Roche Internal - Certified Kanban Foundations Training

<p>Description:<br>This interactive 2-day workshop shows how the Kanban Method helps individuals, teams, and programs &nbsp;to manage and improve the delivery of products or services to customers. You will learn the core concepts and will practice the design &nbsp;of a Kanban system via group exercises, practical examples, and engaging classroom type teaching. You will also learn how to use Kanban to reduce work delivery times, prioritize demand based on team capacity, reduce firefighting and minimize the negative effects of unplanned work. You will also see how within months of using Kanban systems, teams worldwide pulled themselves out of common sinkholes and significantly improved cycle times, quality, trust with customers and team morale.<br>&nbsp;<br>Who Should Attend:<br>This course is for any workers or managers who offer services &nbsp;(like IT, HR, Finance, etc), business analysts, program and project managers.<br>&nbsp;<br>Prerequisites:&nbsp;<br>There are no prerequisites. This course is appropriate for leadership and team members regardless of their current practices and techniques, including but not limited to: Agile practices, COTS Implementations, Waterfall, RUP and IT Operations.&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<br>Reading David Anderson’s Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business book would be helpful. The workshop reflects the theory outlined in this book.<br>&nbsp;<br>Course Topics:<br>Kanban System Design<br>Classes of Service<br>Workflow Mapping<br>Visualization<br>Theory of Constraints<br>Risk Management<br>Kanban Metrics<br>Case Studies<br>Kanban Simulation<br>&nbsp;<br>Learning Objectives:&nbsp;<br>Working in small teams, class attendees will learn the end-to-end process for analyzing and designing a Kanban system and how using this service-delivery approach can help unify teams and promote cross-functional collaboration. They will learn the basic concepts of flow, pull, and collaborative improvement. At the end of the training, participants will understand:<br>How to identify and address bottlenecks<br>How to work with shifting priorities<br>How to deal with interrupt work and multi-tasking<br>The class is presented in the form of intensive, non-technical exercises organized in small groups, games, classroom teaching and discussion.</p>