Overview
This Kanban training workshop guides participants on Kanban implementation and bootstrapping a Kanban system in their organizations. The course focuses on how Kanban is a cultural change initiative and what that shift implies, how it can be applied to a software development workflow and how it differs from other development methods.
What You'll Learn
- Kanban origins, evolution, and benefits
- Kanban concepts, principles, and terminology
- Visualization of Work
- Limiting Work-In-Process
- Analyzing the Flow of Work
- Optimizing your Kanban system
- Continuous improvement culture
- Common misunderstandings and pitfalls of Kanban
- Experiments and analysis to improve team performance
- Kanban Metrics and Management Reporting
Curriculum
- Housekeeping
- Course Objectives
- Introductions
- Instructor Bio
- Agenda
- Kanban Parking Lot
- What is Lean
- What is Agile
- What is Kanban
- Why Kanban
- How Kanban differs from other methodologies
- Difference from Scrum
- Kanban Team and Roles
- Kanban’s 5 Core Properties
- Kanban Emergent Behaviors
- General Concepts at high level
- Work Item Types
- Card Walls
- Workflow
- Queues and Buffers
- Cadences
- Work-in-Progress
- Bottlenecks
- Issues and Blocked Items
- Metrics Overview
- Tracking Work-in-Process
- Cumulative Flow Diagram
- Lead Time
- Trends
- Throughput
- Minimal Marketable Release
- Two-Tiered Card Walls
- Swim Lanes
- Three types of Improvement Opportunities
- Estimations
- Class of Service
- Service Level Agreements
- Policies
- Issue Management and Escalation Policies
- Kaizen Culture
- Kaizen Mindset
- Agile Leadership
- Servant Leader
- Kotter’s Model
- Review Key Takeaways
- Review Kanban objectives board
- Survey Information
- Building a Kanban board
- Documenting a work flow
- Change a workflow into a Kanban system
- Kanban Simulation
Who should attend
The course is highly recommended for –
- Business analysts
- Technical analysts
- Project managers
- Software engineers
- Software programmers
- Development managers
- Product managers
- Product analysts
- Testers
- QA engineers
- Documentation specialists
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this course. Completing the Foundations of Agile course prior to taking up this course would be beneficial.
