Kanban Systems Improvement (KMP II) - Virtual

<p style="margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Poppins; font-size: 13px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Jan 17-20, 2022, Virtual, 1PM-5PM EST daily</span></p><p class="p2" style="margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Poppins; font-size: 13px;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">(TWO-DAY CERTIFIED TRAINING)</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Poppins; font-size: 13px;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">WHO SHOULD ATTEND</span></span></p><p class="p1" style="margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Poppins; font-size: 13px;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">This class is for you if you:</span></p><p class="p1" style="margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Poppins; font-size: 13px;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">• have experience designing a Kanban system and introducing it in your company</span></p><p class="p3" style="margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Poppins; font-size: 13px;"><span class="s2" style="box-sizing: border-box;">• want to keep momentum beyond the initial improvements realized from the Kanban system introduction</span></p><p class="p1" style="margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Poppins; font-size: 13px;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">• want to apply the Kanban method effectively across your company, where many services/Kanban systems connect and interact</span></p><p class="p1" style="margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Poppins; font-size: 13px;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">• are pursuing the Kanban Management Professional (KMP) certification and want to experience an enhanced version of its final training stage, the KMP II class</span></p><p class="p1" style="margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Poppins; font-size: 13px;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Your classmates&nbsp;may include first and second line managers, project managers, product managers, experienced individual contributors and technical experts, scrum masters, business unit leaders, C-level executives, their improvement coaches and consultants.</span></p><p class="p2" style="margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Poppins; font-size: 13px;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">WHAT YOU'LL LEARN</span></span></p><p class="p1" style="margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Poppins; font-size: 13px;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Broad themes:</span></p><ul class="ul1" style="margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Poppins; font-size: 13px;"><li class="li1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Deeper Kanban practices to sustain evolutionary improvements</span></li><li class="li1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Getting to pull at the enterprise scale</span></li><li class="li1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Organizational feedback loops enabled by Kanban cadences</span></li><li class="li1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Several important models for finding and validating improvements – "improvement technologies"</span></li></ul><p class="p1" style="margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Poppins; font-size: 13px;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">In more detail:</span></p><ul class="ul1" style="margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Poppins; font-size: 13px;"><li class="li1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Why evolutionary change may be more appropriate for your company than managed change</span></li><li class="li1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">How to identify and approach emotional and rational sources of resistance to change</span></li><li class="li1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">How proto-Kanban&nbsp;systems aren't "incorrect ways to do Kanban", but rather evolutionary Kanban forms that bring real benefits to companies</span></li><li class="li1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">A relatable enterprise-level Kanban case study</span></li><li class="li1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">How to be deliberate at making important business commitments</span></li><li class="li1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Deeper definitions of the Kanban method and their appropriate interpretations in context</span></li><li class="li1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Seeing your enterprise as a network of services that can improve together</span></li><li class="li1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Non-IT applications of Kanban</span></li><li class="li1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Advanced guidance on STATIK (the systems thinking approach to introducing Kanban)</span></li><li class="li1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Key approaches to scaling Kanban</span></li><li class="li1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Understanding upstream vs. delivery Kanban and the related management roles</span></li><li class="li1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Implementing the Delivery Set of Kanban cadences, particularly the replenishment meeting, multiple-levels of standups and delivery planning</span></li><li class="li1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The lead time metric and its probabilistic nature</span></li><li class="li1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">How to design service delivery reviews (SDR) and Ops Reviews (this begins the Improvement Set of Kanban cadences)</span></li><li class="li1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Identifying, managing, eliminating, mitigating sources of delay</span></li><li class="li1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Managing dependencies between services</span></li><li class="li1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Understanding and managing the sources of variability present in your processes</span></li><li class="li1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Conducting risk reviews (this completes the Improvement Set of Kanban cadences)</span></li><li class="li1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Dealing with bottlenecks in high-variability creative processes</span></li><li class="li1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Applying an economic model to find waste in projects</span></li></ul><p class="p1" style="margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Poppins; font-size: 13px;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The class contains&nbsp;many interactive exercises, customizing them to maximize the pragmatic takeaways.&nbsp;</span></p><p class="p4" style="margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Poppins; font-size: 13px;">&nbsp;</p><p class="p5" style="margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Poppins; font-size: 13px;">&nbsp;</p><p class="p2" style="margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Poppins; font-size: 13px;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">DAILY SCHEDULE</span></span></p><p class="p1" style="margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Poppins; font-size: 13px;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Each day includes four intensive 50-minute sessions. With proper breaks between the "quarters", it takes about four hours to complete each day's agenda.</span></p><p class="p5" style="margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Poppins; font-size: 13px;">&nbsp;</p><p class="p2" style="margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Poppins; font-size: 13px;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">SYLLABUS</span></span></p><p class="p1" style="margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Poppins; font-size: 13px;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Here's the approximate day-to-day agenda of the days&nbsp;of KMP II&nbsp;training.</span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="t1" style="font-size: 13px; width: 1081px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Poppins;" width="535"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="td1" style="box-sizing: border-box;" valign="top"><p class="p1" style="margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Q1</span></p></td><td class="td2" style="box-sizing: border-box;" valign="top"><p class="p1" style="margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Motivation for the Kanban method, proto-Kanban evolutionary forms</span></p></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="td1" style="box-sizing: border-box;" valign="top"><p class="p1" style="margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Q2</span></p></td><td class="td2" style="box-sizing: border-box;" valign="top"><p class="p1" style="margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Multi-service Kanban case study, commitments</span></p></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="td1" style="box-sizing: border-box;" valign="top"><p class="p1" style="margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Q3</span></p></td><td class="td2" style="box-sizing: border-box;" valign="top"><p class="p1" style="margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Interpretation of Kanban practices in-context, seeing services, upstream Kanban</span></p></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="td1" style="box-sizing: border-box;" valign="top"><p class="p1" style="margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Q4</span></p></td><td class="td2" style="box-sizing: border-box;" valign="top"><p class="p1" style="margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Kanban cadences: service delivery set</span></p></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="td1" style="box-sizing: border-box;" valign="top"><p class="p1" style="margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Q5</span></p></td><td class="td2" style="box-sizing: border-box;" valign="top"><p class="p1" style="margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Service delivery reviews (SDR), ops reviews</span></p></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="td1" style="box-sizing: border-box;" valign="top"><p class="p1" style="margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Q6</span></p></td><td class="td2" style="box-sizing: border-box;" valign="top"><p class="p1" style="margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Models for improvement, sources of delay, dependencies between services</span></p></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="td1" style="box-sizing: border-box;" valign="top"><p class="p1" style="margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Q7</span></p></td><td class="td2" style="box-sizing: border-box;" valign="top"><p class="p1" style="margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Managing variability, blocker clustering, risk reviews</span></p></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="td1" style="box-sizing: border-box;" valign="top"><p class="p1" style="margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Q8</span></p></td><td class="td2" style="box-sizing: border-box;" valign="top"><p class="p1" style="margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Bottlenecks, economic costs, evolutionary approach to organizational change and improvement</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="p4" style="margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Poppins; font-size: 13px;">&nbsp;</p><p class="p2" style="margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Poppins; font-size: 13px;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">CERTIFICATION</span></span></p><p class="p1" style="margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Poppins; font-size: 13px;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">This training class is certified by Lean Kanban University as KMP II&nbsp;level training. Participants receive standard LKU certificates of class completion.</span></p><p class="p1" style="margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Poppins; font-size: 13px;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">&nbsp;</span></p><p class="p1" style="margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Poppins; font-size: 13px;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">LKU awards the Kanban Management Professional (KMP) credential to those who successfully complete:</span></p><ul class="ul1" style="margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Poppins; font-size: 13px;"><li class="li3" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="s4" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://balog.info/collections/frontpage/products/kanban-system-design-kmp-i-november-9-10" style="color: rgb(88, 103, 221); box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; transition: color 0.15s ease 0s, background-color 0.15s ease 0s, border-color 0.15s ease 0s, box-shadow 0.15s ease 0s; outline: none !important;">Kanban System Design</a></span><span class="s2" style="box-sizing: border-box;">&nbsp;(KMP I)</span></li><li class="li1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">this class</span></li></ul><p class="p2" style="margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Poppins; font-size: 13px;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">ADVANTAGES</span></span></p><ul class="ul1" style="margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Poppins; font-size: 13px;"><li class="li1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Lean Kanban University's certified training curriculum and teaching methods were created through collaboration of leading experts and validated in hundreds of training classes around the world.</span></li><li class="li1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">You get&nbsp;pragmatic, actionable guidance you can implement in your organization next week - because it doesn't require permission, a large budget or getting others to change.</span></li></ul><p class="p2" style="margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Poppins; font-size: 13px;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">POLICIES</span></span></p><ul class="ul1" style="margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Poppins; font-size: 13px;"><li class="li1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Substitutions of participants are allowed anytime until the start of the class</span></li><li class="li1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Refunds are provided as follows: 35 days or more, 100%; 15 days or more, 50%</span></li><li class="li1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The organizer reserves the right to cancel classes if registrations are insufficient.</span></li></ul>