David J. Anderson is the creator of the Kanban Method for knowledge work. Anderson explicitly credits Reinertsen's queueing-theory-applied and wip-constraints as foundational to the Kanban approach. Anderson's 2010 book "Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business" directly applies Reinertsen's principles to software teams.
The intellectual relationship is one of theory to method: Reinertsen provided the theory — why WIP limits and pull systems work, grounded in queueing mathematics — while Anderson provided the method — how to implement them in software and knowledge work teams. Anderson's Kanban Method is arguably the most widely adopted operationalization of Reinertsen's flow-control and wip-constraints ideas, translating the economics of batch-size-reduction and pull systems into concrete team practices. This is documented in anderson-kanban-book, which explicitly cites Reinertsen's theoretical foundations.