Kanban System Improvement

COURSE OVERVIEW

The Kanban Systems Improvement course empowers participants with advanced strategies and practical tools to enhance workflow efficiency, foster collaborative team environments, and effectively manage complex projects in dynamic, fast-paced product development settings.

WHAT DO YOU GET?

Participants will:

• Understand the basics, motivation, and benefits of the Kanban Method.
• Apply Kanban practices and principles with a “Service Orientation” agenda.
• Explain the core Kanban concept of “Pull,” its effects, and how Pull-Systems can be modelled.
• Apply the STATIK Method to design service-oriented Kanban systems.
• Use insights from STATIK and suitable patterns to design a Kanban board that closely models the workflow, item types, classes of service, and other elements.

KNOWLEDGE GAINED POST-TRAINING

After completing the training, participants will be able to:

• Take a pro-active, rational, and well-communicated approach to continuous improvement.
• Achieve higher levels of both internal and external customer satisfaction, sustainably.
• Outline a path to increase organizational maturity, including overcoming resistance to change.
• Implement simple and effective cross-boundary coordination.
• Use proven tools and methods to increase capability, remove delays, reduce variability, and manage bottlenecks.
• Develop an understanding of evolutionary change to avoid the tendency of pushing disruptive, presumptive solutions.
• Effectively scale workflow agility without changing job titles, organizational structures, or causing other disruptions.
• Increase skills and implementation of the six general practices of Kanban.

TARGET AUDIENCE

This course is ideal for:

• Aspiring Agile Coaches
• Scrum Masters
• Agile Coaches
• Delivery Managers
• Project Managers
• Agile Project Managers
• Product Owners
• Iteration Managers
• Analysts
• Enterprise Agile Coaches

PREREQUISITES

Participants should have completed Kanban System Design (KMP1) certification.

COURSE MODULE

• Module 1: Kanban as Evolutionary Change Method

• Why Kanban instead of Traditional Change Methods
• Evolutionary Change (A Case Study)
• Kanban Maturity Model (KMM)

• Module 2: Kanban for the Enterprise

• The Kanban Method
• Scaling Out Across the Organization
• Upstream Kanban
• Emerging Roles

• Module 3: Feedback Loops

• Introduction to Feedback Loops
• Maturity Levels – Cadences

• Module 4: Improvement Techniques

• Strategies for Improvement
• Lead Time Distribution
• Removing Delays
• Understanding Variability
• Managing Bottlenecks

• Module 5: Evolutionary Change and Closure

• Fitness Criteria
• Evolutionary Change
• Closing Thoughts