Agile Project Management with Kanban Training Course

Kanban Management Professional 1 (KMP1) is a highly interactive two-day course that combines teaching, group discussions and a fully immersive simulation to illustrate how the Kanban Method helps individuals, teams, and organisations to manage and improve the delivery of products and services to their customers.

The Kanban Method provides pragmatic, actionable, evidence-based guidance for successful evolutionary change. 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 organisations to evolve business processes gradually, define and use relevant metrics to measure progress, and significantly reduce the risks associated with complex change programmes.

You will leave this course with knowledge of the Kanban principles and general practices, and skills that will enable you to apply Kanban with confidence in your organisation.

What Will You Learn?
- Identify internal and external sources of dissatisfaction
- Analyse demand vs capability
- Model the knowledge discovery process
- Design kanban systems and their visualisations
- Identify and prioritise improvements
- Choose cadences for activities
- Identify classes of service

Who Is This Course For?
Anyone who is involved in product development or knowledge work. This includes but is not limited to the following:
Programme and delivery managers
Product and project managers
Product developers, software developers and testers
People working in operations or support
Business analysts
High-level management
Anyone interested in implementing Agile in their organisation

JIRA is a Java-based web application designed to provide project and issue tracking, enhancing the agility of software development.

During this instructor-led live training, participants will learn how to utilize Jira to implement a Kanban approach to Agile within their organization.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Comprehend the principles underlying Agile and Kanban methodologies
• Utilize Jira to create and manage a Kanban project
• Customize Jira to align with their organization's specific requirements
• Conduct basic and advanced searches and analysis
• Generate and review reports

Audience

• Product managers
• Software developers
• Test engineers
• Business analysts

Format of the Course

• Combination of lectures, discussions, exercises, and extensive hands-on practice in a live-lab environment.

Note

• To request customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange it.

Kanban serves as a workflow management methodology.

This instructor-led, live training (available online or onsite) is designed for participants at both introductory and advanced levels. The insights and tools covered here can be directly applied to your daily operations to enhance workflow efficiency.

Upon completing this training, participants will be equipped to:

• Boost the volume of work items finished within a given timeframe.
• Shorten the duration needed to complete work items.
• Enhance work predictability (enabling more accurate responses to "When will it be completed?").
• Monitor flow metrics (including throughput, lead time, work in progress, and work item age).
• Employ flow charts (Cumulative Flow Diagram, Lead Time Histogram, Work Aging Chart).
• Apply statistical forecasting techniques, such as Monte Carlo simulations and Service Level Agreement.
• Design a Kanban System methodologically (using STATIK).
• Comprehend Little's Law, which explains the characteristics of value flow.

Spanning two days, this course is crafted to assist teams within an Agile Release Train (ART) in operating efficiently within an Agile setting by leveraging frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, and XP. Participants will gain insight into functioning as an Agile Team, managing backlogs, and successfully planning and executing iterations. A key focus is placed on comprehending the team's position within the ART and how to collaborate, plan, execute, and foster continuous improvement in tandem with other teams.

The training equips teams to engage in Program Increments (PI), addressing both Team-level and Program-level events, with specific attention to upcoming PI planning sessions. Finishing the course also readies participants for the certification exam to attain the SAFe® Practitioner (SP) credential.

Upon course completion, participants will be able to:

• Implement SAFe principles to extend Lean and Agile practices throughout the organization.
• Comprehend their team’s role within the Agile Release Train and its contribution to broader objectives.
• Identify other teams within the train, including their roles and interdependencies.
• Effectively plan and execute iterations.
• Showcase delivered value and continuously enhance processes.
• Participate in and contribute to Program Increment planning.
• Collaborate and integrate efforts with other teams within the Agile Release Train.