Kanban System Design

<h3>Kanban Management Professional I&nbsp; (KMP I) Training</h3><div>You will learn and practice how to build and sustain а kanban system. As a result of the course you will be able to effectively explain and apply the basic principles of the Kanban method for efficiently managing projects, services and operations. The training includes sophisticated kanban simulation and custom kanban system design that are adapted to the business needs of the training participants.</div><div>Kanban is a lightweight method based on the Lean principles, focused on a gradual and seamless transformation of organizations into adaptive, customer value-centric, and efficient bodies. Its practices of workflow visualization, rapid bottleneck identification and resolution, management and continuous improvement help effectively adapt to the changing customers’ and business needs, shorten delivery time, optimize resource utilization, balance demand and team capacity, reduce waste in processes, increase product and service quality, and strengthen stakeholder collaboration.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Kanban fosters collaboration and engagement among team members in a natural way. It requires relatively little effort to put in place and is suitable for both small and large teams.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><h3>Benefits of the course</h3><div>At the end of this intensive course participants will be able to explain and apply:</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>The essential concepts of Kanban and their application in the particular context of attendee’s organization;</div><div>Improve team performance through limiting the work in progress (WIP) and reducing multi-tasking;</div><div>&nbsp;•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Visualize current and pending work so that all stakeholders have visibility of the current progress and impediments in the workflow and be able to contribute to their optimization;</div><div>&nbsp;•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Design a kanban system for service and/or project environments;</div><div>&nbsp;•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Define the replenishment and delivery cadences that best fit customers’ needs and team's capacity;</div><div>&nbsp;•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Kanban project/service management experience gained in comprehensive simulation of a Kanban system (IT and non-IT options available);&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Define classes of service and use them to address the variety of customer requests;</div><div>&nbsp;•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Coordinate with other teams, improving resource utilization;</div><div>&nbsp;•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Understand the metrics for workflow management;&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Use of Kanban for team performance improvement.</div><h3>Key topics</h3><div>&nbsp;•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Kanban system for knowledge work;</div><div>&nbsp;•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Kanban method principle and practices;&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Classes of services and establishing service level agreements;</div><div>&nbsp;•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>System Thinking Approach to Implementing Kanban (STATIK);</div><div>&nbsp;•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Design of a kanban system;</div><div>&nbsp;•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Workflow management.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><h3>Ideal for</h3><div>The course is a must for everyone who needs to rationalize project workflow, resources and service management. It is aimed at:</div><div>&nbsp;•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Program managers and portfolio managers;</div><div>&nbsp;•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Product development team members and managers;</div><div>&nbsp;•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Service team members and managers;</div><div>&nbsp;•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Team leaders, scrum masters and product owners;</div><div>&nbsp;•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Software developers and testing professionals;</div><div>&nbsp;•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Process improvement team members and managers.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><h3>What you will get</h3><div>&nbsp;•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>16 hours of high quality training focused on the participants’ needs;</div><div>&nbsp;•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Course materials in electronic format (pdf format);</div><div>&nbsp;•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>One of the following books in electronic format: “Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for your Technology Business” by David J Anderson or “Kanban from the Inside” by Mike Burrows;</div><div>&nbsp;•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Lean-Kanban University (LKU) certificate of course completion;</div><div>&nbsp;•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Membership in the Lean-Kanban University.</div>