Applying Professional Kanban - certification and training at ScrumDojo.cz

Who is the course for

An introduction to Kanban, which organizations increasingly seek out to optimize work and delivery, increase transparency, and especially predictability.

Teams delivering products, projects or services
Operational teams in any domain
IT Operations and maintenance teams
Managers, team leaders, agile coaches and Scrum Masters

Kanban is also useful in many areas of organizational life with a more operational nature of work, e.g.:

Marketing and sales
Loan approvals, underwriting
Recruitment
IT Operations, IT Security
Support

For teams in a Scrum context, the course Professional Scrum™ with Kanban may be more suitable.

What will you learn

How reducing "work in progress" will improve your efficiency
Visualize and especially actively manage your workflow
Kanban metrics, practices and charts to optimize your process
Probabilistic approach to estimates and setting time expectations

Topics

Theory, principles and practices of Kanban
Efficiency vs. effectiveness and predictability
Little's Law
Analysis of your work flow
Effects of batch size on your flow
Workflow visualization on a Kanban Board
Simulation of Work In Progress effects on delivery
Understanding "workflow policies" and their impact on flow
Creating a Kanban Board
Setting time expectations using Kanban metrics

Create your own Kanban Board

During the course there will be plenty of space to analyze your specific flow in your team or organization and with the instructor's help you will create your own Kanban Board that you can start using the very next day.

Kanban Board

Certification

Professional Kanban I

Globally recognized PK1 certification exam proves your excellent knowledge of the Kanban strategy according to the official Kanban Guide.

80 questions / 60 minutes
Minimum passing score: 85%
Lifetime validity

If you attempt the assessment within 14 days after the course and fail to pass, you will get another attempt for free.

For more information about the course, download the official datasheet.

Your trainer Richard "Riki" Ross

Riki is a senior team coach, agile transformation consultant, Scrum trainer, and Kanban expert.

He has experience with both traditional project management in custom software development environments, as well as agile approaches, Scrum, and Kanban. He has worked with dozens of teams, whether development, or operational.

When working with teams, he places great emphasis on autonomy and self-management.

He is an active member of international communities around Scrum, Kanban, and LeSS.

What is ScrumDōjō

Our mission is to create conditions for meaningful work on meaningful products. Agility is the means. It helps improve customer value and the ability of product organizations to create it.

We believe that continuous contact between product teams and customers, a culture of experimentation, and high transparency are the most important ingredients for building successful products.

We develop and educate agile product organizations