Kanban Management Professional Certification (KSD+KSI)

Kanban Management Professional (KMP) Certification

Elevate Your Skills with the Kanban System Design + Kanban Systems Improvement Bundle!

Take your Kanban expertise to new heights with our exclusive bundle:

 Kanban System Design  

 April 15th - April 18th

Kanban Systems Improvement

 May 6th - May 9th

By completing both of these comprehensive trainings, you'll earn the esteemed Kanban Management Professional certification.

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Kanban System Design (KSD)

Learning Objectives

In this course, you will:

• Understand Kanban Fundamentals: Gain a thorough understanding of Kanban principles, including its core practices, workflow visualization, and pull-based systems.
• Master Kanban System Design: Develop the skills necessary to design and implement Kanban systems, including identifying work items, defining workflow stages, and setting work-in-progress limits.
• Implement Kanban Practices: Effectively implement Kanban practices within their organization, including managing flow, measuring performance, and continuously improving the system.
• Address Organizational Challenges: Identify and address common challenges faced during Kanban implementation, such as organizational resistance, cultural shifts, and alignment with existing processes.
• Become a Kanban Change Agent: Foster a culture of continuous improvement and agility within the organization, empowering teams to embrace Kanban principles and adapt to evolving demands.
  

Audience

This course is ideal for:

Kanban works across multiple functions of an organisation, from senior members of staff looking to adopt Lean Management to members of delivery teams willing to improve their working practices. Previous KSD attendees have been in roles such as:

• Senior Managers
• Program and Project Managers
• Product Managers, Product Owners and Business Analysts
• Scrum Masters, Team Leads and Change Agents
• Product & Software Developers & Testers
• Agile Coaches & Practitioners (Scrum, XP, DSDM, AgilePM, etc.)
• Other roles such as HR and Finance professionals

Kanban Systems Improvement (KSI) 

Description

In any workflow system there will be sources of delay, variability, and bottlenecks. Learn to proactively discover these challenges and then apply techniques to improve or smooth the flow of work.

You learned the basics of Kanban and how to design a single system in the Kanban System Design course. The next step on your journey is to learn how to scale out to multiple connected systems. In Kanban Systems Improvement, you will learn how to manage and optimize those systems using metrics and evolutionary change.

Objectives

In this course, you will:

•  Understand the basics, motivation, and benefits of evolutionary change.
• Scale out your system in multiple directions – upstream, downstream, connected to other systems.
• Learn how to run the Kanban cadences to manage and scale your system across your organization.
• Understand the sources of delays, variability, and what you can do to effectively manage them.
• Identify bottlenecks in a workflow and take actions to improve flow and reduce time to deliver or time to discover.
• Learn how to utilize key metrics such as Lead Time, Run Charts, and Cumulative Flow Diagrams to guide your continuous improvement using evolutionary change.

Audience

This course is ideal for:

Kanban works across multiple functions of an organisation, from senior members of staff looking to adopt Lean Management to members of delivery teams willing to improve their working practices. Previous KSD attendees have been in roles such as:

• Senior Managers
• Program and Project Managers
• Product Managers, Product Owners and Business Analysts
• Scrum Masters, Team Leads and Change Agents
• Product & Software Developers & Testers
• Agile Coaches & Practitioners (Scrum, XP, DSDM, AgilePM, etc.)
• Other roles such as HR and Finance professionals

Prerequisites

This course does not have any pre-requisites except reading chapter 4 and get the basis of Kanban previously. If you have attended a TKP course then you will be fine to start with KSD without previous reading.

Certification Credential:

All participants will receive a certificate of completion for the Kanban for Design and Innovation course.

Students who complete both, this course and the Kanban System Design (KSD) course, are eligible for the Kanban Management Professional (KMP) credential.

What will you receive:

• High-quality training with Accredited Kanban Trainer (AKT) Hugo Lourenço
• Online Course materials
• Membership of the Kanban University (KU)
• Kanban University (KU) certificate of course completion
• Access to exclusive Agile Thinkers Academy Digital library
• Agile Thinkers Academy Slack community
• Agile Thinkers Academy Certificate of Attendance

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