Agile Project Management with Kanban Training Course

This course is designed for professionals who wish to integrate Agile methodologies (particularly SCRUM) with Lean and Kanban principles to effectively oversee their projects.

It bridges the disciplines of product design and software development.

Kanban Management Professional 1 (KMP1) is an intensive, two-day program that blends instruction, collaborative discussion, and a fully immersive simulation to demonstrate how the Kanban Method enables individuals, teams, and organizations to effectively manage and enhance the delivery of products and services to their customers.

The Kanban Method offers pragmatic, actionable, and evidence-based guidance for successful evolutionary change. It builds upon your current practices, fostering gradual improvement while respecting existing roles, responsibilities, and job titles. By encouraging leadership at all levels, it allows organizations to evolve business processes incrementally, define and utilize relevant metrics to track progress, and significantly mitigate the risks associated with complex change initiatives.

Upon completing this course, you will possess a solid understanding of Kanban principles and general practices, along with the practical skills needed to apply Kanban with confidence within your organization.

What Will You Learn?
- Identify internal and external sources of dissatisfaction
- Analyse demand vs capability
- Model the knowledge discovery process
- Design kanban systems and their visualisations
- Identify and prioritise improvements
- Choose cadences for activities
- Identify classes of service

Who Is This Course For?
This course is designed for anyone involved in product development or knowledge work, including but not limited to:
Programme and delivery managers
Product and project managers
Product developers, software developers and testers
People working in operations or support
Business analysts
High-level management
Anyone interested in implementing Agile in their organisation

JIRA is a web application built on Java that facilitates project and issue tracking to enhance the agility of software development.

In this instructor-led live training, participants will learn how to leverage Jira to implement a Kanban approach to Agile within their organization.

Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to:

• Grasp the principles underlying Agile and Kanban methodologies
• Utilize Jira to create and manage a Kanban project
• Tailor Jira to meet their organization's specific requirements
• Execute basic and advanced searches and analysis
• Generate and review reports

Audience

• Product managers
• Software developers
• Test engineers
• Business analysts

Format of the Course

• A combination of lectures, discussions, exercises, and extensive hands-on practice in a live-lab environment.

Note

• To request customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

Kanban is a method for managing workflow.

This instructor-led live training, available either online or on-site, caters to both novice and experienced participants. The insights and tools you will acquire can be directly integrated into your daily operations to enhance workflow efficiency.

Upon completion of this training, participants will be equipped to:

• Boost the volume of work items completed within a specific timeframe.
• Decrease the duration required to finish work items.
• Enhance the predictability of work delivery (providing more accurate responses to 'When will it be finished?').
• Monitor flow metrics (throughput, lead time, work in progress, and age of work items).
• Apply flow visualization techniques (Cumulative Flow Diagram, Lead Time Histogram, and Work Aging Chart).
• Leverage statistical forecasting techniques, including Monte Carlo simulations and Service Level Agreements.
• Systematically design a Kanban System using the STATIK methodology.
• Comprehend Little's Law, which explains the dynamics of value flow.

This intensive two-day program empowers teams within an Agile Release Train (ART) to thrive in Agile settings by leveraging frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban, and XP. Attendees will gain the skills to operate effectively as Agile teams, manage their backlogs, and successfully plan and deliver iterations. A key focus is placed on understanding the team's position within the ART, fostering collaboration, and driving continuous improvement alongside peer teams.

The training equips teams to actively participate in Program Increments (PI), addressing both Team-level and Program-level events, with special emphasis on PI planning sessions. Upon completion, participants will be prepared to take the certification exam to become a SAFe® Practitioner (SP).

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Apply SAFe principles to scale Lean and Agile practices throughout the organization.

• Understand their team’s role within the Agile Release Train and its contribution to broader objectives.

• Identify other teams within the train, including their roles and interdependencies.

• Plan and execute iterations effectively.

• Demonstrate delivered value and continuously improve processes.

• Participate in and contribute to Program Increment planning.

• Collaborate and integrate work with other teams within the Agile Release Train.

Is your organization finding it difficult to implement Agile practices? Does the transformation feel too rigid and prescriptive? Are your teams feeling overworked and less productive, yet too resistant to a complete overhaul?

Opt for the \u201cAlternative Path to Agility\u201d by adopting an evolutionary and humane Change Management Method that enhances rather than disrupts your existing processes.

The Kanban Method offers pragmatic, actionable, and evidence-based guidance for successful evolutionary change. It begins with your current work, respecting existing roles, responsibilities, and job titles. This approach allows organizations to gradually evolve business processes, define and utilize relevant metrics to track progress, and significantly reduce the risks associated with complex change initiatives.

If your team is overwhelmed, Kanban can help you regain control of your work. It is a technique for dynamically managing your process and identifying bottlenecks.

This training equips you with the skills and knowledge necessary to apply Kanban in your daily work, teaching you how to decide what to work on now, what to postpone, and what to eliminate from your to-do list permanently.

Learning Outcomes

This one-day course teaches the fundamentals of the Kanban Method\u00ae and serves as the entry point to an alternative path to agility.

Attendees should become familiar with the Kanban Method. They should be able to design and implement a basic Kanban board. They should be able to understand work item types and the risks associated with specific work items. They should be familiar with a variety of different Team Kanban board designs and styles and know how to choose a design that is best suited for their context. They should be aware of the training roadmap and the value and benefits to be derived at each step on the \u201calternative path to agility.\u201d

Who Should Attend

This course is designed for any professional who is part of a product development or knowledge work environment and who is interested in discovering how Kanban can help improve working environments. Kanban works across multiple functions of an organization, from senior members of staff looking to adopt Lean Management to members of delivery teams willing to improve their working practices. Previous attendees to our classes have been in roles such as:

• Senior Management Positions (CxO)
• Program and Project Managers
• Product Managers, Product Owners and Business Analysts
• Scrum Team Members
• Scrum Masters, Team Leads and Change Agents
• Product & Software Developers & Testers
• Agile Coaches & Practitioners (Scrum, XP, DSDM, AgilePM, etc.)
• Other roles such as HR and Finance professionals