Kanban System Design (KMP1)

The Kanban Method is a management method to improve service delivery, catalyze improvements and evolve a business to be “fit for purpose”. In this class, we learn concepts that are ‘simple yet powerful’ in helping you understand, organize, and manage your work. It will help you understand how Kanban fits within the agile context and reveal how it can harmonize your current ways of working – whether you work in an agile environment or not.

This certified Kanban training is designed as a hands-on workshop that uses a flow simulation game and team activities alongside instructor-led presentation and discussions. You will gain practical insights on how to implement Kanban for new teams – whether they are transitioning straight from Waterfall or another Agile process like Scrum.

This training will help you learn about:

1. Kanban’s Principles – Service Delivery Principles and Change Management Principles
2. Six Core Kanban Practices
3. Understand and interpret powerful Kanban metrics like Flow Efficiency, Lead Time Distribution, Control Chart, Cumulative Flow Diagram (CFD) and Throughput Chart
4. Kanban meetings – Replenishment meeting, Daily Kanban (standup) and Service Delivery Review/Team Retrospective.
5. Guide a team in their adoption of Kanban – using the STATIK approach
6. Embrace a service-delivery mindset and help a team Identify and reduce the bottlenecks that obstruct their development process
7. Key considerations in designing a Kanban board and Cards
8. Work Items Type vs Class of Service
9. How to decide WIP limits?
10. Relationship between Cost of Delay and Business Value
11. Key differences between Scrum and Kanban, and how to combine them (Scrumban)

CLASS SCHEDULE

1. Sat, Oct 8, 2022 - 11:00AM – 7:30PM IST (GMT+5.5)
2. Sun, Oct 9, 2022 - 11:00AM – 7:30PM IST (GMT+5.5)

DELIVERABLES

1. Kanban University (KU) certificate of course completion
2. Electronic copy of the presentation slides
3. Electronic copy of the book “Kanban – Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business” by David J. Anderson
4. Electronic copy of the book “Effective Agile” by Sanjay Kumar
5. Membership of the Kanban University (KU) and access to the members’ only sections of the KU website

TARGET AUDIENCE

Anyone looking to explore and implement Kanban as a solution to improve the flow of work for their teams in a sustainable manner:

1. Agile Coaches
2. Project Managers / Service Delivery Managers
3. Scrum Masters
4. Middle/Senior managers who wish to improve flow of work at higher levels (beyond teams)
5. Project Management Consultants
6. Team leads and team members