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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The Team Kanban Practitioner 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.
Scrum Better with Kanban can help you 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. 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.
The Kanban System Design course provides the foundational background of The Kanban Method and then guides the students through the process of understanding their systems so they can design an appropriate Kanban system to meet their needs. By understanding the core concepts of The Kanban Method, you will be able to design a Kanban system to improve visibility, communication, and collaboration within your team.
You have competed the KSD course. What's next?
Become a Kanban Management Professional and increase your earning potential, drive success in your organization, and set yourself apart by attaining the most globally recognized Kanban credential.
The KMP Credential is granted upon the completion of two classes. Kanban System Design, which teaches the basics of Kanban, flow, and how to design a Kanban system. Then either the Kanban Systems Improvement course, which teaches how to evolve, improve, and scale a Kanban system, or the Kanban for Design and Innovation course, which teaches how to establish an upstream Kanban system, may be chosen to attain the KMP Credential.
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KMP - Service Delivery Manager
Kanban Systems Improvement 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 in the Kanban for Systems Improvement (KSI) course. Manage and optimize your Kanban systems using metrics and evolutionary change.
KMP - Product Delivery Manager
Kanban for Design and Innovation Course
Improve your upstream Kanban and the multitude of options available to you through the Kanban for Design and Innovation (KDI) course. The KDI 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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Kanban Coaching Professional Credential
The Kanban Coaching Professional Credential is a globally recognized advanced-level credential.
KCPs have a full and comprehensive mastery of the Kanban Maturity Model and Kanban Coaching curriculum and the skills to lead and evolve an organization to higher levels of maturity. The public will be able to clearly recognize a KCP as an expert in their field and trust that they hold a specific set of effective coaching tools that lead to better business outcomes.
Kanban Maturity Model Course
Evolve and Manage Your Transformation
You understand how the Kanban Method works for systems and you understand how to improve them using evolutionary change. The next step on your journey is to understand the multitude of options available to you through the Kanban Maturity Model.
The Model, based on 10 years of experience, helps you to frame your change using an evolutionary change model canvas. This reflects not only the potential pathways to evolving towards desired outcomes, but also how to do it with respect to culture and a necessary need to experiment along the way.
Kanban Coaching Course
Coach Using the Evolutionary Change Approach
You’ve learned about 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.
Learn to refine and iterate your Evolutionary Change Canvas to your organizational culture. Understand and practice how to overcome change plateaus while avoiding the all-too-common aspects of overreaching when considering organizational change. Practice the six escalating steps to increase the motivation for change.
Accredited Kanban Trainers (AKT) 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 Accredited Kanban Consultant (AKC) credential is our highest credential. AKCs are accredited by Kanban University to possess a full and complete understanding of the Kanban Method. AKCs are key drivers of change, helping organizations around the world harness the full power of the Kanban Method.
Elevate your career and join the ranks of elite consultants who are leading the way in improving business outcomes. The next step on your AKC journey is to attend the The Change Leadership Masterclass.
The Change Leadership Masterclass offers a comprehensive curriculum that goes beyond traditional change management approaches. Participants 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.
The Enterprise Scale Kanban course teaches your 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.
An Enterprise Kanban Management Professional (EKMP) understands what is necessary to take an organization to maturity level 4 and to implement a network of interconnected dependent Kanban systems that might support an entire business unit of 300 to 1200 people.
A Kanban Product Professional is an expert in managing upstream, discovery, and innovation activities leveraging the power of the Kanban Method, Enterprise Services Planning, and the Fit-for-Purpose Framework to manage risk, select the most valuable work, and schedule it at the optimal time. KPPs maximize the flow of value by feeding delivery Kanban systems with the best possible mix of work, enable improved customer satisfaction and better economic outcomes by segmenting markets by customer purpose, building empathy, and optimizing features and functionality to manage the complex fitness landscape of their market and product domain.
The Kanban Leadership Professional credential is designed for those holding operational management and leadership positions in companies pursuing a business agility transformation. KLPs drive evolutionary change and are able to build trust and organizational resilience (and maturity) for their organizations. This credential provides a comprehensive approach to understanding and enhancing leadership maturity, driving evolutionary change, and implementing effective feedback mechanisms within an organization.
Legal Kanban Practitioners are able to apply Kanban in legal teams and organizations. They offer a new way to design, manage, and deliver legal services focusing on understanding and satisfying the business and client needs, while enabling a human approach to change that minimizes or avoids resistance.
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Legal Kanban Practitioner (LKP) course and learn to create agile legal teams and organizations that are resilient and capable of reinventing themselves to provide sustainable, competitive, and modern legal services, it is necessary to promote a new culture, new management structures, and new leadership models based on fundamental values.
Customer Experience Professionals hold significant new insights into how to optimize the effectiveness of businesses, 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.
Attend the Fit for Purpose (F4P) course to 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.
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!
