Overview
Kanban Management Professional 1 (KMP1) is a highly interactive two-day course accredited by the Lean Kanban University (LKU). It combines teaching, group discussions and a fully immersive simulation to illustrate how the Kanban Method helps individuals, teams, and organisations to manage and improve the delivery of products and services to their customers.
The Kanban Method provides pragmatic, actionable, evidence-based guidance for successful evolutionary change. It starts with what you do now and pursues evolutionary change while respecting current roles, responsibilities and job titles, and encouraging leadership at all levels. This allows organisations to evolve business processes gradually, define and use relevant metrics to measure progress, and significantly reduce the risks associated with complex change programmes.
You will leave this course with knowledge of the Kanban principles and general practices, and skills that will enable you to apply Kanban with confidence in your organisation.
What Will You Learn?
– Identify internal and external sources of dissatisfaction
– Analyse demand vs capability
– Model the knowledge discovery process
– Design kanban systems and their visualisations
– Identify and prioritise improvements
– Choose cadences for activities
– Identify classes of service
Who Is This Course For?
Anyone who is involved in product development or knowledge work. This includes but is not limited to the following:
Programme and delivery managers
Product and project managers
Product developers, software developers and testers
People working in operations or support
Business analysts
High-level management
Anyone interested in implementing Agile in their organisation
Course Outline
Day 1
- Introduction to Kanban
- Definition of the Kanban Method
- Kanban in action: immersive Kanban simulation
- Using a kanban system: practical lessons from the simulation
Day 2
- Introduction to STATIK: Systems Thinking Approach To Introducing Kanban
- Identifying internal and external motivation for change
- Demand analysis for different types of work
- Mapping the workflow
- Discovering different classes of service
- Choosing system replenishment and delivery frequencies
- Designing a kanban system
To improve your learning experience this course uses non-technical exercises, simulations, a case study and discussions organised in small groups.