Kanban for Design and Innovation

COURSE BRIEF

Course Name:   Kanban for Design and Innovation   

Duration:           2 Days

Delivery Method: Classroom / Virtual Instructor-Led training

Course Overview

Shaping Customer Demand and Improving Upstream Kanban:

You’ve got your Kanban system to manage delivery up and running. Great! Yet you still struggle to handle the incoming stream of ideas and requests, and now want to maximize the value you get through the delivery.

The next step on your journey is to understand the multitude of options available to you through the Kanban for Design and Innovation (KDI) course. The KDI course focuses on the tools and techniques to successfully build and maintain end-to-end Kanban systems with a special focus on creating and improving the upstream design and innovation function.

Course Objectives

·        Learn how to scale Kanban wider across an enterprise.

·        Understand options and how this thinking helps to maximize value.

·        Learn techniques and approaches to actively manage incoming work.

·        Apply evolutionary change thinking when leading improvement in organizations.

·        Engage stakeholders from different organizational levels and departments in idea generation and decision making through pragmatic approaches.

·        Establish an Upstream Kanban system.

·        Apply Kanban practices upstream in order to establish a balance between the preparation and execution of options.

Taret Audience

The KDI course will address your pains and problems if:

·        You work as BA/PO and don’t feel KSI covers your part of the system fully.

·        You want to learn what’s before the commitment point and how to manage this work.

·        The upstream work is iterative or takes very long. You cannot visualize it as a pipeline.

·        Your backlog is 1,000 items. How should you know what to commit?

·        You ask how much time should you spend in upstream decreasing uncertainty? When can you start working on the requests?

·        You are product-focused and on the path to being a Kanban Management Professional (KMP).

Pre-Requisites

Attendees are expected to have read “Kanban” by David J Anderson or “Kanban from the Inside” by Mike Burrows. Prior attendance in the Kanban System Design class is strongly recommended.

Certified Training

All participants will receive a certificate of completion.

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