Kanban System Design : A System Thinking Approach to Evolutionary Change (KMP I)

<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); font-size: 16px; font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;;">This is a 2-day hand on workshop which covers how Kanban helps teams, leaders, and managers manage IT Operations more effectively.&nbsp;</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); font-size: 16px; font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;;">This course guides you through the fundamentals of Kanban thinking and how you can apply Kanban method in your organization to understand your demand and visualize your workflow, bottlenecks and queues and how to continually evolve your system to improve the flow of value.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); font-size: 16px; font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;;">&nbsp;</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); font-size: 16px; font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;;">You will learn techniques to help you create better reliability and predictability and be able to:</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); font-size: 16px; font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;;">&nbsp;</p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: none; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); font-size: 16px; font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px;">Take an active role in your team’s adoption of Kanban</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px;">Understand the day-to-day operation and maintenance of Kanban systems</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px;">Understand key concepts such as pull &amp; commitment&nbsp;</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px;">Effectively communicate and take an active role in resolving issues affecting flow of work</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px;">Understand what measures are used for, which ones to use to understand how the team is working&nbsp;</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px;">Understand your team’s capability (sources &amp; types of demand, failure &amp; value demand, completion time and rate for each demand type &amp; source)</li></ul><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); font-size: 16px; font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;;">&nbsp;</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); font-size: 16px; font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;;"><strong>Agenda</strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); font-size: 16px; font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;;">The course is designed to help you understand your current condition, model and visualize it as a Kanban system, understand and measure your current system's capability and apply Kanban thinking to continually improve.</p><p>Understand your current condition</p><div>- Map your current system</div><div>- Identify your classes of service and demand</div><div>- Measure your current system capability</div><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;Managing Flow</p><div>- Kanban principles</div><div>- Transitioning to a pull-based system</div><div>- Visualizing specializations, bottlenecks,&nbsp;buffers, and queues</div><div>- Impact of work in process</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div><p>Model your system</p><div>- How the work works - the workflow</div><div>- Type of work, frequency, variable size</div><div>- Capacity allocation and WIP limits</div><div>- Coordination points&nbsp;</div><div>- Cadence - deployment, testing, release</div><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Continuous Improvement</p><div>- Using measures to gain insight</div><div>- Evolutionary change</div><div>- Building a daily improvement cadence</div></div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); font-size: 16px; font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;;"><strong>Who should attend this training?</strong></p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: circle; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); font-family: geomanist_regularregular, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;;">Project Managers / Program Managers</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;;">Agile Coaches and Consultants</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;;">Application leads / Team Leads</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;;">Software developers, Testers, Business analysts</li></ul><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); font-size: 16px; font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;;">&nbsp;</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); font-size: 16px; font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;;">"Everybody looking for ways to better manage projects should attend this 2-day certified Kanban course.“</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); font-size: 16px; font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;;">&nbsp;</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); font-size: 16px; font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;;"><strong>Training&nbsp;Deliverable:</strong></p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: circle; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); font-family: geomanist_regularregular, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;;">Lean-Kanban University (LKU) certificate of course completion</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;;">Electronic copy of the course slides</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;;">Membership of the Lean-Kanban University (LKU) and access to the members’ only sections of the LKU website. This will help you connect with the Kanban community and share your experience and new ideas.</li></ul>