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Course Outline
Lean
- Principles of Lean Thinking
- The Five Core Principles of LEAN
- Applying Lean in Research & Development
- Systems Thinking (inspired by Deming)
- Plan-driven versus Value-driven approaches
- Empowering the Team
- Understanding the Innovation Curve
Agile
Why Agile?
- Comparing iterative methodologies
- Common reasons for project failures
- The Agile mindset and approach
- Understanding Scrum
- Roles: Pigs and Chickens
Product Owner
- Acting as the customer's representative
- Prioritizing product requirements
- Writing effective user stories
- Defining acceptance criteria
- Negotiating sprint content
- Group exercise: Deriving customer requirements and crafting corresponding stories
The Sprint
- Understanding the Sprint Backlog
- Sprint Planning: Determining what to accomplish
- Sprint Planning: Deciding how to accomplish it
- Activities during a sprint
- Utilizing Burn-down Charts
- Group exercise: Planning a sprint
Scrum Master
- Facilitating Grooming Meetings
- Implementing Scrum
- Ensuring adherence to best practices
- Maintaining documentation
- Conducting Standup Meetings
- Determining when to use Pair Programming
- Group exercise: Implementing Scrum practices
Concluding a Sprint
- Holding the Scrum Review Meeting
- Conducting the Scrum Retrospective
- Releasing the iteration
- Group exercise: Reviewing a completed sprint
Kanban
Command & Control vs. Agile
- The Factory Model
- Analogy: How Canon functions
- Analogy: How Missile functions
- Core Pillars of Kanban
- Viewing the Big Picture
Process
- Foundational concepts of Kanban
- Establishing Kanban Rules
- Key Metrics
- Creating Flow Diagrams
- + Technical practices
Teamwork
- Shared responsibility
- Self-organization
- Interdisciplinary collaboration
- Benefits of "right" teamwork
Kanban Board
- Visualizing the process
- Creating a Kanban Board
- Understanding and introducing WIP (Work in Progress) limits
- Understanding and introducing Classes of Service
Customer Engagement
- Identifying the most common forms of waste
- Mapping the Value Stream
Waste
- Value Stream Mapping techniques
- Analyzing waste
- Core concepts of Kaizen (MUDA, MURI, MURA)
- Analyzing bottlenecks
- The Five Focusing Steps
Product Discovery Methods and Tools
- The Golden Circle
- Impact Mapping
- Design Thinking
- User Story Mapping
21 Hours
Testimonials (2)
Marek has good contact with attenders catch when the people are not focused and work to motivate team.
piotr mokrzycki - GE Medical Systems Polska Sp. Z O.O.
Course - Managing Agile Projects with Lean and Kanban
That after 3 days of training I have the entire overview on Agile how to use them in my case, how to calculate efficiency, approach negative employees and many more.