Kanban for Design and Innovation (KDI)

<h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; font-family: Montserrat, &quot;Odoo Unicode Support Noto&quot;, sans-serif; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.2; color: rgb(9, 17, 36); font-size: 16.9px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">What will you receive:</span></h3><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font class="bg-o-color-4" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(9, 17, 36); padding: 2px 6px 4px;">High-quality training with&nbsp;</font><span style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(221, 221, 221);"><font class="bg-o-color-4" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(9, 17, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 2px 6px 4px;">Accredited Kanban Trainer (AKT)&nbsp;</font></span>Hugo&nbsp;Lourenço</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Online Course materials</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Membership of the Kanban University (KU)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Kanban University (KU) certificate of course completion</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Access to exclusive Agile Thinkers Academy Digital library</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Agile Thinkers Academy Slack community</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Agile Thinkers Academy Certificate of Attendance</li></ul><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12px;">&nbsp;</p><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; font-family: Montserrat, &quot;Odoo Unicode Support Noto&quot;, sans-serif; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.2; color: rgb(9, 17, 36); font-size: 16.9px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">Attendees will receive the Certification&nbsp;Credential:</span></h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(68, 75, 90); font-size: 13px;">High-quality instruction from our Kanban trainer with over 10 years of experience in new ways of working in the public and private sector.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12px;">This course is accredited by Kanban University (KU). Participants will receive a KDI certificate of course completion from Kanban University as well as membership of KU, and an Agile Thinkers Academy certificate of attendance.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">Students who complete both, this course and the Kanban System Design (KSD) course, are eligible for the Kanban Management Professional (KMP) credential.</u></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;">&nbsp;</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">PMI Professional Development Units (PDU)</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12px;">Attendees may be eligible to apply for PDU towards their continuing education requirements with&nbsp;<a href="https://www.pmi.org/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 143, 140); background-color: transparent;">PMI</a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12px;">&nbsp;</p><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; font-family: Montserrat, &quot;Odoo Unicode Support Noto&quot;, sans-serif; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.2; color: rgb(9, 17, 36); font-size: 16.9px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">Is Kanban for Design and Innovation the Right Course for Me?</span></h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">The KDI course will address your pains and problems if:</span></p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">You work as BA/PO and don’t feel KSI covers your part of the system fully.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">You want to learn what’s before the commitment point and how to manage this work.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">The upstream work is iterative or takes very long. You cannot visualize it as a pipeline.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Your backlog is 1,000 items. How should you know what to commit?</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">You ask how much time should you spend in upstream decreasing uncertainty? When can you start working on the requests?</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">You are product-focused and on the path to be a Kanban Management Professional (KMP).</li></ul><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12px;">&nbsp;</p><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; font-family: Montserrat, &quot;Odoo Unicode Support Noto&quot;, sans-serif; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.2; color: rgb(9, 17, 36); font-size: 16.9px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">Objectives</span></h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12px;">The course follows the official KU Certified Kanban syllabus. During the two days you will have ample opportunities to discuss and experience the following topics:</p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Learn how to scale Kanban wider across an enterprise.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Understand options and how this thinking helps to maximize value.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Learn techniques and approaches to actively manage incoming work.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Apply evolutionary change thinking when leading improvement in organizations.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Engage stakeholders from different organizational levels and departments in idea generation and decision making through pragmatic approaches.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Establish an Upstream Kanban system.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Apply Kanban practices upstream in order to establish a balance between the preparation and execution of options.</li></ul><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12px;">&nbsp;</p><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; font-family: Montserrat, &quot;Odoo Unicode Support Noto&quot;, sans-serif; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.2; color: rgb(9, 17, 36); font-size: 16.9px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">Course&nbsp;Audience</span></h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12px;">This course is suited for those who want to acquire solid knowledge about the core of the Kanban method, and want to improve upstream Kanban systems. This includes but is not limited to:</p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Managers and team members who want to get more out of their current Kanban system;</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Product Owners, Business Analysts, anyone in the role of SRM or a Design and Innovation role;</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Project Managers – to further their knowledge and application of upstream systems.</li></ul><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12px;">&nbsp;</p><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; font-family: Montserrat, &quot;Odoo Unicode Support Noto&quot;, sans-serif; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.2; color: rgb(9, 17, 36); font-size: 16.9px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">Prerequisites</span></h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12px;">Attendees are expected to have read “Kanban” by David J Anderson or “Kanban from the Inside” by Mike Burrows.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12px;">Prior attendance in the Kanban System Design class is strongly recommended.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 12px;">&nbsp;</p>