Preface
Here is an overview of what to expect from this course.
We'll cover the following
Why this course?
Do you want to manage your work by balancing requests with available capacity and by enhancing the handling of system-level bottlenecks?
Kanban is your solution.
Kanban is a visual management tool that helps prevent the waste of overproduction and detects delays in the process or when processes are producing ahead of schedule.
With this course, I want to help you get started with Kanban at the team level by
combining our expertise as consultants with key principles from
Kanban can be a great help for modern software and other IT teams. However, many teams struggle to put these powerful principles and techniques into practice in their context.
Fortunately, a large number of authors have written about the key principles explained by David J. Anderson, which I have combined with my personal experience as a business consultant and a Lean and Agile coach in this practical guide to improving agility at the team level. So, if your team is an IT team or software development team, and you want to get started with Kanban, this course is for you. If you are not an IT team, you can still benefit from this course as long as you do knowledge work.
The course roadmap
The course begins with an introduction where the origins of Kanban as a method for designing and improving knowledge work are explained. In the chapters that come next, the fundamental concepts that you need to know to improve service delivery in your team are discussed, with a special emphasis on the principles of flow.
The central and most important part of this course is a review of the core practices of Kanban to successfully design a Kanban system at the team level, including an extensive chapter on how to use Kanban to improve your Scrum practice.
The final part is an introduction to the process of designing a Kanban system.
Enjoy!