PK I - Applying Professional Kanban

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 two-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.

We bring you this course in collaboration with ScrumDōjō.

The APK course is for anyone who wants to improve their ability to deliver value and be more effective. Typical attendee roles include business analysts, team members, team leads, agile coaches, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, project managers and product managers.

• Kanban theory, principles and practices
• Effectiveness vs efficiency and predictability
• Little's law
• Analysis of the flow of your work
• Batch size effects on your flow
• Workflow visualization on the Kanban Board
• Simulation of work in progress effects on delivery
• Understanding "workflow policies" and their impact on flow
• Creating a Kanban Board
• Setting time expectations using Kanban metrics

After completing the training, within five working days, participants receive a voucher to take up one Professional Kanban I exam for certification. The PK I exam is composed of closed multiple-choice questions. You need to get at least 85% to pass the exam. Most of our students have no problem with passing this exam, provided they have a good command of English. If you take the exam within 14 days from receiving your voucher but obtain negative results, Scrum.org will provide you another voucher for one additional attempt to the given exam.

Materials are in electronic form.

After attending the course, learners will be able to:

• 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