Leading successful Kanban implementations 2-Day Foundation Workshop

<p><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:verdana,geneva"><strong>Who should attend?</strong></span></p><p><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:verdana,geneva">Team members, managers and leaders who would like to create a more effective system for delivery of software products that creates better reliability, predictability and outcomes built with continuous evolutionary improvement.&nbsp;</span></p><p><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:verdana,geneva"><strong>&nbsp;</strong></span></p><p><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:verdana,geneva"><strong>Course overview</strong></span></p><p><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:verdana,geneva">This is a 2-day hands on course which covers how Kanban helps teams, leaders and managers deliver better software products more effectively.</span></p><p><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:verdana,geneva">This course guides you through the fundamentals of Kanban thinking and how you can apply Kanban method in your organisation to understand your demand and visualise your workflow, bottlenecks and queues and how to continually evolve your system to improve the flow of value.</span></p><p><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:verdana,geneva">You will learn techniques to help you create better reliability and predictability.</span></p><p><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:verdana,geneva"><strong>&nbsp;</strong></span></p><p><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:verdana,geneva"><strong>Lean Kanban University</strong></span></p><p><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:verdana,geneva">This course has been accredited by the Lean Kanban University (LKU).</span></p><p><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:verdana,geneva">On successful completion, students taking an&nbsp;<a href="http://leankanbanuniversity.com/" style="color: rgb(15, 144, 186);"><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">LKU</span></a>&nbsp;accredited course will receive certificate of completion, membership of Lean Kanban University (<a href="http://leankanbanuniversity.com/" style="color: rgb(15, 144, 186);"><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">LKU</span></a>) Listing in the LKU Member Directory. Please visit&nbsp;<a href="http://leankanbanuniversity.com/" style="color: rgb(15, 144, 186);"><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">LKU</span></a>&nbsp;to find out more about LKU and benefits of membership.</span></p><p><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:verdana,geneva"><strong>&nbsp;</strong></span></p><p><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:verdana,geneva"><strong>On successful completion you will be able to</strong></span></p><ul><li><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:verdana,geneva; font-size:small">Understand your demand sources and types</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:verdana,geneva; font-size:small">Measure your system's capability in meeting your purpose</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:verdana,geneva; font-size:small">Measure the impact of failure demand&nbsp;</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:verdana,geneva; font-size:small">Visualise your current system</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:verdana,geneva; font-size:small">Define explicit policies</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:verdana,geneva; font-size:small">Identify areas for improvement</span></li></ul><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:verdana,geneva"><strong>Agenda</strong></span></p><p><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:verdana,geneva">The course is designed to help you understand your current condition, model and visualise it as a Kanban system, understand and measure your current system's capability and apply Kanban thinking to continually improve.</span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:verdana,geneva"><strong>Understand you current condition</strong></span></p><ul><li><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:verdana,geneva; font-size:small">Map your current system</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:verdana,geneva; font-size:small">Identify your classes of service and demand</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:verdana,geneva; font-size:small">Measure your current system capability</span></li></ul><p><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:verdana,geneva"><strong>Managing Flow</strong></span></p><ul><li><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:verdana,geneva; font-size:small">Kanban principles</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:verdana,geneva; font-size:small">Transitioning to a pull based system</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:verdana,geneva; font-size:small">Visualising buffers and queues</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:verdana,geneva; font-size:small">Impact of work in process</span></li></ul><p><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:verdana,geneva"><strong>Model your system</strong></span></p><ul><li><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:verdana,geneva; font-size:small">How the work works - the workflow</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:verdana,geneva; font-size:small">Classes of service</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:verdana,geneva; font-size:small">Capacity allocation and WIP limits</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:verdana,geneva; font-size:small">Coordination points&nbsp;</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:verdana,geneva; font-size:small">Cadence - deployment, testing, release</span></li></ul><p><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:verdana,geneva"><strong>Continuous Improvement</strong></span></p><ul><li><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:verdana,geneva; font-size:small">Using measures to gain insight</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:verdana,geneva; font-size:small">Evolutionary change</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:verdana,geneva; font-size:small">Building a daily improvement cadence</span></li></ul><p style="margin-left:36pt">&nbsp;</p><p><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:verdana,geneva"><strong>About the trainers</strong></span></p><p><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:verdana,geneva"><em>Siamak Shams Ph.D.</em></span></p><p><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:verdana,geneva">Siamak has been a full-time Agile Practitioner, trainer and coach Since 2002 delivering successful Agile transformation and operation in some of the largest organisations in the UK and Europe.</span></p><p><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:verdana,geneva">Siamak has been a member of the professional Agile community and particularly Scrum / XP / Kanban, with certification from Scrum Alliance as CSP, CSM and Scrum.org as CSM I and Accredited Kanban Trainer from LKU.</span></p><p><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:verdana,geneva">Siamak is also a member of Academic Agile Community with a Ph.D. in IT the “Operationalization of Agile Software Development” as his research topic.</span></p><p><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:verdana,geneva">Siamak’s background is in Web and desktop software applications development experience in most of the high level languages and Web scripts.</span></p><p><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:verdana,geneva">&nbsp;</span></p><p><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:verdana,geneva"><em>Nader Talai</em></span></p><p><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:verdana,geneva">Nader has been a full-time Agile Practitioner, trainer and coach Since 2002 delivering successful Agile transformation and operation in some of the largest organisations in the UK.</span></p><p><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:verdana,geneva">Nader has been a member of the professional Agile community and particularly Scrum / XP / Kanban, with certification from Scrum Alliance as CSM and Kanban Coaching Professional and Accredited Kanban Trainer from LKU.</span></p><p><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:verdana,geneva">Nader is an active member of the London Agile community.&nbsp;Nader’s background is in creating effective software product development teams and organisations.</span></p><p><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">&nbsp;</span></p><p><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:verdana,geneva"><strong><u>Quotes from previous attendees:</u></strong></span></p><p><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:verdana,geneva">“I will now rollout the Kanban principles across the organization.”&nbsp;</span></p><p><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:verdana,geneva">“Can this improve our current process – the answer is yes!”</span></p><p><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:verdana,geneva">“Excellent workshop, interactive and hands-on.”</span></p><p><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:verdana,geneva">&nbsp;</span></p><p><strong>Cancellation &amp; Refund Policy</strong></p><p><span style="color:rgb(81, 78, 75)">Value Glide reserves the right to postpone or cancel this event if there are insufficient registrations or if presenters are unable to attend. In these circumstances, you will be notified no later than 7 days prior to the event with full refund.&nbsp; If circumstances require, presenters may be substituted for alternative qualified presenters with equivalent experience.&nbsp;</span><span style="color:rgb(81, 78, 75)">Value Glide will not be responsible for any incurred costs.</span></p><p><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:verdana,geneva">We offer a 100% refund if you cancel your place more than 15 working days before the event.&nbsp;For cancelations with less than 15 working days before the event we do not offer a refund, but you will be able to transfer your place.</span></p>