Team Kanban Practitioner

The Kanban Method is a knowledge work management method for teams and organizations that want a humane way of improving their products and services. The Kanban Method teaches organizations how to understand, visualize, and measure systems of work to continually improve and consistently deliver effective results. The Team Kanban Practitioner course is the best first step for getting the work organized by teams and leaders like you. By understanding the core concepts of The Kanban Method and educating individual contributors to be “good Kanban citizens,” you will improve visibility, communication, and collaboration within your team.

Learn the Six General Practices of the Kanban Method:

• Visualize – Show work and its flow.
• Limit Work in Progress – Stop starting, start finishing!
• Manage Flow – Identify and manage what is preventing work from flowing.
• Make Policies Explicit – Have agreed policies that are visible to everyone involved.
• Establish Feedback loops – At the right cadence to provide guidance.
• Improve collaboratively and evolve experimentally – Using the scientific method.

Learn the Three Change Management Principles:

• Start where you are!
• Agree to pursue evolutionary change.
• Acts of leadership at all levels.

What You Will Leave With:

• Understand the basics, motivation, and benefits of the Kanban Method for your team.
• Experience the benefit of WIP limits to improve flow.
• Learn how to run Kanban meetings to focus on the work and allow the team to organize around it.
• Learn how to proceed to the next level with Kanban and apply the first practices in your day-to-day work.
• Become faster and more responsive, with better risk management and governance.
• Understand “Pull” systems and how they help reduce overburdening.
• Learn how to track System Lead Time to build and utilize Lead Time distributions.

• Learn the Principles and Practices of the Kanban Method
• Design and implement a basic Kanban board
• Learn the basics of visualizing different types of work and identifying the risks associated with them
• Experience the benefit of WIP limits to improve flow
• Learn how to run the Kanban meetings to focus on the work and allow the team to organize around it
• Building a higher level of quality through the use of Team Kanban

1. Introduction 00:20 hrs.

• Introduction to the class

2.Introducing the Kanban method 01:00 hrs.

• Introducing the Kanban method
• Kanban Practices
• Workflow, Work Item Type, Work Item

3. Scrum Better with Kanban 03:10 hrs.

• Scrum Better with Kanban
• Unplanned Work
• Estimation Challenges
• Run Chart
• Lead Time
• Dependencies
• Discovery
• Dormancy

4. Understanding Change 02:00 hrs.

• Understanding Change
• Using Evolutionary Change - The Problem
• Using Evolutionary Change - Ideas for Solutions

5. Closure 00:30 hrs.

• Closure
• Resources

Total of Class 07:00 hrs.