Overview

Kanban is fast becoming the modern way to manage an organization’s delivery of customer value. In today’s always-on environment, you need a clear set of practices that don’t get in the way of your ability to continuously deliver but that provides enough structure to keep everyone aligned and focused. This two-day course will give you an in-depth introduction to improving your team’s effectiveness by applying Kanban flow principles.

In this class, you will learn the basic principles of flow and how to use them to make your team process more efficient, predictable, and effective. With an emphasis on the practical application of concepts, this course includes many hands-on exercises that will lead you through the steps of setting up and operating a Kanban system for continuous value delivery and improvement.

Learning Outcomes

After attending the course, learners will be able to:

1. Explain the basic principles of flow
2. Describe the value of WiP limits
3. Create a visual board to manage your work
4. Capture and interpret key flow metrics and analytics to find improvement opportunities
5. Explain why flow should be focused on value delivery
6. Define, build, operate and continuously improve a Kanban system

Who Should Attend

The Applied Professional Kanban course is for anyone who wants to improve their ability to deliver value and be more effective. Typical attendee roles include business analysts, team members, team leads, agile coaches, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, project managers and product managers. However, as Kanban is applicable to virtually any process, the course will be of value to basically anyone!

Topics

• Kanban theory, strategy, and practices
• Applying Kanban practices
• Workflow design and visualization
• How to improve a Kanban system
• How to get started

Certification Opportunity

While the focus of this course is on the practical application of the concepts learned, after taking the course, you will have an opportunity to validate that you understand core Kanban topics. We will invite you to take an online assessment that evaluates your understanding and provides you with guidance on areas to improve. Those who pass the assessment will receive the industry-recognised PK I Certification to demonstrate their fundamental level of Kanban practitioner knowledge.

About Your Instructors

Darren Aitcheson is a Professional Kanban Trainer with ProKanban.org. He has 30 years' experience in the IT industry, including as a software engineer, team manager, Scrum Master, Agile Coach and Lead Delivery Manager across various companies, organisations and industries, including consultancies, insurance, online reviews and local government.

He first became passionate about Kanban when leading a deployment team that was under constant pressure from other areas of the organisation, but that had previously had no structured way of organising and tracking their workload. Having accidentally discovered Kanban, he immediately recognised the massive benefits that it could bring to the team. After a few months of operating and improving their Kanban system, the team became much more effective and predictable and the quality of their work greatly increased.

His particular passion is applying Kanban to areas outside of software and product development, since that can often have even more impact on an organisation than simply improving only the development teams' processes.

Matt DiBerardino is a former cartographer and software developer with experience helping to build products for over 25 years. He has helped teams become more self-managing and challenged the status quo within organizations for the last 8 years while serving as an Agile Leader in various industries. He was even voted “Most likely to take on aliens…and win” once.

He is currently serving as Ambassador for Serious Scrum and is a Licensed Guide on their “Road to Mastery” program, as well as co-creator of their “Kung-Fu Kanban” training. He is passionate about guiding agile professionals along their journey.

A husband and father of three very active kids, Matt currently resides in Pennsylvania, USA. He enjoys long walks in the woods and down by the water…as that is usually where his golf balls can be found. He is a die-hard Philadelphia sports fan, an avid Ted Lasso watcher, randomly quotes 80s movies, and enjoys collecting football kits (soccer jerseys).