It does not require participants to have any prior training. However, informed professionals and experts with surface-level knowledge will be considered most suitable for the course.
• Project Managers • Business analysts
• Program Managers • Scrum Masters
• Application leads • Agile Coaches and Consultants
• Team leads • Scrum product owners
• Software developers • Other roles such as HR and Finance professionals
• Testers
• Deepen Kanban knowledge to manage, sustain and scale evolutionary improvements in their organization.
• Take a pro -active, rational and well-communicated approach to continuous improvement.
• Develop an understanding of evolutionary change and avoid the tendency for pushing disruptive, presumptive solutions.
• Acquire skills to avoid emotional objections to changes in general, and to Kanban WIP limits introduction in particular.
• Study a successful real life example of sequence of evolutionary changes in an organization from Scrum via Proto-Kanban to full Lean Kanban pull system implementation.
• Be able to build and interpret the Lead Time Histogram, and make conscious data driven decisions based on actual information.
• Learn how to forecast single and multiple work items (releases, sprints) and be able to answer the questions like "When will the work be finished?" with accurate predictability instead of "guestimation".
• Discover how to achieve higher levels of both internal and external customer satisfaction in a sustainable way.
• Grasp approaches how to effectively scale workflow Agility without changing job titles, organization structures, or causing other disruptions.
• Enabled by Kanban cadences, be able to introduce continuous learning and improvement process by implementing organizational feedback loops.
• Understand the prioritization, sequencing, and scheduling decision making principles based on economic factors instead of hunches.
• Comprehend the similarities and differences between the concepts of bottleneck capacity constrained and non instant availability resources.
• Use proven tools, methods, and optimal strategies to increase capability, remove delays, reduce variability and manage bottlenecks.
• Familiarize with Kanban Risk Management approaches, service orientation, asymmetrical commitment, and rollout phases for a Kanban initiative.
