Overview
Are you struggling with implementing Agile in your organization? Is the change too prescriptive? Are your teams overburdened and less productive but still too resistant for a revolutionary change?
Choose the “Alternative Path to Agility” and implement an evolutionary and humane Change Management Method which doesn’t change your process but improves it.
The Kanban Method provides pragmatic, actionable, evidence-based guidance for successful evolutionary change. It starts with what you do now and respects current roles, responsibilities and job titles. This allows organizations to evolve business processes gradually, define and use relevant metrics to measure progress, and significantly reduce the risk associated with complex change programs.
If your team is overwhelmed, Kanban can help you to get your work under control. Kanban is a new technique for dynamically managing your process and revealing bottlenecks.
This training provides the skills and knowledge you need to apply Kanban in your work and learn how to determine what to work on now, what to leave until later and what to take off the to-do list forever.
Learning Outcomes
This 1-day course teaches the basics of the Kanban Method® and serves as the entry level and starting point to an alternative path to agility.
Attendees should become familiar with the Kanban Method. They should be able to design and implement a basic Kanban board. They should be able to understand work item types and the risks associated with specific work items. They should be familiar with a variety of different Team Kanban board designs and styles and know how to choose a design that is best suited for their context. They should be aware of the training roadmap and the value and benefits to be derived at each step on the “alternative path to agility.”
Who Should Attend
This course is designed for any professional who is part of a product development or knowledge work environment and who is interested in discovering how Kanban can help improve working environments. Kanban works across multiple functions of an organization, from senior members of staff looking to adopt Lean Management to members of delivery teams willing to improve their working practices. Previous attendees to our classes have been in roles such as:
- Senior Management Positions (CxO)
- Program and Project Managers
- Product Managers, Product Owners and Business Analysts
- Scrum Team Members
- Scrum Masters, Team Leads and Change Agents
- Product & Software Developers & Testers
- Agile Coaches & Practitioners (Scrum, XP, DSDM, AgilePM, etc.)
- Other roles such as HR and Finance professionals
Requirements
Prior to the training, it is recommended to read one of these two books:
- Kanban by David J. Anderson
- Kanban from the Inside by Mike Burrows
Course Outline
The course follows the official LKU Certified Team Kanban Practitioner syllabus produced by David J Anderson, Mike Burrows and other leading Lean Kanban experts. During the course, you will have ample opportunities to discuss and experience the following topics:
- The Sustainability Agenda to Address Overburdening
- Principles & Practices of the Kanban Method
- Meanings of Kanban
- Basic Kanban Concepts
- Understanding and Operating Kanban Systems
- Visual Boards – Visualizing work for transparency & predictability
- Cycle-time Metrics
- Work in Progress Limits (WIP)
- Delivery Rate & Little’s Law
- Overview of 7 Kanban Cadences
- Implementing Feedback Loops
- Daily Standup Meeting
- Replenishment Meeting (Commitment and Replenishment)
- Lean Kanban interactive simulation (FeatureBan)
- Different Kanban Board Designs
- WIP Limits
- Different Work Types and associated Risk
- Design-a-board Exercise
- Service delivery workflow Kanban
- Service-oriented Agenda
- Proto Kanban versus full Kanban System
- Benefits of extending Kanban up/down workflow
- Overview of STATIK