
Discover Kanban in a nutshell, blending theoretical foundations with practical basics, six practices, cadences, and roles, plus concrete tips for implementing Kanban in your team.
Manage flow by prioritizing smooth, predictable value movement through a Kanban system, emphasizing deferring commitment and the distinction between upstream and downstream Kanban to reduce lead time.
Learn how Kanban metrics drive decisions by analyzing lead time distributions and probability distributions, flow efficiency, and delivery rate, while distinguishing customer lead time from system lead time.
Explore the theory of constraints and how bottlenecks shape system performance, then apply the five focusing steps to identify, exploit, subordinate to, elevate, and repeat.
Apply Kanban cadences to collect feedback and guide decisions. Balance cadence frequency, focusing on replenishment and commitment, Kanban, and delivery planning meetings.
Review completed items from the done column, decide which to deliver to the main stockholders, and use daily Kanban updates to manage risks and smooth work in progress.
Visualize your workflow with a kanban board and implement proto kanban to reduce overload, limit work in progress, and gradually improve with a static system thinking approach.
Answer four questions with the Kanban litmus test to assess management change, customer interaction, contracts, and business model, recognizing an evolutionary, eventual improvement through the J curve.
A systematized knowledge pill about the Agile Kanban method of work, consisting of thematically related sections and modules. At the end of each of them there is a knowledge test verifying understanding of a given topic.
The course includes not only a detailed discussion of the basic elements of Kanban, such as:
Agendas
Sustainability Agenda
Service-Delivery Orientation
Survivability Agenda
Cadences
Replenishment
Kanban meeting
Delivery Planning Meeting
Practices
Work visualization
WIP Limit
Flow management
Explicit Policies
Implementing Feedback Loops
Improve Collaboratively, Evolve Experimentally
but also includes an additional chapter on implementing Kanban in the organization and team using the STATIK system method. You will also find scientific references to The Theory of Constraints, Little's Law and systems thinking, which is used in the Kanban method.
All modules, along with knowledge-testing questions, additional materials, practical tips and support from the author, constitute a coherent product that will help you understand what Kanban is and how to use this approach in practice. This course can be used by both beginners who have not heard this method before and those who want to systematize their knowledge.
The author of the course is an enthusiast and a long-time practitioner of the Agile approach, who gained his experience in various organizations and industries, building comprehensive, practical knowledge in this area.
For completing the course, a Udemy Certificate of Completion is awarded, confirming its finifhing and providing correct answers to the test questions.
If you are also interested in other methods under the umbrella of "Agile" see my other courses, e.g. about the basics of Scrum.