Kanban System Design (KMP 1)

<p><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Participants will learn how to design a Kanban system and initiate change&nbsp;</b></span><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">with Kanban. They will learn the basic concepts of flow, pull, and&nbsp;</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">collaborative improvement. At the end of the training, participants will&nbsp;</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">understand:</b></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">* How to identify and address bottlenecks</p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">* How to work with shifting priorities</span></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">* How to deal with interrupt work and multi-tasking</span></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">* How to deal with important but not time-critical work</span></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">* How to avoid having work pile up in one place (or time) while there is a&nbsp;</span>lack of work in another place</p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">* How to create flow in the work, the information to perform the work, and&nbsp;</span>the teams that do the work</p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">The content of this course covers the following topics, presented in the&nbsp;</b></span><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">form of interactive exercises organized in small groups, plus games,&nbsp;</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">classroom teaching and discussion.</b></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">* Controlling Work in Progress (from push to pull)</span></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">* Visualizing work (designing the card wall)</span></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">* Measuring and managing flow (control charts, flow diagrams)</span></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">* Making policies explicit (classes of service)</span></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">* Managing change and collaborative improvement</span></p>