Kanban System Design with Tristan Bagnall – Zoom

Why attend this course:

The work you do is complex and your organisation is looking for every advantage they can to, not only survive, but go beyond the competition. Kanban brings benefits to enable this through its values, principles and practices inspired and using lean theory.

This is a hands-on, interactive course with various exercises, simulation, and instructor led presentation and discussions.

This course is for, but not limited to

• Project and Program Managers
• Team leads, Managers
• Development leads
• Business Analysts, Scrum Product Owners, Scrum Masters
• Team Members

Benefits for you and your business:

• increased flow of value
• engaging your people
• establishing and visualising the team and service's capacity for work
• reducing waste

Over the 16 hours of this course we cover, a considerable amount of information, and also provide the space to see Kanban in practice with a simulation.

Through these you will see that the focus of Kanban allows humane evolution of the business process using incremental and iterative practices to create efficiency, manageability and allow you to avoid the risks normally associated with a complex change program.

Outcomes:

You will leave with practical, pragmatic advice based on evidence that you can implement immediately.

• Communicate what Kanban is to the rest of your business.
• Explain why and how Kanban works out of the box.
• Lead teams to create their initial visualisation and design Kanban systems.
• Evolve the team in their day-to-day operations.
• Use measurements and create meaningful metrics to enable work to flow.
• Create meaningful evolving process and practice improvements.
• Use Kanban in real world environments.
• Define and use the full range of techniques.
• Successfully use Kanban for knowledge work: projects, business as usual, programs of work.

This course has been accredited by David J Anderson (creator of the Kanban method) and Kanban University (KU). Each attendee will receive a certificate.

Those attendees taking a Kanban University accredited course will be eligible to become members of the Kanban University. To read about the benefits and learn more, visit the Kanban University website.

An electronic version of course slides, materials and workshop output will also be provided after the course closes.

Students can choose to receive an electronic copy of "Kanban - successful evolutionary change for your technology business" by David Anderson.

Course Schedule:

The course will run 2pm to 6pm CET daily. We will have regular breaks for tea, coffee and to move about.

The set-up you need to attend this course

You will need

• Good Wi-Fi and internet connection
• A quiet environment so you can hear and also talk (this is interactive) with the trainer and your fellow course attendees. Please do not worry about the odd passing interruption, such as child, pet, partner – we understand life is going on around us and will keep rolling!
• A working microphone (headsets are generally better)
• A laptop or desktop. (A reasonably powered one. Phones or Tablets are not recommended). A good-sized external monitor is a bonus.
• Zoom. We recommend using the installed client. At the time of writing the download can be found here.

Course topics:

An Overview of Kanban

• Change: Revolutionary compared to Evolutionary
• The Kanban Method:
  • Values
  • Principles
  • Core Practices
• How deep to implement
• When is best to use Kanban

Visualising in Kanban

• Identifying Work Item Types
• Modelling the Process or workflow
• Analysing Demand
• Kanban Boards
• A team-based simulation with realistic twists to see a Kanban system in action

Kanban Simulation

Concepts for limiting Work in Progress (WIP)

• Little's Law
• Queues and buffers for inputs and outputs
• Dependency and WIP
• Setting WIP Limits

Managing the Flow

• Using Cumulative Flow Diagrams
• Flow measurements
• How WIP influences Lead Time
• Problem identification
• Bottlenecks’ influence on Flow

Having Explicit Process Policies

• Classes of Service
• Cost of Delay / Impact
• Policies for Scheduling
• Service Level Agreements / Expectations

Creating valuable Feedback mechanisms

• Empirical Feedback
• Feedback
  • Within Teams
  • Between Teams
  • From Manager to Team Member

Kaizen / Continuous & Collaborative Improvement

• Improvement Cycles
• Rhythm and Kanban Cadence

Important information

Terms & Conditions

Full refunds are available 15 business or more days before the scheduled event date. Cancellations made 10 or more business days before the event will be credited toward future events, however, no refunds will be issued. Rescheduling course attendance within 10 full business days or less will be subject to a transfer fee of 100€. No refunds or credits will be available for participants that fail to attend all days of the course. Substitutions will be accepted at any time prior to commencement of the course.

In the unlikely event that we need to cancel or postpone the course you will be offered your choice of a discount on a later course or a full refund.

If you would like to pay via invoice, then please contact us on info@agileiberia.com.

GDPR

Certification Consent

Consent for your name and email address to be held by Agile Iberia S.L. in the EU and supplied to the Kanban University in the United States for the purposes of Kanban certification and Kanban University membership.

This consent includes email follow-up with supplementary course materials and communication about the status of your certification from the Kanban University and Agile Iberia SL. Consent can be withdrawn at any time; however, the Kanban University must store your personal data to maintain your certification. If you have any questions, please contact us on info@agileiberia.com.