Kanban System Design

It is a starting point towards an ability to build a system that will be fit for its need. This class will create sufficient skills to start using Kanban in your organization and team as a tool to visualize issues in your systems and improve them to perfection.Target Audience:This program is designed for professionals who are responsible for process optimization, business performance, and project management: managers, IT directors, heads of departments, middle managers, team leaders, project managers, technical managers, engineers, and anyone who is interested in the results of the work of the various groups of people. Also, this training will be useful to ScrumMasters, who want to help their teams to get to the next level.Training is particularly suitable for those who:

• want to start working with Kanban systems and look for initial support
• are already using a Kanban system and want to check whether its implementation matches to the best practices in the industry and get new ideas to improve their system.

Besides that, training helps synchronize understanding of Kanban for all participants and introduces a common “language” of terms – equally understand the terms, practices, and, most importantly, the purpose of process improvement using Kanban systemsProgram:

• Overview of the Kanban method
  • History, principles, values
• Internal and external sources of variability and dissatisfaction with the process
• Analysis between system’s demand and capacity
• Risk management with Kanban: Classes of Service
• Kanban system design
  • Ticket design
  • Kanban boards design
  • Limiting work in progress (WIP)
  • Making policies explicit
• Queues, flow control, metrics, measurements
  • Little’s Law
  • Cumulative Flow Diagram
  • Lead time distribution chart
  • Control chart
• Meetings in Kanban
• A full-scale simulation of Kanban system