Kanban Management Professional
DESCRIPTION
The Kanban method is an evolutionary approach to change and change management by starting with what you already do; respecting current roles; responsibilities and job titles; encouraging acts of leadership at all levels, and agreeing to pursue incremental, evolutionary change that evolves business processes using a Kaizen approach that reduces the risks associated with complex change programs. Participants will gain sufficient knowledge about the Kanban Method and related topics
TARGET AUDIENCE
- This course is useful for anyone who wants to be successful using Kanban within their Organization, or anyone who works with teams utilizing Kanban. In terms of roles, the course is suitable for Product, Project and Program Managers, Development Team Members (including but not limited to Architects, Designers, Developers, Testers), Business Analysts and Scrum Product Owners and Scrum Masters who want to enhance their Lean / Agile skillset.
OBJECTIVES
At the end of the course, students will be able to:
- Identify internal and external sources of dissatisfaction
- Analyze demand vs capability
- Model the knowledge discovery process
- Design Kanban systems and their visualizations
- Identify/prioritize improvements
- Choose cadences for activities
- Identify classes of service
- Create a rollout plan, negotiating strategy with stakeholders
1) Kanban Introduction
- What is Kanban?
- Kanban with a big --K-- and little --k--
- Principles of the Kanban Method
- Kanban Core Practices
- When is Kanban Typically Used?
- Demand Analysis
- Handling Large Work Items
- Kanban Cards
- Sizing Work Items
- What is a Value Stream
- Mapping the Knowledge Discovery Process through Value Stream Mapping
- The Relationship between a Kanban Board and the Value Stream
- Setting up and using a Kanban Board
- Different Options for Kanban Boards
- Queues and Buffers
- Queuing Theory -- Little--s Law
- Calculating Lead Time
- Calculating Throughput
- Calculating WIP
- Calculating Release Time
- Why Limit WIP
- Techniques to Limit WIP
- Where to Apply WIP Limits
- Definition of --Done--
- Classes of Service
- Cost of Delay
- Service Level Agreements
- Cumulative Flow Diagrams in Relation to Kanban
- How to Produce a Cumulative Flow Diagram
- How to Measure Lead Time
- How to Measure WIP
- How to Measure Flow
- Optimizing Flow
- How to use the Cumulative Flow Diagram to Identify Problems
- Five Focusing Steps to Remove Bottlenecks
- Interpreting a Control Chart
- Interpreting a lead time distribution chart
- Sources of dissatisfaction
- The impact of variability
- Techniques and strategies for removing variability
- Improvement Kata
- Cadence and Rhythm
- Daily Standups
- Retrospectives
- Operations Review
- Team-Based Realistic Simulation of a Kanban System in Practice
- The Context for Change
- The Steps required to Build a Kanban system
- Apply a Kanban System to your Organization
- Prepare a Roll-Out Plan for your Organization
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