Applying Professional Kanban

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.

This is a live virtual course led by April Jefferson & Jennifer Bullock. This course is delivered in 3 sessions of 5 hours each over 3 consecutive days.

Learning Outcomes

After attending the course, learners will be able to:

• Explain the basic principles of flow
• Describe the value of WiP limits
• Create a visual board to manage your work
• Capture and interpret key flow metrics and analytics to find improvement opportunities
• Explain why flow should be focused on value delivery
• Define, build, operate and continuously improve a Kanban system
• Discuss how tooling impacts your implementation

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.

Topics

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

Validated Learning

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. This exclusive assessment is only available to class participants.

Who are your Guides?

April Jefferson is an independent agility coach, trainer, collaboration facilitator, experience crafter, game creator, and speaker. She adds value to the world by guiding the journey to nourish oneself with generative engagement. Enjoying harmonizing mindsets, crafting applied learning experiences, and holding space both in-person and online. April is best known for her curation of spaces that keep people at the center.

Jennifer Bullock is a coach, trainer, and facilitator. She increases team performance and collaboration. Her experience includes helping teams learn Agile, form and build trust and strive toward high performing. Jennifer’s passion is helping others continue to grow their own knowledge as well as increase their impact to the organization.

Cancellation

We accept student substitutions or postponements for classes at any time. Student cancellations must be made via email. We provide refunds for student cancellations as follows:

• Cancellation received more than 21 days prior to the first day of class = 100% refund of course fee.
• Cancellation received more than 10 days prior to the first day of class = 50% refund of course fee
• Cancellation received less than 10 days prior to the first day of class = no refund provided.

Should a postponement or cancellation occur, you'll be notified no later than 10 business days prior to class. All registration payments will be refunded promptly or, if you prefer, applied to a future class.