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Team Kanban Practitioner Certification

(TKP)

In the two-half-a-day Team Kanban Practitioner (TKP) course, you will learn the core concepts of the Kanban method on how to successfully organize your work while improving visibility, communication, and collaboration. This training creates a shared learning experience where you will come away from the TKP course with a high-level understanding of what it means to be on a Kanban team.

Overview of the course

• What is Kanban?
• Experiencing interactive Kanban simulation
• Kanban principles and practices
• Introduction to Kanban charts
• Applying Kanban in a team
• How to proceed to the next level with Kanban

What'll you learn?

Students learn how to be effective within a Kanban team. In this class, you will learn the six core practices, how to run daily Kanban meetings, and how to proceed to the next level with Kanban. Students will understand Kanban fundamentals and principles such as:

• Implementing Kanban to manage work in progress and regulate workflow
• Using Lean thinking to remove waste from product development
• Designing a Kanban board to visualize your value streams for efficient work management
• Creating “pull” systems to minimize work in progress and eliminate waste
• Applying Team Kanban
• Certification - Upon successful completion of our TKP course, students will be credentialed as Team Kanban Practitioners (TKPs). The TKP certification is governed and maintained by Kanban University.

Who should attend?

This class is great for leadership, marketing, research and development, product development, and support teams, as well as anybody interested in improving the way they live and work through the Kanban method. 

Prerequisites

There is no prerequisite. However, it is highly recommended to read Kanban Bluebook by David J Anderson or Essential Kanban Condensed. You can download a free digital copy here!

Kanban System Design Certification

( KSD/ KMP I)

The Kanban Method is a management method to improve service delivery, catalyze improvements and evolve a business to be “fit for purpose.” In this class, we will cover simple concepts that are powerful in helping you organize, understand and manage your work. 

You will learn how to design a Kanban system and initiate evolutionary change with Kanban. You will learn the basic concepts of flow, pull, and collaborative improvement. You will also learn how to become faster and more responsive through better risk management and governance. You will gain practical insights on how to understand your systems of work so that you can implement or improve Kanban within your organization.

Learning Objectives:  

• Learn the Principles and Practices of the Kanban Method 
• Experience the flow of a Kanban system 
• Learn how to identify work item types and classes of service 
• Utilize the Systems Thinking Approach to Introducing Kanban (STATIK) to understand your systems of work and how to design your initial Kanban system
• Learn the fundamentals of visual board design and card design

Schedule

This online class is designed to be conducted on four consecutive days or over 2 consecutive weekends.

Please contact us for alternative options if the dates do not match your schedule.

Who should attend this course?

This class is ideal for anyone who wants to learn new techniques for visualizing and managing their workflow to deliver value. This includes, but is not limited to, leadership, marketing, research and development, product development, and support teams.

If you are in any of these roles, you will significantly benefit by attending this course:

• Project and Program Manager
• Team leads, Managers
• Development leads
• Business Analysts, Scrum Product Owners, Scrum Masters
• Team Members