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Kanban University & Scrum Alliance Partner on SBK Dual Credential

July 21, 2025 by Kanban University

Kanban University and Scrum Alliance Partner to Offer Dual-Credential Course: "Scrum Better with Kanban"

Kanban University, the world’s foremost authority on the Kanban Method, is partnering with Scrum Alliance®, a global leader in agile education and certification, to deliver a first-of-its-kind learning experience: Scrum Better with Kanban. This course offers professionals a structured way to optimize their Scrum practice by incorporating the clarity, focus, and flow of Kanban while earning two respected credentials from two of the world’s top iterative delivery and flow-based work organizations.

This partnership brings together two schools of thought that have shaped how modern teams work. Scrum Alliance and Kanban University have long served complementary roles in the agile ecosystem. By joining forces, they’re signaling a pivotal shift, one that acknowledges the evolving needs of agile practitioners and the value of blended approaches.

“Visualizing work, whether it be tasks, processes, or broader initiatives, is essential to helping teams stay aligned and deliver value,” said Scrum Alliance Chief Executive Officer, Tristan Boutros. “This partnership with Kanban University helps professionals bring clarity to their work, improve flow, and adapt their priorities with greater confidence. By combining the spirit of the Kanban Method with the cadence of scrum, we aim to support all product and service teams as they navigate complexity in today’s ever-changing economy, with greater ease and effectiveness.“

This course is designed to meet the growing demand for flexible and pragmatic approaches to agility in the workplace. Participants will learn how to:

  • Visualize work and make bottlenecks easier to identify and address
  • Limit Work in Progress to improve value delivery
  • Create effective feedback loops that enhance team alignment
  • Apply evidence-based improvement practices to achieve meaningful change

“This partnership reflects what we see every day: teams want practical ways to deliver better and faster while creating real, lasting change,” said Kanban University President, Stephanie Dziad. “By bringing together the strengths of scrum and kanban, we’re giving professionals the clarity and confidence to make meaningful improvements in how their teams work.“

With an emphasis on practical application over theoretical instruction, learners leave the course with tools and insights they can use immediately, whether they’re scrum masters, team leads, product managers, or part of a broader agile initiative.

Scrum Better with Kanban Course details:

Format: Live online and led by an experienced, dual-credentialed trainers
Duration: 8 hours
Prerequisites: None

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The combined strength of Scrum Alliance and Kanban University sends a clear message: Agile practices are built to evolve in response to real-world challenges and your team’s unique needs. Scrum Better with Kanban represents the more adaptive, integrated approaches that reflect the way teams truly work today.

To learn more or register, visit the Scrum Alliance website or search for courses now.

About Scrum Alliance
As the first not-for-profit focused on agile education and professional credentialing, Scrum Alliance continues to advance its position of Agile for Anyone™ by equipping professionals and their organizations with the education, skills, and community needed to succeed in today’s ever-evolving workplaces.

About Kanban University
As the global leader of the Kanban Method, Kanban University provides high-quality professional education and credentials to improve how organizations deliver value. Through its worldwide community, Kanban University empowers professionals to achieve greater visibility, continuous improvement, and flow while leading evolutionary change in their teams and scale across multiple connected systems to the whole organization.

Learn more about the Scrum Better with Kanban course and dual-credential

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Filed Under: Kanban University, KU Education, KU News, Scrum Tagged With: Kanban, Scrum, Scrum Better With Kanban, Scrum Kanban Practitioner

How You Can Scrum Better With Kanban

May 22, 2024 by Rosie

Press Play and Learn How YOU Can Scrum Better with Kanban

Are you using Scrum and still running into walls around challenges like dependencies, delays, and resistance to changing and improving the way the team works?

Scrum Better with Kanban can help!

The Scrum Better with Kanban course will give you practical solutions to these problems and more, helping you improve the way Scrum works for you in your organization and team.

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Filed Under: KU News, Scrum Tagged With: Kanban, SBK, Scrum, Scrum Better With Kanban, Scrum Kanban Practitioner, YouTube

How Does Your Scrum Flow?

March 26, 2024 by Kanban University

Scrum Better With Kanban Blog Series

Joey Spooner, Vice President for Community Development and Product Management at Kanban University, speaks about Introducing Evolutionary Change at AgileAmericas 2023.

Finding the best path forward when attempting to change can sometimes be challenging for Scrum teams. What if there was an easy way to identify the low hanging fruit for improvement that your fellow Developers would want to achieve?

Press play to watch Joey share some initial approaches to identify the challenges and define solutions as you get started with managed evolutionary change in your Scrum team.

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Filed Under: Scrum Tagged With: dependencies, Dependency Management

The Evolutionary Nature of Learning in Agile Environments 

February 15, 2024 by Rosie

Scrum Better With Kanban Blog Series

In the dynamic world of agile environments, learning is not a linear journey; it’s an evolutionary process. This path is marked by trial and error, constant adaptation, and evolution, particularly when using the Kanban Method. However, this evolutionary approach to learning and change is not exclusive to Kanban and can be effectively integrated by Scrum Teams as well. Let’s explore how this works.

Learning Through Trial and Error

Agile environments thrive on a learning approach that’s indirect and exploratory. Teams often face a series of experiences, each offering unique challenges and opportunities for growth. This process, a fundamental aspect of agile methodologies, demands patience, resilience, and an eagerness to experiment, where each setback paves the way to deeper understanding and improved practices.

Managed Evolutionary Change in the Kanban Method

The Kanban Method fosters this learning through ‘managed evolutionary change’, involving three critical stages: identifying stressors, reflecting and hypothesizing, and leadership in experimentation. This structured approach supports learning and adaptation, making it a key strategy in agile environments.

Applying Managed Evolutionary Change in Scrum

Scrum Teams can also harness the power of managed evolutionary change, particularly during retrospectives or daily Scrum meetings. By adopting managed evolutionary change, Scrum teams can develop and test experiments, leading to continuous improvement and learning.

Here are some ways Scrum teams might implement this:

  1. Integrating Unplanned Work: Allowing for unplanned tasks while completing planned Sprint work. This can help in understanding the team’s flexibility and adaptability. You can learn more about how to address unplanned work in our blog post “Unplanned Work – The Hidden Sprint Surprise.”
  2. Evolving the Definition of Done: Developing new agreements in their Definition of Done and trialing them before formal adoption. This iterative testing ensures that changes are practical and beneficial.
  3. Setting Work in Progress Limits: Establishing limits for one or more columns in their workflow to assess the impact on focus and quality. This can lead to more efficient workflows and higher quality results.

Leveraging Investment in Teams

Whether using Kanban or Scrum, the focus remains on leveraging the existing strengths of teams and personnel. Incremental changes, built on current capabilities, ensure that development is sustainable and aligned with organizational culture.

Further Learning and Training

For those looking to deepen their understanding of these agile methodologies, resources and training are available. Kanban University offers extensive information and courses, beneficial for Scrum practitioners. This includes our new Scrum Better with Kanban (SBK) course.

  • Learn more at Kanban University.
  • Explore formal training opportunities at Kanban Development Path.

Conclusion

The evolutionary nature of learning in agile environments requires a mindset open to experimentation and adaptation. Embracing managed evolutionary change allows teams to address challenges effectively while fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement.

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Filed Under: Scrum Tagged With: Agile, Evolutionary Change, Scrum, Scrum Better With Kanban

Get More From Your Scrum in 2024 With Kanban

December 20, 2023 by Rosie

Are you a Scrum practitioner, team lead, Scrum Master, Agile coach, or a manager who wants to understand an evolutionary approach to improving your Scrum? Explore how successful Scrum teams have evolved their workflows using the Kanban Method’s practices, principles, and application of evolutionary change management.

Our NEW Scrum Better with Kanban (SBK) course is the perfect place to get started and get more from your Scrum in 2024!

Our Accredited Kanban Trainers are offering classes virtually and around the world in six different languages. All participants will receive the Scrum Kanban Practitioner (SKP) credential from Kanban University.

Don’t miss this opportunity to turbocharge your Scrum! Sign up for SBK now and keep scrolling to explore more Kanban and Scrum resources.

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How Does Your Scrum Flow?

Finding the best path forward when attempting to change can sometimes be challenging for Scrum teams. What if there was an easy way to identify the low hanging fruit for improvement that your fellow Developers would want to achieve?

READ MORE ABOUT HOW YOUR SCRUM FLOWS

Managing Dependencies

It’s not uncommon for teams to have missing capabilities which then create dependencies on other service providers. A team doing great work may need some extra capability that they don’t already have on their team. In this post, we explore how the Kanban Method can address this kind of challenge.

READ MORE ABOUT MANAGING DEPENDENCIES

Unplanned Work – The Hidden Sprint Surprise

Often, you’re in the middle of a Sprint and here comes the recurring surprise urgent request or demand that breaks either your Sprint Goal or delays the work your Team planned to deliver until the next Sprint. Unplanned work is a common problem we see many Scrum Teams face. In this blog, we explain how the Kanban Method provides a solution.

READ MORE ABOUT UNPLANNED WORK

Filed Under: KU News, Scrum Tagged With: SBK, Scrum, Scrum Better With Kanban, Scrum Kanban Practitioner, SKP

Improve Your Scrum With Certified Kanban Training

October 11, 2023 by Rosie

Improve Your Scrum with Proven Kanban Practices, Principles, and Evolutionary Change Management

Jeff Sutherland, the co-founder of Scrum stated that; “58% of Scrum implementations are late, over budget, with unhappy customers.”

Don’t let it happen to you! 
Improve your Scrum with Certified Kanban training from Kanban University.

Our NEW Scrum Better with Kanban (SBK) course captures the lessons learned from Scrum teams that successfully evolved their way of working by using the evolutionary change found in 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 organization.

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Is Scrum Better with Kanban the right course for you? 

If you are a Scrum practitioner, team lead, Scrum Master, Agile coach, or a manager who wants to understand an evolutionary approach to improving your Scrum using the Kanban practices, the Scrum Better with Kanban course is the perfect place to get started!

Drop us a message at KU@kanban.university and we’ll help you figure out the best route on the Kanban University development path.

Filed Under: KU News, Scrum Tagged With: Scrum

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