Co-Trainer(s)

Vancouver
British Columbia
Canada

Kanban System Design

2 Days Training
December 09,2024 to December 10,2024
09:00 am to 05:00 pm America/Vancouver

English

Course Description

The Kanban Method is a management method to improve service delivery, catalyze improvements and evolve a business to be “fit for purpose”. In this class, we will cover simple concepts that are powerful in helping you organize, understand and manage your work.

You will learn by understanding its principles and how to put them into practice to address common issues faced by organizations. This includes delays, disruptions caused by unplanned activities, slowness to react, overburden, and poor quality. It covers how Kanban fits in different contexts, such as product development and service delivery. You will learn why workflow slows down or stops, and how to deal with overburden, bottlenecks and queues.

You will learn how to design a Kanban system and initiate evolutionary change with Kanban. You will learn the basic concepts of flow, pull, and collaborative improvement. You will also learn how to become faster and more responsive through better risk management and governance. You will gain practical insights on how to understand your systems of work so that you can implement or improve Kanban within your organization.

What You Will Leave With

  • Understand the basics, motivation, and benefits of The Kanban Method.
  • Understand the key principles and practices of Kanban.
  • Be able to visualize their process and identify issues and bottlenecks.
  • Experience Kanban flow in a simulation of a Kanban system.
  • Learn how to run the Kanban meetings to focus on the work and allow the team to organize around it.
  • Build and design a Kanban system using the STATIK (Systems Thinking Approach to Implementing Kanban).
  • Become faster and more responsive, with better risk management and governance.
  • Understand “Pull” systems and how they help reduce overburdening.
  • Learn how to utilize key metrics such as Lead Time, Run Charts, and Cumulative Flow Diagrams to make continuous improvements.

Is Kanban System Design the right course for me?

This course is suited for those who want to acquire solid knowledge about the core of the Kanban method and want to design or improve Kanban systems for their work

This particularly includes but is not limited to:

  • Project and Program Managers
  • Team leads, Managers
  • Development leads
  • Business Analysts, Scrum Product Owners, Scrum Masters
  • Team Members

What participants will get

Participants get training certified by Kanban">https://kanban.university/">Kanban University which includes:

  1. Course notes and all mural activities
  2. Digital copy of David J Anderson’s book “Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business”
  3. Certificate of Completion of Kanban University’s Certified Kanban Training (Kanban System Design)
  4. Practical knowledge you can implement in your organization immediately
  5. Trainers who are highly experienced in implementing the Kanban Method in numerous organizations and situations.

What others had to say

“This course gave me so many ideas that I can start on right away to improve the flow of work in my organization – and lots that I’ll be implementing over time. I feel fully equipped and excited to get started right away.”

“The instructor’s delivery style and group facilitation skills were excellent and fostered engagement and understanding.”

“Sunny is a very engaging instructor and provides lots of great examples.”

“Worth the time and money!”