The Kanban Method is a highly versatile approach for achieving deep Business Impact. Join and explore the Alternative Path to Agility.

This is a practitioner deep dive on real life stories and some of most current advanced Kanban concepts. Adding selected practices from Lean Change makes this event a highly valuable asset for changemakers, working with teams and organizations on their delivery and adaptation capabilities in competitive environments.  Participants learn to design and improve Kanban systems and get most out of it by mastering not only advanced Kanban techniques, but also by running successful change management.

You profit from our extensive experience in the field and a training offering certified by Lean Kanban University (LKU) – homebase of the Kanban Method. So you can rest assured to get most out of the Kanban initiatives for your own context, succeeding with an Alternative Path to Agility.

Takeaways

• Understand the full background of the Kanban Method and how to apply advanced concepts for effective Kanban Systems
• Explore ways to greatly improve Kanban Systems you have now and most effective ways to manage them day to day
• Address the product and service strategy of your organization, the demand of various stakeholder and related business risk and opportunities
• Find better balance for customer demand, business risk and align the capabilities of your organization, in order to drastically improve your competitive position
• Move your systems further via excellent practices for feedback loops and run an evolutionary and experimental approach for change and organizational development, fit for creative knowledge workers in the 21st century.
• Take with you the experience of interactive games, exercises and simulations, maximizing your learning journey together with highly experienced trainers and facilitators

Course Content

• Adaptive Organizations: Background and motivation for the Kanban Method. Concept of “Sense & Respond” on organizational level. Balancing service exploration and service delivery exploitation.
• The Kanban Method: Focused wrap-up as baseline to go deep. Anatomy of Kanban Systems. Controlling Work in Progress, Visual Management. Evolving from Proto-Kanban. Little’s Law and Lead Time Distribution. Cost of Delay and Service Classes. The STATIK approach
• Improving delivery capabilities (“doing things right or better”): Service Delivery Agility, Understanding Lead Time and Variation, Implementing Information Flow via the 7 cadences, Service Delivery Review and Risk Review, Continuous Improvement (e.g. via Kanban cadences, Toyota Kata, A3)
• Improving portfolio and planning (“considering the right things with impact”): Product Life-Cycle and Portfolio Kanban, Upstream Kanban and Real Options, Qualitative Assessment of Cost of Delay, Multi-dimensional Risk Profiling, Fitness Metrics
• Driving Lean and Evolutionary Change: Applying the Lean Change Cycle, Dealing with Change Resistance, Designing lightweight planning tools (e.g. Change Canvases), Options and Experiment Board, Kanban Value-based Assessment, Approaches for scaling Kanban across the organization, Rollout phases for Kanban initiatives, Applying tools like Design Thinking and Value Proposition Designer for organizational change

Pre-Requisites

This class is best suited for people who currently use a Kanban system, or have prior experience with Kanban, or who are in the KMP training series currently, and/or who have consulting clients who use Kanban. Prior attendance at KMP Foundations I: Kanban System Design or any previous Lean Kanban University Foundations-level class such as Getting Started with Kanban or Certified Kanban Practitioner is preferred (required to achieve KMP status – see here). A wrap-up of the Kanban Method, part of the starter, helps all participants in leveling out to a common baseline.

Certificate

Participants receive the new “KMP II” certificate of participation via Lean Kanban University. If already having received a Foundation Level certificate (KMP I) they are then eligible to request the Kanban Management Professional (KMP) designation via LKU.

Should you still need your foundation level certificate, you can make use of Agile Experts’ special offer to participate in their KMP I classes (former Foundation Level) at a discount of 50%, including transfer coaching for your practical cases during and / or after the KMP I event (you will benefit a lot through the extensive STATIK exercises. Check our latest LKU training curriculum for more details.

In addition you qualify for 15 SEU (Scrum Education Units) of category C, relevant for a Scrum Alliance CSP certificate and for respective PDU’s as PMI member (e.g. for extending your PMP or to acquire the PMI-ACP certificate).

Included with Training Package

• “Advanced Level” (KMP II) Certificate of Participation via Lean Kanban University
• Membership in Lean Kanban University and a listing in the LKU Alumni Directory
• Official training materials (in electronic PDF Format)
• Fotos of all produced materials and posters
• Lunch as well as snacks and soft drinks during breaks
• Eligibility for special invitations, discounts and content only available to LKU members