Elevating how teams deliver value.
Teams often find themselves at a false summit.
You find yourself working harder than ever, yet the peak of high‑value delivery remains out of reach. It is easy to mistake activity for progress.
I am Ryan Kent, Professional Kanban Trainer, Director of Delivery Optimization, and author of the upcoming book Deliver What Matters When It Matters.
My work focuses on Delivery Optimization through Clarity, Timing, and Flow. I study the patterns that create predictable delivery and share practical ways to strip away noise and reveal the real path upward.
Why K2
K2 stands for Knowledge and Know-how, the two essentials of effective delivery. It is also a metaphor for the climb teams face: steep, unpredictable, and often obscured by false summits.
A false summit occurs when a project looks finished on paper but hasn't actually delivered the intended value. Without the Knowledge to read the terrain and the Know-how to navigate it, teams waste precious oxygen on the wrong peaks. My work helps teams understand the terrain, focus on what matters, and move with purpose toward meaningful outcomes.
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Delivery Consulting & Coaching
I help individuals, product teams and leaders build clarity around outcomes, decision-making, and flow.
My work focuses on practical tools for prioritization, alignment, and delivering what matters when it matters.
I currently apply this work internally and exclusively in my role at Canada Life.
Kanban & Product Training
I work with teams to optimize delivery by improving flow, clarity, and predictability using evidence-based practices.
My focus is on helping teams understand their delivery patterns, reduce friction, and create sustainable, high-value outcomes.
I currently apply this work internally and exclusively in my role at Canada Life.
PKT
Train-the-Trainer
As a Professional Kanban Trainer Enabler, I offer Train-the-Trainer sessions for Professional Kanban Trainers who want to expand their teaching repertoire.
These sessions focus on practical teaching skills, deep Kanban understanding, and the confidence to deliver high-quality PKT experiences.
About Ryan Kent
With more than 20 years of technology and delivery experience as a practioner, leader, Agile coach, and ProKanban.org trainer, Ryan brings grounded clarity to complex delivery environments. He specializes in enabling peak performance through Delivery Optimization, having navigated large‑scale complexity with organizations such as Canada Life and TD Bank.
Clarity over chaos.
Delivery over activity.
Whether leading Delivery Optimization work or mentoring peer Professional Kanban Trainers, Ryan’s focus remains unchanged: keeping teams aligned with outcomes rather than activity. He provides the Knowledge to read the terrain, and the Know-how to master value delivery.
Delivery Optimization Loop™
The Delivery Optimization Loop™ integrates Value Clarity, Timing Intelligence, and Flow Effectiveness into a single operating system for delivery. Each pillar strengthens the others. Together they help teams move beyond activity and build the discipline required to deliver what matters, when it matters.
Value Clarity
Many delivery problems start with unclear value. Value Clarity ensures teams understand what matters, why it matters, and how decisions connect to real outcomes.
When value is unclear, effort fragments, priorities compete, and progress slows. When value is visible, teams align quickly, make confident trade-offs, and focus energy where it produces measurable impact.
Clarity is not a document. It is shared understanding that guides daily decisions.
Timing Intelligence
Speed isn’t the goal. Timing is. Timing Intelligence builds awareness of delivery patterns so teams can forecast responsibly, manage expectations, and commit with confidence.
It replaces guesswork with evidence and turns uncertainty into informed decisions. Teams with strong timing intelligence don’t just move fast. They move at the right moment, with the right scope, for the right reason.
Timing turns motion into advantage.
Flow Effectiveness
Most delivery slowdowns aren’t effort problems. They’re flow problems. Flow Effectiveness improves how work moves through a system by reducing friction, limiting overload, and strengthening the conditions for smooth execution.
It shifts focus from starting work to finishing it. When flow improves, predictability rises, stress drops, and teams deliver consistently without heroics or last-minute scrambles.
Improve flow, and results follow.
Learn more about the full Delivery Optimization Loop™
The complete approach, real examples and practical tools are detailed in Deliver What Matters, When It Matters.