The Kanban Method is a highly comprehensive approach for driving real powerful business impact

Participants learn how to use Kanban for growing their business Agility, making their product and service delivery “fitter for purpose“ and running powerful approaches for change management.

Takeaways

• Learn how to effectively address the product and service strategy of your organization, the needs of various stakeholders and the involved business risk
• Apply techniques for balancing out customer demand, business risk and an organizations capability for dramatically improving your competitive position
• Design and/or improve your own Kanban systems based upon a powerful systems thinking approach for organizational development
• Prepare your own Kanban initiative to be rolled out or coached at your own organization or for your own clients
• Run various interactive games and simulations, maximizing your learning experience together with a highly experienced facilitator and also with your peers

Who is this for?

This LKU certified Kanban class is for anyone, who wants to lead making a product or service organization fitter for its competitive position. Whether you are a manager, product owner, Scrum Master, team member or coach – if you want to learn the full Kanban body of knowledge or deepen / refresh your knowledge around the Kanban method, this is the right place to be. The KMP I class is equally for starters and for all, who want to go really deep with Kanban, or want to expand their existing Kanban knowledge significantly. Read about the most current LKU Kanban Curriculum – the Alternative Path to Agility, this Kanban class builds upon (curriculum level: KMP I).

Training Content

• Setting the context for Kanban: how to foster business agility for organizations, projects, product and service delivery. Kanban concepts, principles, practices and values
• Elaborating internal and external drivers for change and generating improvement options
• Practical techniques for visualizing knowledge work in Kanban
• Understanding and applying WIP limits
• Business risk management via service classes
• Using metrics („fitness criteria“) and data-driven decisions for continuous improvement
• Designing feedback loops on different organizational levels
• Kanban system design for concrete Kanban systems
• Successfully starting and leading Kanban initiatives
• Aspects for integrating Kanban with other frameworks (e.g. Scrum, SAFe, ITIL)

Certificates

The class includes the LeanKanban University „KMP I – Kanban Systems Design“ certificate of completion. If you want to go further at a later stage, this enables you together with the KMP II class receive the new Kanban Management Professional (KMP) designation of Lean Kanban University. In addition, participants of this Kanban class are eligible for 16 SEU (Scrum Education Units) for their Scrum Alliance CSP certificate and 16 PDUs as PMI members (e.g. for extending their PMP or PMI-ACP certificate).

Included with the Training Package

• “KMP I – Kanban Systems Design” Certificate of completion via LeanKanban University
• Training materials (in electronic PDF format)
• Minutes of the class via a collection of photos
• Lunch as well as soft drinks and snacks during breaks