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Kanban University Courses

Whether you’re new to Kanban or looking to deepen your expertise, we offer the perfect courses that provide pragmatic, actionable, evidence-based guidance. Kanban delivers real solutions that significantly improve business outcomes and Kanban University certifications that boost your career!

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Team Kanban Practitioner
The TKP course is the best first step for getting the work organized by teams and leaders like you. By understanding the core concepts of the Kanban Method and educating individual contributors to be “good Kanban citizens,” you will improve visibility, communication, and collaboration within your team to continually improve and deliver effective results.
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Scrum Better with Kanban
Improve your Scrum through the introduction of proven Kanban practices, principles, and application of evolutionary change management. This course captures the lessons learned from Scrum teams that successfully evolved their way of working by using evolutionary change found in the Kanban Method.
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Flow Manager – NEW course
Take your organization from Maturity Level 1 to Level 2 on the Kanban Maturity Model (KMM). Learn to improve the flow of work, to deliver products/services quicker and more reliably. Improving FLOW has a greater impact on the performance of an organization and enables it to scale-up beyond the team level.
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Kanban System Design
This course teaches the foundation of the Kanban Method and then guides you through the process of understanding your systems so you can design an appropriate Kanban system to meet your needs. By understanding the core concepts you will be able to design your own Kanban system to improve visibility, communication, and collaboration within your team.
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Kanban Systems Improvement
You have learned how to design a single system in the KSD course. In any workflow system there will be sources of delay, variability, and bottlenecks. Learn to proactively discover these challenges and apply techniques to improve or smooth the flow of work and scale to multiple connected systems. Manage and optimize your Kanban systems using metrics and evolutionary change.
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Kanban for Design and Innovation
Improve your upstream Kanban and the multitude of options available to you. Learn how to handle the incoming stream of ideas and requests, and maximize your delivery value. This course focuses on the tools and techniques to successfully build and maintain end-to-end Kanban systems with a special focus on creating and improving the upstream design and innovation function.
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Enterprise Scale Kanban
This course is for Kanban Management Professionals and teaches you how to create executive dashboard for multiple business units allowing you to roll up successful results from a workforce of up to tens of thousands of people. Take service-oriented thinking from the Kanban Method and KMP training to the next level by learning the practices needed for effective dependency management.
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Kanban Maturity Model
You understand how the Kanban Method works for systems and you understand how to improve them using evolutionary change. Now learn about the transformative power of the Kanban Maturity Model (KMM). This course equips you with a comprehensive understanding of the KMM, its significance in fostering unity, alignment, and purpose within organizations, and its pivotal role in achieving superior business outcomes.
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Kanban Coaching
You’ve learned the KMM and how to build an Evolutionary Change Canvas. Your next step is to learn how to utilize advanced concepts of change management and sociological concepts to address the underlying resistance common in organizational cultures. Understand and practice how to overcome change plateaus while avoiding the all-too-common aspects of overreaching when considering organizational change.
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Become an accredited Kanban expert...

Accredited Kanban Trainers (AKTs) are accredited and licensed by Kanban University to effectively and knowledgeably deliver Kanban University certified training courses.
The Kanban Train the Trainer (TTT) course validates candidates’ Kanban knowledge, trainer skills, and teaches candidates how to teach the Kanban University course curriculum in a classroom setting. This course does not teach Kanban fundamentals. Candidates must be Kanban Management Professionals and have verified real-world Kanban implementation experience. 
The TTT is an assessment course. Your trainers will measure your ability to present the Kanban University foundation course curriculum effectively and knowledgeably. During the class, they will provide guidance, clarification, and feedback to help you on your training journey.
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The Accredited Kanban Consultant (AKC) credential is our highest credential. AKCs are accredited by Kanban University to possess full and complete mastery of the Kanban Method. AKCs are key drivers of change, helping organizations around the world harness the full power of the Kanban Method.
Attending the Change Leadership Masterclass is is the last step on the educational path to becoming an AKC. The Masterclass offers a comprehensive curriculum that goes beyond traditional change management approaches.
In this course with David J Anderson, you will learn advanced leadership strategies, crisis management techniques, and sociological insights to drive successful change initiatives. Topics include leadership adaptation, cultural change, crisis coping, overcoming resistance, tribal frameworks, human behavior, social cohesion, trust-building, and evolutionary change.
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Go even further with the power of Kanban...

Kanban Product Professional 1 & 2
Learn to leverage the power of the Kanban Method, Enterprise Services Planning, and the Fit-for-Purpose Framework to maximize the flow of value through your delivery systems. Learn to feed delivery Kanban systems with the optimal mix of work, enabling improved customer satisfaction and better economic outcomes, by segmenting markets by customer purpose, building empathy, and optimizing features and functionality – helping you navigate and manage the complex fitness landscape of your product and market domains.
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Kanban Leadership Professional 1 & 2
These courses are designed for those holding operational management and leadership positions in companies pursuing a business agility transformation. Learn to drive evolutionary change and build trust and organizational resilience (and maturity) in your organizations. These courses provide a comprehensive approach to understanding and enhancing leadership maturity, driving evolutionary change, and implementing effective feedback mechanisms within an organization.
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STATIK Workshop
The Systems Thinking Approach to Introducing Kanban provides you with tangible results – things YOU can apply the next workday, which is one of the most valued outcomes of Kanban University’s curriculum. During this one-day interactive course, you will learn what the Kanban Method is, its principles and practices, and how to build your Kanban proficiency.
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Fit for Purpose 
In the Fit for Purpose (F4P) course you will gain significant new insights into how to optimize the effectiveness of your business, to produce fit-for-purpose products and services that delight your customers, making them loyal to your brand and increasing your share, revenues and margins. Become better at understanding customers in order to design and deliver fit for purpose solutions.
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Legal Kanban Practitioner
This course equips legal professionals to build agile, resilient teams, and organizations capable of continuously adapting to deliver modern, sustainable, and competitive legal services. This course introduces a fresh approach to designing, managing, and delivering legal services that aligns business and client needs while fostering a human-centered change process.
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Enterprise Services Planning (ESP)
Aligning strategy with our market and capability; Fitness Criteria; Modern KPIs; Anti-Fragility. Delivery of strategic goals depends on fast coordination across your enterprise. Combining visibility, focus, and data-driven decisions, ESP is a complete management system that takes business agility to another level. Executive, Project Manager, and Expert tracks offered.
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Kanban Works!

Kanban is the truly effective path to agility. Kanban’s practices, principles, and the application of evolutionary change management are just the skills that today’s professionals need!