Certified Kanban Management Professional (KMP II) In Arlington, VA

<h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 2em; color: rgb(34, 34, 31);">Certified Kanban Management Professional (KMP II)</h2><h5 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 1.2em; color: rgb(34, 34, 31);"><span class="orange-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(220, 92, 41);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Perfect the day to day management of your Kanban system</em></span></span></h5><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.7; color: rgb(34, 34, 31); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">The Kanban Method provides pragmatic, actionable, evidence-based guidance for successful evolutionary change. It starts with what you do now and respects current roles, responsibilities and job titles, and encourages acts of leadership at all levels. This class builds upon the foundations established in KMP I or your existing Kanban knowledge.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.7; color: rgb(34, 34, 31); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Kanban Management Professional (KMP II) concentrates on the complex demands of a multi-teamed organization and explores how to maintain momentum beyond initial improvements realized from a successful Kanban implementation.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.7; color: rgb(34, 34, 31); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">In this class, you will explore the rollout and daily operation of a Kanban system.&nbsp;You will consider what type of Kanban initiative is most appropriate for your organization and how to effectively manage and evolve it over time. Learn how to improve agility with asymmetrical commitment and regular cadences for meetings and feedback. The class also covers metrics and effective policies.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.7; color: rgb(34, 34, 31); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">This course also allows the students to claim 14 Project Management Institute (PMI) Professional Development Units (PDUs) which can be applied to Project Management Professional (PMP) and PMI-Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) certifications.</p><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 1.33em; color: rgb(34, 34, 31);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Who Should Attend</span></h4><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.7; color: rgb(34, 34, 31); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">This class is for those who:</p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 28px; color: rgb(34, 34, 31); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: none; padding: 10px 0px 10px 25px;">Have experience applying the Kanban method in their organization</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: none; padding: 10px 0px 10px 25px;">Need to ensure better products and services lead to higher customer satisfaction and business performance</li></ul><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.7; color: rgb(34, 34, 31); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Your classmates might include:</p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 28px; color: rgb(34, 34, 31); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: none; padding: 10px 0px 10px 25px;">Program, Product or Project Managers</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: none; padding: 10px 0px 10px 25px;">People working in operations or support</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: none; padding: 10px 0px 10px 25px;">Business Analysts</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: none; padding: 10px 0px 10px 25px;">Anyone interested in implementing Agile in their organization</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: none; padding: 10px 0px 10px 25px;">Software developers and testers</li></ul><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.7; color: rgb(34, 34, 31); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Previous attendance at a KMP I: Kanban System Design or other Lean Kanban University Foundations-level class is preferred but not required if you are not seeking the KMP credential.</p><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 1.33em; color: rgb(34, 34, 31);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Prerequisites</span></h4><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.7; color: rgb(34, 34, 31); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Attendees are expected to read&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Kanban</em>&nbsp;by David J. Anderson or&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Kanban From the Inside</em>&nbsp;by Mike Burrows prior to the start of class. Attendees will be provided access to Anderson’s&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Kanban</em>&nbsp;eBook upon registration.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.7; color: rgb(34, 34, 31); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">In order to receive the Kanban Management Professional (KMP) designation, students must have previously completed “<a href="https://www.excella.com/certified-kanban-system-design-kmp-i" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; color: rgb(0, 45, 98);">KMP I: Kanban System Design</a>”</p><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 1.33em; color: rgb(34, 34, 31);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">What’s in it for You</span></h4><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 28px; color: rgb(34, 34, 31); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: none; padding: 10px 0px 10px 25px;">A digital copy of&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Kanban&nbsp;</em>by David J. Anderson</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: none; padding: 10px 0px 10px 25px;">Certificate of completion from Lean Kanban University</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: none; padding: 10px 0px 10px 25px;">Lean Kanban University membership and a listing in the LKU Alumni Directory</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: none; padding: 10px 0px 10px 25px;">Access to special invitations, discounts, and content available only to LKU members</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: none; padding: 10px 0px 10px 25px;">Kanban Management Professional (KMP) designation, upon completion of both KMP I and KMP II.</li></ul><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 1.33em; color: rgb(34, 34, 31);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Kanban Management Professional (KMP)</span></h4><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.7; color: rgb(34, 34, 31); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">In order to obtain your Kanban Management Professional (KMP) designation, students must complete</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.7; color: rgb(34, 34, 31); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Kanban System Design (KMP I) + Kanban Management Professional (KMP II)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.7; color: rgb(34, 34, 31); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">In addition to the above benefits, those who are awarded the KMP designation will also receive:</p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 28px; color: rgb(34, 34, 31); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: none; padding: 10px 0px 10px 25px;">Digital KMP status certificate attached to Lean Kanban University website profile</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: none; padding: 10px 0px 10px 25px;">KMP badge on the LKU website</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: none; padding: 10px 0px 10px 25px;">KMP badge file for use in professional websites, business cards and other locations</li></ul><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 1.33em; color: rgb(34, 34, 31);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Curriculum</span></h4><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 28px; color: rgb(34, 34, 31); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: none; padding: 10px 0px 10px 25px;">Building an Information Flow: the 7 Cadences</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: none; padding: 10px 0px 10px 25px;">Dealing with resistance to WIP limits</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: none; padding: 10px 0px 10px 25px;">Understanding asymmetrical commitment</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: none; padding: 10px 0px 10px 25px;">Rollout phases for a Kanban initiative</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: none; padding: 10px 0px 10px 25px;">Developing a service orientation</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: none; padding: 10px 0px 10px 25px;">Kanban Values: a different approach to introducing Kanban</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: none; padding: 10px 0px 10px 25px;">Scrumban case study</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: none; padding: 10px 0px 10px 25px;">Managing evolutionary change</li></ul><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 1.33em; color: rgb(34, 34, 31);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">About Your Trainer</span></h4><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.7; color: rgb(34, 34, 31); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Trent Hone</span>, Managing Consultant at Excella Consulting, is a Lean Kanban University Accredited Kanban Trainer (AKT). He provides consulting services to commercial and federal clients in the Washington, DC area. Trent coaches, mentors, and trains clients in understanding their systems and improving them through Kanban and other Lean and Agile methods. In 2015, he was a finalist for Lean Kanban’s Brickell Key award for excellence in the Kanban community.</p><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 1.33em; color: rgb(34, 34, 31);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Location and Cost</span></h4><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.7; color: rgb(34, 34, 31); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">The registration cost for this two-day course is $1,300.00, inclusive of all taxes and fees. Payment can be made online via credit card or you may request that Excella invoice you if you have an existing billing arrangement with Excella.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.7; color: rgb(34, 34, 31); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Registration is now open.&nbsp; Classes on both days will take place from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at Arlington Tech eXchange (ATX)&nbsp;at 2300 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 610, Arlington, Virginia (located two blocks from the Court House metro station on the Orange and Silver lines). &nbsp;Validated parking is available in three nearby garages. Hot breakfast, lunch, and afternoon snacks will be provided each day.</p><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 1.33em; color: rgb(34, 34, 31);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Cancellation Policy</span></h4><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.7; color: rgb(34, 34, 31); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Students submitting cancellation requests 10 business days or more prior to the start of the course are entitled to a full refund. &nbsp;Students submitting cancellation requests less than 10 business days prior to the start of the course will be issued credit toward a future Excella training course. &nbsp;The credit will be equal to the amount paid for the initial course less any applicable fees. &nbsp;Should the organizer cancel the course for any reason, each registered student will be refunded 100% of the registration cost they&nbsp;paid.</p>