The David J. Anderson School of Management (DJAA) is Anderson's personal training and consulting organization, established in 2008. Based in Bilbao, Spain, it provides training in enterprise agility, business resilience, and organizational maturity. It was the primary vehicle through which Anderson developed and taught the Kanban Method in the years between the corbis-kanban-experiment and the broader institutionalization through kanban-university.
Founding context
DJAA was established in 2008 — the year Anderson left corbis and co-founded Modus Cooperandi with corey-ladas and jim-benson. The timing reflects Anderson's transition from practitioner to teacher-consultant: having developed the Kanban Method empirically at Corbis, he was now systematizing and teaching it. dan-vacanti joined as Anderson's first associate at DJAA, bringing the metrics expertise developed during the Corbis experiment to the training curriculum.
Role in the Kanban ecosystem
DJAA predates kanban-university by four years and served as the primary source of accredited Kanban Method training until the broader accreditation infrastructure was established. After the kanban-university-founding in 2012, DJAA continued as Anderson's personal training organization while Kanban University took on the community-wide accreditation function.
The Bilbao, Spain location reflects Anderson's European operations base and the importance of the European market to the Kanban community's growth — the Lean Kanban Central Europe (LKCE) conference has been one of the most active regional events in the Lean Kanban series.