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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 successfully completing 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, support teams, and anybody interested in improving how they live and work through the Kanban method. 

Pre-requisites

There is no prerequisite. However, reading Kanban Bluebook by David J Anderson or Essential Kanban Condensed is highly recommended. 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.

What'll you learn?

• 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 get in touch with 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

Kanban System Improvement Certification

( KSI/ KMP II)

This training systematically builds upon the foundations established in the Kanban System Design (KMP I) training. This course, known as Kanban Systems Improvement (KMP II), is the final course toward the Kanban Management Professional (KMP) credential.

Kanban Management Professional is an advanced-level course that will help participants build on their existing knowledge of the Kanban Method and will help them take their current Kanban implementation to the next level. 
This course is about evolving a system and expanding its reach using the Kanban method. During two days of interaction, in-depth learning, and intensive discussion, you will learn and expand your agility toolkit with new tools and techniques to successfully evolve the flow of your system using the Kanban Method.

Learning objectives:

• Managing Evolutionary Change
• Dealing with Resistance to Change
• Feedback Loops and Continuous Learning
• Implementing and Scaling out Kanban
• Balancing Demand and Capability
• Optimizing Flow and Predictability

Benefits:

1. Implement continuous improvement for sustainable customer satisfaction.
2. Career growth
3. Learn the alternative approach to agility

Who is This Course Best Suited for?

• Kanban Practitioners, Scrum Masters, and Agile Coaches
• Project and Portfolio Managers
• Product Managers, Product Owners, and Leaders
• Service Delivery Managers
• PMO and Program Directors
• Management Consultants
• Anyone who wants to develop Managerial skills

Course contents:

• Elevate, implement, and expand the Kanban systems across your organization through services and teams.
• Use the Kanban Lens to improve your services' performance and deliver value to customers.
• Introduction to Kanban Maturity Model and Kanban Maturity Levels