Certified Kanban Foundation Course

Overview

Certified Kanban Foundation 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 the knowledge of Kanban principles and general practices, and skills that will enable you to apply Kanban with confidence in your organisation.

Content:

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
• Kanban system design

To support the classroom teaching this course uses non-technical exercises, simulations, a case study and discussion organised in small groups.

Participants:

Anyone who is involved in product development or knowledge work, from any position would be suitable to attend this course. This includes but is not limited to the following:

• Product/project managers
• Product/software developers and testers
• Business analysts
• High-level management positions.

Additional Details:

Course participants will receive:

• Printed copies of the key Kanban concepts and course exercises
• Electronic copy of the course slides
• Electronic copy of the book "Kanban - Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business" by David J. Anderson
• Lean-Kanban University (LKU) certificate of course completion
• Membership of the Lean-Kanban University (LKU) and access to the members’ only sections of the LKU website