Training Professional Scrum™ with Kanban
Scrum + Kanban = ❤️. Get the best of both approaches.
- Limit "work in progress" (WIP) and finish things
- Optimize flow and productivity during the Sprint
- Work with data instead of impressions and guesses
Who is the course for
The course serves for advanced optimization of an existing Scrum team's functioning using Kanban. It is suitable for experienced Scrum teams looking for ways to improve flow in the context of Scrum, DevOps and CI/CD.
- Members of Scrum teams overwhelmed by operations and parallel work
- Product Owners who want more reliable "predictability"
- Experienced Scrum Masters and agile coaches
For teams not working in Scrum, the course Applying Professional 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
- Little's Law
- Analysis of flow within the Sprint
- Effects of batch size on your flow
- Workflow visualization of the Sprint Backlog on a Kanban Board
- Simulation of Work In Progress effects on delivery
- Understanding "workflow policies" and their impact on flow
- Kanban in the context of Scrum
- Effects of Kanban on specific Scrum Events and roles
- Creating a Kanban Board
- Setting time expectations using Kanban metrics
Get a firm grip on flow
The course is interwoven with challenging situational exercises and simulations that demonstrate many elements and decisions from an ordinary workday and their immediate impact on flow.
For more information about the course, download the official datasheet.
