KMP 2 - Kanban System Improvements (KSI)

Once you have started to implement Kanban within your team, we now have to think about how we scale this across your teams and organisation. This will enable you to build an adaptive capability that enables you to respond effectively to changes in customer demand and the business environment.

Description

In the fast-moving and complex times, organisations are looking for every advantage they can find to increase their competitive edge. Kanban is a set of values, practices and principles that bring the benefits of Lean theory to organisations.

Benefits include;

  • increasing the flow of value
  • visualising and establishing an optimum workload for the team's capacity
  • reducing waste
  • creating better organisational alignment
  • building a culture of engaged workers

The Kanban method focuses on making incremental, iterative changes that evolve business processes into more efficient and manageable work streams while avoiding the risks associated with complex change programs.

What topics are covered?

  • Motivation for the Kanban Method
  • Resistances to change
  • Introduction to the Kanban Maturity Model (KMM)
  • Understanding Kanban Systems
  • The Kanban Method
  • STATIK
  • Scaling out Kanban across the organisation, using a case study
  • Upstream Kanban Systems
  • Kanban roles
  • Feedback loops to improve service delivery
  • Conducting the Kanban cadences
  • Understanding Lead time
  • Removing delays
  • Understanding dependencies
  • Understanding variability
  • Managing bottlenecks
  • An evolutionary approach to change management

What is the Course Schedule?

The course will run from 10:00 to 4:00. There will also be regular breaks for tea and coffee and to stretch your legs.

Will I need any equipment for the Course?

The most obvious thing you will need is a good WiFi and Internet connection with a nice quiet environment for you to both hear and also interact with your fellow course attendees and us lovely trainers! Don't worry about the odd child/dog/cat/partner wondering past or interrupting occasionally, we'll just roll with it :-)

We recommend a laptop or desktop with good sound and microphone. Course participants have struggled on phones and tablets. We will be using Zoom for the video conference functionality with a waiting room and password configured to provide a reasonable level of security. If you can, we recommend installing the Zoom app on your device but the web version should work as a plan B.

What will you receive?

This course has been accredited by David J Anderson (creator of the Kanban method) and Kanban University (KU). Each attendee will receive a certificate.

Those attendees taking a KU-accredited course will be eligible to become members of the Kanban University. To read about the benefits and learn more, visit the KU website.

Attendees who complete both KMP1 & KMP2 classes are eligible for the Kanban Management Professional designation. Students who do not complete the official KMP1 training through the KU, will not receive this. Please ask if you are not sure.

An electronic version of course slides, materials and workshop output will also be provided after the course closes.

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