Applying Professional Kanban
3 Days
·Cohort-based Course
Learn the basic principles of flow and how to use them to make your team process more efficient, predictable, and effective.
Applying Professional Kanban
3 Days
·Cohort-based Course
Learn the basic principles of flow and how to use them to make your team process more efficient, predictable, and effective.
Course overview
Optimize flow to improve your team's ability to deliver value
Kanban is fast becoming the modern way to manage an organization’s delivery of customer value. In today’s always-on environment, you need a clear set of practices that don’t get in the way of your ability to continuously deliver but that provides enough structure to keep everyone aligned and focused. This three-day course will give you an in-depth introduction to improving your team’s effectiveness by applying Kanban flow principles.
In this class, you will learn the basic principles of flow and how to use them to make your team process more efficient, predictable, and effective. With an emphasis on the practical application of concepts, this course includes many hands-on exercises that will lead you through the steps of setting up and operating a Kanban system for continuous value delivery and improvement.
This course is delivered in 3 sessions of 5 hours each (12PM to 5PM EDT) over 3 consecutive days.
Validated Learning for Certification
After taking the course, you will have an opportunity to validate that you understand core Kanban topics. We will invite you to take an online assessment that evaluates your understanding and provides you with guidance on areas to improve.
Who is this course for
01
Scrum Masters, Agile Delivery Leads, Agile Coaches
02
Team Members, Team Leads, Engineering Managers, Engineers
03
Product Owners, Product Managers
What you’ll get out of this course
Explain the basic principles of flow
Describe the value of WiP limits
Create a visual board to manage your work
Capture and interpret key flow metrics and analytics to find improvement opportunities
Explain why flow should be focused on value delivery
Define, build, operate and continuously improve a Kanban system
Applying Professional Kanban
Course schedule
15 hours
Aug 22 - Aug 24, 2023
12:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
Meet your instructor
Marie Dingess
Marie began her Tech career 22 years ago as an engineer with a Fortune 100 company. After many different roles within Technology, her passion for people, process, and technology led her to Agile Coaching and Portfolio Management.
Marie identifies organizational themes of taking on too much work, which actually slows product delivery. She is a certified ProKanban Trainer (PKT) and has a track record of helping organizations & teams achieve more throughput, sustainable pace, improved prioritization, and an increased ownership of their process.
In addition to speaking at various industry events, Marie gives back to the Agile community by mentoring Release Train Engineers and Scrum Masters to achieve their career goals.
Betsy Irizarry
Betsy Irizarry is a Business Agility and Organizational Effectiveness coach who works with teams and organizations as they pursue better customer outcomes and improved ways of working. She is a certified ProKanban Trainer (PKT) with a proven track record of working cross-functionally as a facilitator, trainer, and coach who helps align people, systems, and processes to achieve challenging goals. She founded FreshTilt in 2017 with a vision to help teams find their “fresh perspective.”
Betsy has a true passion for people and partnership: she seeks to get to know people and understand their context in order to collaboratively identify approaches that lead to the best outcomes.
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