The AKC Journey - a personal perspective
This is a personal and subjective perspective into the Accredited Kanban Consultant (AKC) community built on the story of how it unraveled for me over several years. The AKC program is driven and supported by Kanban University - https://kanban.university/resources/kanban-development-path/akc-credential/ . I went through most of my Kanban training between 2017 and 2019 and navigated through, course by course, with lofty expectations and a large baggage of misconceptions. The learning experience not only allowed me to accumulate a great amount of knowledge, but - hindsight 20/20 - also transformed the way I think and operate on a daily basis at work. Somewhere on that timeline I realized that experienced Kanban practitioners do not build their main value proposition on contributing more info, adding more practices and layering on more "Agile or Lean stuff". They help with deeper understanding of the concrete problems to solve and a systemic perspective into the concrete day-to-...