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Kanban: Gentle Change

Introduction: 
Learn about the gentle approach to improving organizational efficiency.
Learning Objective(s): 

Create a visible representation of your current process and work to make obstacles visible.

Agenda: 
  1. Introductions

    2. - Getting to know each other
    - Classroom expectations
    - Adult learning and accelerated learning (why aren't there any slides?)

  2. Principles of Kanban

    3. - History of Kanban
    - Visualize your work
    - Limit work in progress (WIP)
    - Measure lead time

  3. Kanban Processes and Practices Overview

    4. - What about all the 'details'?

  4. Task Board and Meetings

    5. - Item size
    - Optimization of flow
    - Exercise: Kanban vs. traditional methods

  5. Empirical Process

    6. - Feedback loop

  6. Metrics

    7. - Average lead time
    - Bottlenecks
    - Cumulative flow diagram
    - Questions to ask to improve process

  7. Kanban Simulation
  8. Teams

    9. - Self organizing
    - More than one product
    - Handling interruptions, changing plans

  9. Kanban, Lean and Agile

    10. - Foundations
    - Pull scheduling – JIT (lean)
    - Kaizen Principle – empirical – continuous improvement (lean)
    - Responding to change (Agile Manifesto)
    - Why adopt Kanban?
    - Why Kanban vs. other agile methods?

  10. Pre-Implementation to Implementation

    11. - Start with a retrospective
    - Launching teams
    - Addressing stakeholders
    - Construction of the first Kanban board
    - Setting the first WIP limit
    - Continual learning is the goal

  11. Workshop – Kanban and Your Work
  12. Q & A
Audience: 
General audience – anyone interested in making improvements to their current processes. No pre-requisites.
Facilitator(s): 
NicaPourfallah
PaulHeidema

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