Kanban Management Professional 1 Training Course
The Kanban Management Professional 1 (KMP1) is a highly interactive two-day course that combines instruction, group discussions, and an immersive simulation to demonstrate how the Kanban Method helps individuals, teams, and organizations manage and improve the delivery of products and services to their customers.
The Kanban Method offers practical, actionable, evidence-based guidance for successful evolutionary change. It begins with your current processes and promotes gradual evolution while respecting existing roles, responsibilities, and job titles, and encouraging leadership at all levels. This approach allows organizations to gradually evolve business processes, define and use relevant metrics to track progress, and significantly reduce the risks associated with complex change programs.
By the end of this course, you will have a solid understanding of Kanban principles and general practices, along with the skills needed to confidently apply Kanban in your organization.
What Will You Learn?
- Identify internal and external sources of dissatisfaction
- Analyze demand versus capability
- Model the knowledge discovery process
- Design kanban systems and their visualizations
- Identify and prioritize improvements
- Choose cadences for activities
- Identify classes of service
Who Is This Course For?
This course is designed for anyone involved in product development or knowledge work, including but not limited to:
Programme and delivery managers
Product and project managers
Product developers, software developers, and testers
Operations and support staff
Business analysts
High-level management
Anyone interested in implementing Agile practices in their organization
Course Outline
Day 1
- Introduction to Kanban
- Definition of the Kanban Method
- Kanban in action: immersive Kanban simulation
- Using a kanban system: practical lessons from the simulation
Day 2
- Introduction to STATIK: Systems Thinking Approach To Introducing Kanban
- Identifying internal and external motivation for change
- Demand analysis for different types of work
- Mapping the workflow
- Discovering different classes of service
- Choosing system replenishment and delivery frequencies
- Designing a kanban system
To improve your learning experience this course uses non-technical exercises, simulations, a case study and discussions organised in small groups.
Requirements
None
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Testimonials (4)
Marek was so energetic and friendly which made the training more fun. He was well prepared.
Aydin Dagdelenler - Kuhne+Nagel IT Service Centre AS
Course - Kanban Management Professional 1
The practical exercise we did at the first day of the training helped a lot to understand the concept and apply the knowledge on game example
Julia Bulgakova - Kuhne+Nagel IT Service Centre AS
Course - Kanban Management Professional 1
Remote training is not easy, but I think the faciliator handled it well. The exercises do bring the theory home
Bobbie Crowther - Pernod Ricard
Course - Kanban Management Professional 1
The interactive sessions, debates and getting to use actual examples for the session
JACOLIEN VOGES - Pernod Ricard
Course - Kanban Management Professional 1
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