Kanban System Design Public Training - Amsterdam

Who Should Attend/Prerequisites

This hands-on course is appropriate for all team members looking for ways to improve their development processes. Some contexts that can particularly benefit from a Kanban System include:

• A complex mix of project and demand based work, common in maintenance and operations/infrastructure
• A need to be able to respond quickly and release on demand, common in media organizations
• Frequent or significant wait states in the development process, such as vendor dependencies or internal approvals
• A need to align with alternative methodologies used in the organization
• A formal phase-gate approach to work required by regulatory compliance
• Many highly specialized roles, such as mixes of software, mechanical and electrical engineering

Class Size Limit: 20 (Minimum 10)

Course Overview

This two-day course is designed to enable creation of a Kanban System. The training steps beginners through the fundamentals of Lean Thinking and Kanban Systems and shows how to design an appropriate representation of a process enabling continuous improvement activities.

Upon completion of the course, you will be able to:

• describe how your current process meets your organizational needs
• tailor your process with a set of well-understood and explicit policies
• explore opportunities to improve your effectiveness, coordination and reliability
• provide clear visibility of your work, its status, and progress
• measure your work in order to gain knowledge and continue to improve

Agenda

The agenda is designed to help you move from understanding where you are now, to designing a Kanban System to enhance your current process and then on to evolving new and improved processes and practices. We step through the following four sections which will enable you to perform the related activities.

1. Exploring the current reality
   1. Map the existing workflow
   2. Identify classes of service and demand
   3. Discover the organisational context
2. Executing using continuous flow
   1. Explain the basics of Kanban
   2. Experience a flow based system
   3. Perform incremental improvement activities
   4. Recognise queuing theory aspects of a system
3. Instantiating a Kanban System
   1. Share an existing system as an explicit Kanban System
   2. Allocate investment and set work-in-process limits for a system
   3. Define cadences and synchronisation points
4. Evolving a Kanban System
   1. Contrast different mindsets and approaches towards evolving systems
   2. Use A3s and equivalent techniques to produce effective change exploration plans
   3. Apply metrics and charts to evaluate the performance of the system
   4. Quantify potential benefits of improvements

Cost:

$1,180.00 per attendee.

Early Bird Registration - By 10-29-2012 $1,000.00 per attendee