Kanban System Design® (KSD)

<div><p>The <strong>Kanban System Design^® (KSD)</strong> course gives you the knowledge and tools to <em>improve knowledge work productivity</em>&nbsp;and provides the foundations to be an effective Kanban professional.&nbsp; This class is a virtual (online) learning experience.</p><div class="wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-9"><div class="vc_column-inner"><div class="wpb_wrapper"><div class="wpb_text_column wpb_content_element "><div class="wpb_wrapper"><p>This 2-day highly interactive course and simulation, (formerly known as the Kanban Management Professional 1 or KMP I - Part 1 of 2), is the first of two courses towards the coveted <strong>Kanban Management Professional^® (KMP)</strong> credential.&nbsp; This course will help you if you are managing or working with teams doing projects, operations, development, support, or research. You will learn how to design an effective system for managing work, improve transparency, identify bottlenecks, visualize workflow, improve communication, and enhance collaboration.</p><p>Learn how to introduce and implement the Kanban Method by using a progressive learning approach and a highly interactive simulation with focused collaborative hands-on exercises.&nbsp; By completing both Kanban System Design^® (KSD) and Kanban Systems Improvement^® (KSI), participants will achieve the Kanban Management Professional (KMP) designation with Kanban University^®</p><div><u>Some noteworthy things about our classes</u>:</div><ul style="list-style-type: disc;"><li>They consist of highly interactive simulations and exercises.</li><li>They are guaranteed to run as soon as five people have registered.</li><li>We have posted over <a href="https://berteig.com/testimonials/" target="_blank">3000 testimonials</a> (not just ratings) from real people that have attended.</li><li>We offer a <a href="https://berteig.com/kanban-training/team-kanban-practitioner/#money-back-policy" target="_blank">100% money-back guarantee</a>.</li></ul><div>&nbsp;</div><div><a href="https://berteig.com/kanban-training/kanban-system-design/" target="_blank">Learn More About our Kanban System Design® (KSD)</a></div><div><a href="https://berteig.com/kanban-training/kanban-system-design/#upcoming-events" target="_blank">Find Other Upcoming KSD Classes</a></div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div><h3>Attendees Will Receive</h3></div></div></div></div></div></div><ul style="list-style-type: disc;"><li style="padding-right: 1em;">16 PDUs | 16 SEUs</li><li style="padding-right: 1em;">Internationally Recognized Kanban University<span style="font-size: 10.5px; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">®</span> KSD certificate.</li><li style="padding-right: 1em;">Profile listing on the Kanban University alumni page with credentials.</li><li style="padding-right: 1em;">Free ebooks, newsletter subscriptions, and more.</li><li style="padding-right: 1em;">Delivery facilitated by an Accredited Kanban Trainer (AKT) and Registered Education Provider (REP) with Kanban University<span style="font-size: 10.5px; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">®</span> &amp; other certification agencies.</li></ul><p>&nbsp;</p><h3>Your Accredited Kanban Trainer</h3><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="5" rowspan="5" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><img alt="Jerry's' Portrait" src="https://www.berteig.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Jerry-Doucett.jpg" style="max-width: 100%; border-radius: 0px 25px 25px; border-width: 1px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(153, 153, 153) !important; border-image: initial !important; float: left;"></td><td colspan="5" rowspan="5" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><p><strong>Jerry Doucett, AKT, KMP, REP, CSP</strong></p><p><span style="text-align: justify;">For over 30 years Jerry has proudly served on numerous enterprise transformations by focusing support on four key success pillars: cultivating in-house expertise on Lean and Agile practices, defining enterprise transformation strategies, building and delivering coaching and training programs, and developing effective relationships between business and IT.&nbsp; <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jerrydoucett/" target="_blank">Take a moment to read about Jerry's extensive experience on his public LinkedIn Profile</a>.</span></p><p><span style="text-align: justify;">Over the past decade Jerry has delivered hundreds of public and private training and learning events to over 4500 people in over a dozen countries.&nbsp; <a href="https://berteig.com/testimonials/" target="_blank">Visit our corporate site to read over 3000 actual testimonials and their associated ratings of our classes</a>.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>&nbsp;</p><h3>Target Audience for KSD</h3><p><span style="color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-family: Oxygen, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">This class is for those who take responsibility for improving delivery of products and services to customers of their professional service businesses.&nbsp; </span><span style="color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-family: Oxygen, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">This course is strongly recommended for<strong> Team Leads and HR Managers</strong> who are responsible for creating a high performance work environment, <strong>Managers</strong> who want to transform their organizations, and <strong>Project Managers</strong> who need to know how to work with Agile and Scrum teams.</span></p><ul style="list-style-type: disc;"><li>First and Second Line Managers.</li><li>Project Managers.</li><li>Product Managers.</li><li>Experienced Individual Contributors and Technical Experts.</li><li>Scrum Masters.</li><li>Business Unit Leaders.</li><li>C-level Executives and,</li><li>Their Improvement Coaches and Consultants.</li><li>If you have been using Agile techniques (including Scrum) for years, this course is a valuable supplement that will help you identify and tackle some of the most common challenges.</li><li>If you are considering using Kanban, this is a great opportunity to learn about the best circumstances to use Kanban and the common challenges you may face in introducing Kanban to your team and organization.</li></ul><p>&nbsp;</p><h3>Learning Outcomes</h3><p style="margin-bottom: 20px; text-align: left; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Participants will learn how to design a Kanban system, introduce Kanban to their team and organization, and initiate change with Kanban. They will learn the fundamental concepts of flow, pull, and collaborative improvement.</p><p>By successfully completing the Kanban Management Professional I course, you will be able to:</p><ul style="list-style-type: disc;"><li>Design a Kanban system and initiate change with Kanban.</li><li>Understand the basic concepts of flow, pull, and collaborative improvement.</li><li>Work with shifting priorities.</li><li>Deal with interrupt work and multi-tasking.</li><li>Focus on what matters most, and manage priorities including time-sensitive or fixed-date deliverables.</li><li>Avoid having work pile up in one place (or time) while there is a lack of work in another place.</li><li>Design a system to better manage unpredictable and cyclical requests for service and delivery</li><li>Create flow in the work, the information to perform the work, and the teams that do the work.</li><li>Boost your Agile team performance.</li><li>Improve the lives of your team members.</li></ul><p>&nbsp;</p><h3>Agenda</h3><ul style="list-style-type: disc;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: left;">See Kanban in action.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: left;">Key elements of a Kanban system, such as commitment points, work item types, classes of service, explicit policies, cadences.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: left;">Kanban system mechanics, such as pull, replenishment, delivery.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: left;">Key Kanban system indicators, such as lead time and cumulative-flow diagram.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: left;">Learn STATIK: the systems thinking&nbsp;approach&nbsp;to introducing Kanban.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: left;">Review a Kanban case study.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: left;">How to create context&nbsp;for change.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: left;">Demand analysis.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: left;">Workflow&nbsp;visualization.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: left;">Discovering and designing classes of service.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: left;">Replenishment and delivery cadences.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: left;">Kanban system visualization.</li></ul><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: left;">&nbsp;</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: left;">Note that the entire class consists largely of interactive group exercises and games.</p><h2>&nbsp;</h2><h3>Pre-Requisites</h3><p style="margin-bottom: 20px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Oxygen, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(96, 96, 96); text-align: left;">Attendees are expected to have read "Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business" by David J Anderson, or "Kanban from the Inside" by Mike Burrows.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 20px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Oxygen, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(96, 96, 96); text-align: left;">Attendees are also expected to have read the eBook '<a href="https://resources.kanban.university/guide/" target="_blank">Essential Kanban Condensed</a>' by David J Anderson and Andy Carmichael, which is free and publicly available on the Kanban University website.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 20px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Oxygen, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(96, 96, 96); text-align: left;">Prior attendance at a <a href="https://www.berteig.com/public-training/team-kanban-practitioner/#upcoming-tkp">Team Kanban Practitioner</a> (TKP) 1-day course is recommended but not required.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><h3>Additional Benefits</h3><p><span style="color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; text-align: justify;">All attendees will also receive a free electronic copy of</span><span style="font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, &quot;Fira Sans&quot;, Ubuntu, Oxygen, &quot;Oxygen Sans&quot;, Cantarell, &quot;Droid Sans&quot;, &quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;, &quot;Lucida Grande&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap; text-align: center;"> the 'Agile Advice' ebook by Mishkin Berteig.</span></p>