Agile Project Management with Kanban Training Course

The Kanban Management Professional 1 (KMP1) program is an intensive, two-day course designed to be highly interactive. It blends instruction, collaborative discussions, and a fully immersive simulation to demonstrate how the Kanban Method empowers individuals, teams, and organisations to manage and enhance the delivery of products and services to their customers.

Kanban offers pragmatic, actionable, and evidence-based guidance for driving successful evolutionary change. It begins with your current practices and fosters gradual improvement while respecting existing roles, responsibilities, and job titles, while encouraging leadership at every level. This approach enables organisations to gradually evolve business processes, define and utilise relevant metrics to track progress, and significantly mitigate the risks associated with complex change initiatives.

Upon completion of this course, you will possess a solid understanding of Kanban principles and general practices, along with the skills needed to apply Kanban with confidence within your organisation.

Learning Outcomes:
- Recognise internal and external sources of dissatisfaction
- Analyse the relationship between demand and capability
- Model the knowledge discovery process
- Design Kanban systems and their visual representations
- Identify and prioritise areas for improvement
- Select appropriate cadences for activities
- Identify classes of service

Target Audience:
This course is suitable 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
- Senior management
- Anyone interested in implementing Agile methodologies within their organisation

JIRA is a web application built on Java that offers project and issue tracking capabilities to enhance the agility of software development.

In this instructor-led live training, participants will learn how to leverage Jira to implement a Kanban approach within their organization's Agile framework.

Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to:

• Grasp the underlying principles of Agile and Kanban
• Utilize Jira to create and manage a Kanban project
• Customize Jira settings to align with organizational needs
• Execute basic and advanced search queries and analysis
• Generate and review reports

Audience

• Product managers
• Software developers
• Test engineers
• Business analysts

Format of the Course

• A blend of lectures, discussions, exercises, and extensive hands-on practice in a live-lab environment.

Note

• To arrange customized training for this course, please contact us.

Kanban is a method for managing workflows.

This instructor-led, live training (available online or on-site) is designed for participants at both beginner and advanced levels. The knowledge and tools acquired can be immediately applied to your daily work to enhance workflow efficiency.

Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to:

• Increase the volume of work items completed per unit of time.
• Reduce the time required to finish work items.
• Improve work predictability (providing more accurate responses to 'When will it be completed?').
• Manage flow metrics (throughput, lead time, work in progress, work item age).
• Utilize flow charts (Cumulative Flow Diagram, Lead Time Histogram, Work Aging Chart).
• Apply statistical forecasting methods, such as Monte Carlo simulations and Service Level Agreements.
• Design a Kanban System using the STATIK methodology.
• Understand Little's Law, which describes the nature of value flow.

Designed as a two-day intensive, this course empowers teams within an Agile Release Train (ART) to thrive in an Agile setting by leveraging frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, and XP. Attendees will gain insights into functioning effectively as an Agile Team, managing backlogs, and successfully planning and executing iterations. A key focus is placed on understanding the team’s critical role within the ART, including how to collaborate, plan, execute, and drive continuous improvement alongside neighboring teams.

The program prepares teams to engage fully in Program Increments (PI), addressing both Team-level and Program-level events with a strong emphasis on upcoming PI planning sessions. Upon completing the course, participants will be well-prepared to sit for the certification exam to achieve the SAFe® Practitioner (SP) credential.

Upon course completion, participants will be equipped to:

• Implement SAFe principles to scale Lean and Agile practices throughout the organization.
• Clarify their team’s role within the Agile Release Train and its contribution to broader organizational goals.
• Identify other teams within the train, recognizing their respective roles and interdependencies.
• Effectively plan and execute iterations.
• Demonstrate delivered value and drive ongoing process improvements.
• Actively participate in and contribute to Program Increment planning.
• Collaborate and integrate work seamlessly with other teams across the Agile Release Train.