Kanban System Improvement

<p><strong>COURSE OVERVIEW</strong></p><p>The Kanban Systems Improvement course empowers participants with advanced strategies and practical tools to enhance workflow efficiency, foster collaborative team environments, and effectively manage complex projects in dynamic, fast-paced product development settings.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>WHAT DO YOU GET?</strong></p><p>Participants will:</p><ul><li>Understand the basics, motivation, and benefits of the Kanban Method.</li><li>Apply Kanban practices and principles with a “Service Orientation” agenda.</li><li>Explain the core Kanban concept of “Pull,” its effects, and how Pull-Systems can be modelled.</li><li>Apply the STATIK Method to design service-oriented Kanban systems.</li><li>Use insights from STATIK and suitable patterns to design a Kanban board that closely models the workflow, item types, classes of service, and other elements.</li></ul><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>KNOWLEDGE GAINED POST-TRAINING</strong></p><p>After completing the training, participants will be able to:</p><ul><li>Take a pro-active, rational, and well-communicated approach to continuous improvement.</li><li>Achieve higher levels of both internal and external customer satisfaction, sustainably.</li><li>Outline a path to increase organizational maturity, including overcoming resistance to change.</li><li>Implement simple and effective cross-boundary coordination.</li><li>Use proven tools and methods to increase capability, remove delays, reduce variability, and manage bottlenecks.</li><li>Develop an understanding of evolutionary change to avoid the tendency of pushing disruptive, presumptive solutions.</li><li>Effectively scale workflow agility without changing job titles, organizational structures, or causing other disruptions.</li><li>Increase skills and implementation of the six general practices of Kanban.</li></ul><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>TARGET AUDIENCE</strong></p><p>This course is ideal for:</p><ul><li>Aspiring Agile Coaches</li><li>Scrum Masters</li><li>Agile Coaches</li><li>Delivery Managers</li><li>Project Managers</li><li>Agile Project Managers</li><li>Product Owners</li><li>Iteration Managers</li><li>Analysts</li><li>Enterprise Agile Coaches</li></ul><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>PREREQUISITES</strong></p><p>Participants should have completed Kanban System Design (KMP1) certification.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>COURSE MODULE</strong></p><ul><li>Module 1: Kanban as Evolutionary Change Method</li></ul><ul style="list-style-type:circle;"><li>Why Kanban instead of Traditional Change Methods</li><li>Evolutionary Change (A Case Study)</li><li>Kanban Maturity Model (KMM)</li></ul><ul><li>Module 2: Kanban for the Enterprise</li></ul><ul style="list-style-type:circle;"><li>The Kanban Method</li><li>Scaling Out Across the Organization</li><li>Upstream Kanban</li><li>Emerging Roles</li></ul><ul><li>Module 3: Feedback Loops</li></ul><ul style="list-style-type:circle;"><li>Introduction to Feedback Loops</li><li>Maturity Levels – Cadences</li></ul><ul><li>Module 4: Improvement Techniques</li></ul><ul style="list-style-type:circle;"><li>Strategies for Improvement</li><li>Lead Time Distribution</li><li>Removing Delays</li><li>Understanding Variability</li><li>Managing Bottlenecks</li></ul><ul><li>Module 5: Evolutionary Change and Closure</li></ul><ul style="list-style-type:circle;"><li>Fitness Criteria</li><li>Evolutionary Change</li><li>Closing Thoughts</li></ul>