LEANKIT, INC.
AUSTIN, TX

LeanKit supports the implementation of Lean principles, practices, and work methodologies across all business functions, to help organizations create an environment of continuous improvement and innovation to deliver customer value, faster. By visualizing your work as it flows through your process, LeanKit provides a big-picture understanding of the work that helps teams work together more effectively. See how work flows through your team’s process using virtual Kanban boards. LeanKit lets you define and evolve your process without restricting the way you work. Use vertical lanes to visualize each step in your flow and horizontal swimlanes to represent parallel processes on the same board. As your process changes, easily modify your board layout to ensure that it accurately reflects the steps your team follows to get work done. LeanKit provides a go-to place that helps teams stay connected and informed, regardless of whether you’re in the same room or geographically distributed. Reduce the risk of misunderstandings, oversights, and handoff delays with built-in collaboration features that make it easy to ask questions and share status updates. Many teams also display their LeanKit boards on a touchscreen monitor to collaborate on work planning and execution. Business in Sight Powerful reporting and analytics help you identify opportunities for continuous improvement. Measure the effectiveness of your process using insightful metrics such as flow, quality, throughput and lead time. Understand who did what and when with audit trail details. Both team level and enterprise roll-up reporting is available, with the option to combine LeanKit data with other company data to support custom reporting needs. Coordinate the flow of work within and across connected teams to improve the delivery of customer value. LeanKit gives all team members and project stakeholders a shared understanding of the work, providing the right level of visibility and detail to track progress and identify potential problems --even when a project spans multiple teams and boards. Status updates and new information can happen at any time, making it crucial to stay informed and immediately communicate changes to your team. LeanKit can be easily accessed anytime, anywhere from the browser on your mobile device, letting you check status, make updates and add comments while you’re on the go. Any changes made from your mobile device are instantly visible to the entire team. Learn more about LeanKit About LeanKit Status updates are difficult to manage, and teams spend hours in status meetings only to emerge with guesstimates of how much effort a project will take. Meanwhile, management struggles to know who’s doing what work and when. Our founders wanted to find a better way. Before LeanKit, our founders spent several, aggravating years on the hamster wheel of corporate IT. The standard method of team collaboration required archaic tools such as physical whiteboards fed by list-based project management systems (and of course, the ubiquitous spreadsheet). Roadblocks popped up almost daily, consuming valuable time and delaying deliverables. Drawing from the principles of Lean, Agile and Kanban, our founders built LeanKit to revolutionize the way work is managed. As a result, we have witnessed the emergence of a more collaborative, proactive and successful workplace. We are excited to be on the forefront of helping people focus on the work that makes them happy. Dedicated to busting the myth that people are the reason projects fail, our founders created visual management and forecasting software designed to optimize individual and team effectiveness. Using a humanistic, rather than mechanistic, approach to productivity, LeanKit wants to help pave the way for the future of work by creating a visual tool that reinvents the way teams get stuff done. Tim has more than 22 years’ experience in successfully executing senior finance and operating positions with fast-growth companies. Prior to LeanKit, he served as Chief Strategy Officer at Emma, Inc., and CFO of Asurion’s $400 million insurance business. He has also held senior finance and operating roles at two Silicon Valley technology start-ups that went public – @Home Network and Big Band Networks – one of which he helped grow to $1 billion in revenue and Fortune 100 status. Tim began his postgraduate career at HBO. He received his MBA in finance and strategic planning from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Jon has been a leader in Agile transformations for some of the largest healthcare organizations in the U.S., including hospital-giant HCA Healthcare and its subsidiary, HealthTrust Purchasing Group. Jon earned his Global Executive MBA from Georgetown University and ESADE Business School in Barcelona, Spain. Pulling from a wide range of experience, Jon has emerged as a leader and highly sought-after presenter within the Lean and Agile community around the world. Jon not only helps LeanKit customers discover how to increase effectiveness using the LeanKit tool, he also actively seeks to raise awareness of the benefits of Kanban and visual project management. Stephen earned his stripes in Lean/Kanban while leading development teams as a Domain Architect at Healthtrust Purchasing Group and Chief Software Architect at eDoc4u. After earning degrees in Building Science and Information Systems from Auburn University, Stephen has spent his career leading many successful projects with international and outsourced development teams. Stephen shares the vision for "the future of work" and leads both the product development and IT organizations at LeanKit. Daniel is a leader and influencer in the Southeast regional technology community. He has advised Microsoft on iOS technology and regularly speaks at mobile technology conferences. Daniel was a consulting application engineer at HealthTrust Purchasing Group and a software development consultant in Atlanta, Chicago and Kansas City before helping to build LeanKit. Daniel graduated from Lipscomb University with a Bachelor of Arts in Business Management.