Model.
Prerequisites
Prerequisites
The Kanban Management Professional (KMP) credential is required. To achieve the Kanban Coaching Professional (KCP) credential, students must have the Kanban Management Professional (KMP) credential and complete the Kanban Maturity Model (KMM) and Kanban Coaching Practices training. Course participants are encouraged to have read the book Kanban Maturity Model by David J Anderson and Teodora Bozheva.
Main Topics
Main topics of the course
- Organizational maturity levels defined in terms of behavioral patterns, depth of Kanban practices and business outcome
- Kanban maturity model architecture
- Evolving a fit-for-purpose organization
- Cultural values and leadership styles which enable the evolution of organizational agility
- Two failure modes of Kanban implementations, aborted start and false summit plateaus, and means to avoid them.
- Mapping between KMM and other models and methods such as Lean/TPS, Real World Risk Model, and CMMI.
- Advanced Kanban practices for managing services and projects
Who should attend
Who Should Attend?
The course is designated to Kanban coaches, Agile practitioners, transformation initiative leaders, business managers, project and service managers and team leaders who wish to obtain deeper knowledge on the following topics:
- how to develop further their organizational agility
- appropriate practices that allow delivering on customer expectations
- how to achieve predictable economic outcomes and financial robustness
- how to improve the predictability of their teams’ work and meet customer expectations.
- how to define a realistic roadmap for their organizations based on a profound understanding of their current situation, the characteristics of the organizational culture and the defined purpose.
- what leadership focus and actions are necessary to enable successful improvement.
Testimonials

Rodrigo Yoshima
Accredited Kanban Trainer (AKT) | Accredited Kanban Consultant (AKC) | Entrepreneur
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Kaveh Kalantar H
Enterprise Agility and Product Consultant | LearnKanban.cz
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Jörg Müller-Kindt
Founder and CEO at Inselleben.Berlin GmbH; Co-Lead Atlassian Community Berlin-Brandenburg
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