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Team Kanban Practitioner (TKP) Workshop | 2nd April 2022

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INNOVATION ROOTS’ Team Kanban Practitioner (TKP) workshop with Prashant J Mavinkare (Accredited Kanban Trainer and Lead Consultant at INNOVATION ROOTS) for April 2022 will be happening online on 2nd April 2022.

Team Kanban Practitioner gives you a hands on training, especially designed to help understand the core concepts of the Kanban Method and how to implement Kanban at a team level. This is a one-day online course serves as an entry-level course for the participants who are enthusiastic to gain knowledge in Kanban.

The participants will understand: how to visualize the flow and understand the benefits of WIP limits to improve the work-flow. It develops understanding on how to run the team level Kanban meetings and focus on the work and allow the team to self-organize. The course is delivered through interactive sessions, team-building exercises, games and simulations that helps participants to develop collaboration skills and utilize the same in their organization. Team members will learn how to be effective within a Team.

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Lateral Communication | Glossary

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Definition: 

Lateral communication is defined as an exchange or sharing information, ideas between people within a community, groups or units of organisation – anyone in one city can speak with anyone in another city. This is not only allowed, but encouraged in Agile ways of working. A couch should help the team remember the value of intensive communication even when distribution makes this harder. Communities communicate and store collective knowledge through lateral communication and is an essential ingredient in making hierarchies work

One significant benefit of lateral communication is that it helps counter the “mum effect”. The mum effect occurs when project participants fails to share bad news with others. Lateral communication is especially important on projects involving team members whose cultures and individual personalities make them less will to share bad news or more intimidated by those in leadership roles. Lateral communication involves not only the movement of information from the upper levels to the lower levels of the organisational hierarchy but also is defined primarily as the quality of information sharing among peers at similar levels.

Further Reading:
Book: SUCCEEDING WITH AGILE Software Development Using Scrum by Mike Cohn