Kanban Management Professional (KMP II) - Agile alternative path

The Kanban Method provides pragmatic, actionable, evidence-based guidance for successful evolutionary change. The application of the Kanban Method is not restricted to software development, but for any kind of knowledge creation work as an alternative path to agility or as the next development step for mature agile teams. It starts with what you do now and pursues evolutionary change while respecting current roles, responsibilities and job titles, and encouraging leadership at all levels. This allows organizations to evolve business processes gradually, define and use relevant metrics to measure progress, and significantly reduce the risks associated with complex change programs.

Kanban Management Professional (KMP II) is a two-day course accredited by the Kanban University. It systematically builds upon the foundations established in Kanban System Design (KMP I) training and your existing Kanban knowledge with the focus of gaining the understanding necessary for rollout and daily operation of a Kanban system and learning how to manage and evolve it over time. By focusing on the complex demands of a multi-teamed organization, we explore how to keep momentum beyond initial improvements realized from a successful Kanban implementation. We study how better products and services lead to higher customer satisfaction and business performance through sound management and understanding of the seven Kanban cadences, flow optimization, forecasting, prioritization, balancing demand versus capability and scaling.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

At the end of the class the participants will:

• Deepen Kanban knowledge to manage, sustain and scale evolutionary improvements in their organization
• Acquire skills to avoid emotional objections to changes in general and to Kanban WIP limits introduction in particular
• Learn how to forecast single and multiple work items (releases, sprints) and be able to answer the questions like "When will the work be finished?" with accurate predictability instead of "guestimation"

• Enabled by seven Kanban cadences, be able to introduce continuous learning and improvement process by implementing organizational feedback loops
• Understand how to make prioritization, sequencing and scheduling decisions based on economic factors instead of hunches
• Familiarize with Kanban Risk Management approaches, service orientation, asymmetrical commitment and rollout phases for a Kanban initiative

TARGET AUDIENCE

• Those seeking to gain a deeper understanding of the benefits of applying Kanban to their existing workflows
• Project, program, portfolio and delivery managers
• Middle and senior managers
• Development and team managers
• Product managers
• Business analysts
• Scrum product owners

• Scrum masters
• (Senior) delivery team members (developers, testers, QA specialists)
• Change managers and anyone in charge for process improvement and optimization
• Agile Coaches and Practitioners (Scrum, XP, DSDM, AgilePM, etc.)
• Other roles such as HR and Finance professionals

CERTIFICATION INFORMATION

Participants will receive:

• Kanban Management Professional (KMP) certification from the Kanban University
• Kanban University membership and listing in the Kanban University Member Directory
• Printed course materials

• Free electronic version of David J. Anderson’s book “Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business”
• Voucher for free Swift Kanban software trial
• 16 PDUs and 16 SEUs