Online Scrum Better With Kanban with Helen Meek
One course, two powerful credentials: Scrum Alliance and Kanban University have teamed up to bring you Scrum Better with Kanban, a course that teaches you how to optimise your Scrum practices by visualising workflow and revealing bottlenecks. Earn both the Scrum Kanban Practitioner credential and the Scrum Better with Kanban microcredential.
Why is this course important?
Improve your Scrum by adding the practices and evolutionary change approach from the Kanban Method.
Scrum Better with Kanban can help you improve your Scrum through the introduction of proven Kanban practices, principles, and the application of evolutionary change management. This course captures the lessons learned from Scrum Teams that successfully evolved their way of working through evolutionary change using the Kanban Method. Our hands-on training will ensure that you walk away with a proven approach to introducing changes that will deliver results for your team and organisation.
The Course Outline
- Learn the 6 general practices of Kanban
- Learn about the Principles
- Discover how to identify and analyse the challenges in and around your Scrum and how to prepare solutions to address these challenges
- Identify and develop solutions to the variability that is delaying or slowing down your work
- Develop and test potential solutions to problems that reflect the principles and practices of the Kanban Method.
This workshop is hands-on, using various exercises alongside instructor-led discussions and presentations.
The Course Detail
- The Kanban Method
- What is the Kanban Method
- Kanban Practices
- Visualise – 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, visible to everyone involved.
- Establish Feedback loops – At the right cadence to provide guidance.
- Improve collaboratively, evolve experimentally – Using the scientific method.
- How we think about our work
- Work Item
- Work Item Type
- Workflow
- Scrum Better with Kanban
- Unplanned work
- Estimation challenges
- Lead time and lead time distributions
- Control/Run charts
- Dependencies
- Discovery
- Dormancy
- Cadences
- Three change management principles
- Using evolutionary change – The problem
- Using evolutionary change – Ideas for solutions
- Understanding Change
Schedule
The course will run from 9:00 to 17:00 UK Time. There will also be regular breaks for tea and coffee and to stretch your legs. There will be lots of interactivity to keep you busy and active.
What do I need to take part in this course?
The most obvious thing you will need is a good WiFi and Internet connection with a nice quiet environment for you to both hear and also interact with your fellow course attendees and trainer! Don't worry about the odd child/dog/cat/partner wondering past or interrupting occasionally, we'll just roll with it :-)
We recommend a laptop or desktop with good sound and microphone. Course participants have struggled on phones and tablets. We will be using Zoom for the video conference functionality with a waiting room and password configured to provide a reasonable level of security. If you can, we recommend installing the Zoom app on your device but the web version should work as a plan B.
Course Outcomes
This course is one of the first of its kind and is dual certified by the Scrum Alliance and the Kanban University. Each attendee will receive a certificate.
Kanban+ Trial: Students receive a one-month full access trial to Kanban+, which includes access to the latest books and artefacts.
Your Trainer
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Helen is an outgoing and driven coach and trainer who is passionate about working with individuals, teams and organisations on their road to agility. Helen has worked with many varied organisations and teams in many different industries and brings this vast wealth of experience and knowledge to her training and coaching. Helen holds licences for Accredited Kanban Trainer, Kanban Coaching Professional, Accredited Kanban Consultant through the Kanban University. Helen also holds the CSAT, Certified Enterprise & Team coach certifications through the Scrum Alliance. Plus is international coaching federation PCC Coach.
Participants