Organizational agility suits our present-day world because of the prevalence of complex work. On the way to achieving agility, we face many hazards. Given a plethora of choices, we can experience analysis paralysis. If we lack trust when working in a complex environment, we can end up experiencing unhealthy conflict. If we fall into a pattern of groupthink, a drift into disaster becomes more likely. We need to find a way to work together and be open to fresh perspectives from non-experts and experts from different fields of work. We need experiments to settle debates or discover the best ideas for now. 

Agile has its origins in the Manifesto for Software Development. What we lack is guidance for potential agilists in other sectors. Using tenets of Kanban and Cynefin® sense-making, Kanplexity offers an optional approach to those in non-software settings.

As Kanplexity is an expansion pack for Kanban, Kanplexity does not describe Kanban. Kanban is already described in Kanban Guide. According to Kanban Guide, Kanban is a strategy to optimize the flow of value through a process (an accessible pull-based system). The Kanban Guide helps people deal with complex problems by optimizing signaling. As long as the approach abides by key tenets of the Kanban Guide, you can use any Kanban or flow approach and still benefit from Kanplexity.